As the federal tax filing deadline approaches next month, tax-related scams are heating up.

Fast-developing technologies are dumping fresh risk on a payments industry already reeling from a parade of data breaches, placing more pressure on cross-industry efforts to improve security.

Matt Swann, who was in charge of Amazon Register and the defunct Amazon Wallet, has left Amazon.com for a role at Citigroup, according to a report by TechCrunch.

The mobile wallet market takes no prisoners. Startups and big companies have an even playing field, and many have already scrapped one or more products — while others have given up the fight entirely.

In just one week, Swedish company Seamless has expanded its SEQR mobile payment service to three more countries in Europe.

UnionPay International, a Shanghai-based subsidiary of China UnionPay, has launched a rewards program with duty free businesses at airports around the world.

Large banks and card issuers are ready for the U.S. shift to chip-and-PIN technology, according to a report issued Wednesday. But the drop in fraud that is expected to result is unlikely to come any time soon.

BOULDER CITY, Nev. — While most credit unions say they would like to attract younger members, Boulder Dam CU reports a remarkable 85% penetration of 18-to-29 year olds in its field of membership.

When people think about financial inclusion, their minds tend to go first to highly-publicized unbanked regions in Africa and parts of Asia. But many people in other parts of the world, including the U.S., lack access to traditional financial services.

In the Chinese payment processing space, which is dominated by government-controlled entities such as UnionPay, the dynamic of pursuing new customers is markedly different from in the U.S. This point was a key factor when investment firm TA Associates chose to invest in YeePay, a company with limited ambitions.

Everlink Payment Services has created a prototype wearable payment device that works with Interac Flash.

Flint Mobile is joining the many technology companies that are evolving from their roots as payment providers to become enablers of a broad range of services.

Four House lawmakers announced Thursday that they had formed a bipartisan group to focus on "the new and innovative technologies in the payments industry."

Some "friendly fraud" is more manipulative than friendly. Global Risk Technologies wants to help merchants appeal more chargebacks and get back some of the billions of dollars lost to friendly fraud.

Target Corp. agreed to settle with more than 100 million customers whose personal information may have been breached in a database hack in 2013, among the biggest to hobble retailers and banks in recent years.

American Express Co., the lender that cut ties with one of its biggest retailer partners last month, agreed to a multiyear venture with Charles Schwab Corp. to create two co-branded credit cards.

Target agreed to settle with more than 100 million customers whose personal information may have been breached in a database hack in 2013, among the biggest to hobble retailers and banks in recent years.

HAGERSTOWN, Ind. — Perfect Circle Credit Union signed with Member Driven Technologies, and said it will convert its core processing to Symitar Episys via the CUSO's solution.

Large financial institutions and card issuers are ready for the U.S. shift to chip-and-PIN technology, according to a report issued Wednesday. But the drop in fraud that is expected to result is unlikely to come any time soon.

The Mandarin Oriental hotel chain recently became the latest big business to suffer a data breach, sounding a call to the hospitality business to shore up security posture.