Bankers are increasingly concerned that an optional cybersecurity assessment tool released by regulators this summer could soon become mandatory.

The fleet card provider WEX has agreed to acquire software-as-a-service technologies provider Benaissance.

Financial instituitons are increasingly concerned that an optional cybersecurity assessment tool released by regulators this summer could soon become mandatory.

Barclaycard and travel site priceline.com have extended their co-branding agreement, which means consumers can still get a credit card with pitchman William Shatner's face on it.

Starbucks and Square, once the hottest couple of the payments world, are splitting up. But their relationship was never perfect; signs of trouble were obvious from the very start.

No wonder Jack Dorsey wants to keep running Square. Dorsey, the payment company's chief executive officer who also just took on the same role at Twitter, is the largest shareholder in Square by a wide margin, with 24.4 percent. The investment firm Khosla Ventures is the second-largest with 17.3 percent, according to Square's registration for an initial public offering filed Oct. 14.

While Sony Corp. is scaling back its global smartphone ambitions, the company still wants to contend with Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. on mobile payments in Asia. Its method for getting there is public transportation.

As mobility has become embedded in the world’s cultures, issuers are feeling the heat to create their own mobile apps, but in an era of non-top data breaches and increasing identity theft, security fears abound.

MasterCard's Craig Vosburg is trying to improve the quality of life in cities around the world.

Some 75% of chief information officers plan to increase spending on security technology next year, with many anticipating jumps in security budgets of 20% or more.

When Netflix announced that its new U.S. subscriber count had declined 10.2% year-over-year, it blamed the "ongoing transition to chip-based credit and debit cards." And the video-streaming company may not be the only victim of this phenomenon.

The National Credit Union Administration and Federal Trade Commission are taking to Twitter to advise consumers on warding off cyberattacks.

First Data Corp. raised $2.56 billion in its initial public offering, pricing the shares below the marketed range.

Visa hopes to cut through the chaos that surrounds security threats by creating an intelligence service to distill and deliver information on vulnerabilities and potential attacks.

The EMV standards will change card security. But what may have more impact on the bottom line is churn.

The chiefs of Fiserv, FIS and TCS Financial Solutions explain how they continue meeting customers' current needs while preparing for the inevitable day when those needs radically change.

Square, the mobile-payments company founded and led by Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, filed for an initial public offering.

Capital One Financial Corp. introduced a tap-to-pay mobile-payments service, becoming the first major U.S. bank to offer such functionality in competition with Google Inc.'s Android Pay.

Consumers may not be adopting contactless mobile payments in droves, the tech companies behind the world's most popular smartphones are piling on the mobile wallet bandwagon.

FIDO, the payments security consortium dedicated to improving authentication, has added American Express to the alliance and to its board of directors, with existing members Infineon and VASCO also joining the board.