Georgia’s Own Credit Union has expanded its relationship with Fiserv by selecting DNA and more than a dozen additional solutions to support the $1.9 billion credit union’s growth in new commercial services and lending markets.

Prosper Marketplace, one of the nation’s largest marketplace lenders, has agreed to purchase the consumer finance app maker BillGuard.

A task force convened by the Federal Reserve has made substantial progress in its first few months, but the path to real-time payment in the U.S. is still littered with challenges.

Small merchants may not have a full grasp of EMV chip card acceptance at the point of sale as the Oct. 1 liability shift nears in the U.S., but e-commerce merchants are building layers of defense for the expected spike in online fraud.

A task force convened by the Federal Reserve has made substantial progress in its first few months, but the path to real-time payment in the U.S. is still littered with challenges.

Mobile and e-commerce payments provider Loviit has expanded to the United Kingdom, where it hopes to reach merchants with global ambitions.

DD4BC, a group that threatens to knock out corporate websites unless it is paid off in bitcoins, has expanded its denial-of-service attacks on banks.

Canadian credit union cooperative Desjardins Group is offering mobile credit and debit card readers for small businesses.

Atlanta-based bitcoin payment processor BitPay has suffered a phishing attack costing the company $1.8 million.

Small to medium sized businesses are often cast as unprepared for the card network's October deadline for EMV-chip card migration. But how bad can it really be?

Five credit unions are beta testing a Small Business Administration-compliant lending tool as part of a partnership between the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions and Minneapolis-based Community Reinvestment Fund, USA.

Circle Internet Financial, the Bitcoin services company and wallet provider, has become the first company to receive a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services.

Retailers beware: Starbucks is changing consumers' expectations in mobile payments yet again.

With more than 20 teams officially knocked out of the competition, eight semi-finalists are still standing in PSCU’s Fourth Annual KnockOut Innovation Summit.

The convenience store chain 7-Eleven will let consumers pay bills at its stores through an app from PayNearMe.

High fashion and contactless payments collided this week on the catwalk at the London Fashion Week event as Near Field Communication rings stole the show.

The U.S. restaurant industry is still challenged to fit EMV-chip card payments into an ordering and payment structure built around cash and magstripe cards. The vendor MyCheck sees this uncertainty as an opportunity to win restaurants over to its mobile payment system.

In a new book, PayPal founder and former exec Elon Musk argues that big thinking is missing from PayPal and payment startups. Put another way, NFC and QR codes won't repair the global economy. The problem is Musk’s big picture approach is it would challenge interoperability and ultimately stagnate the very industry he’s trying to save.

Mobile carriers would seem a natural fit for mobile payments in face-to-face sales, but the phone companies may be better suited for a long-distance relationship with retailers.

Can true innovation happen when so much of the industry is still working on systems built in the 20th century?