Google plans to release a new set of Android-based payment developer tools at its I/O conference in May, according to a report by the tech news site Ars Technica.

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday formally signed off on the creation of a national intelligence center to share information about cyber threats.

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday formally signed off on the creation of a national intelligence center to share information about cyber threats.

Machine-learning provider Feedzai has implemented upgrades to the fraud detection service API it released in November, the company announced Feb. 25.

Barclays is updating its Pingit person-to-person payment app to enable it to use Twitter usernames to identify recipients.

Merchants opposed to the U.S. migration to EMV-chip cards have long questioned whether the security benefit is worth the expense of putting in new payment terminals. American Express is taking some of the cost out of the equation, but even this move might not be enough to bring most merchants on board.

PreCash Inc. has added Visa and MasterCard acceptance to its Evolve Money mobile bill-pay app.

Gemalto reassured investors this morning that the alleged attacks by U.S. and U.K. government agents only breached the company's office network and could not have led to theft of encryption keys, which are considered an important part of digital payments security.

American Express Co., the lender that lost one of its biggest retailer partnerships and suffered a defeat in an antitrust lawsuit this month, is raising interest rates on a swath of credit cards for the first time in more than five years.

Brazil's embrace of digital commerce is providing juice for Santander's university smart-card program, which is growing by leaps and bounds as it lays the groundwork for the mobile channel.

Consumers in North Dakota are far less likely to experience an incident of e-commerce fraud than those living in West Virginia. Knowing this informs Forter's monitoring of e-commerce fraud.

IBM will assist Citi's Mobile Challenge competition, the two announced Tuesday.

The heightened regulatory environment for servicers has also prompted a wave of process improvements.

AUSTIN, Texas —Some have referred to 2014 as "The Year of the Breach," but we could be headed for "The Decade of the Breach," if all the stakeholders, including financial institutions and their regulators, don't speed up their efforts to head off mounting security threats.AUSTIN, Texas —Some have referred to 2014 as "The Year of the Breach," but we could be headed for "The Decade of the Breach," if all the stakeholders, including financial institutions and their regulators, don't speed up their efforts to head off mounting security threats.

Bluefin Payment Systems, a technology vendor based in Georgia, will provide mobile point-to-point encryption technology to Infinite Peripherals, a point of sale system provider.

Visa Europe will introduce tokenization part of a new mobile payment service it plans to launch in April.

MasterCard has deployed Host Card Emulation-based mobile wallets in more than 15 countries.

To stay ahead of the curve, business leaders must take advantage of every resource at their disposal, and many are looking outside the walls of their organization for new ways to spark the flame of innovation for the next big idea.

Host Card Emulation, the technology that allows contactless mobile payments without access to a phone's secure element, could bust the barrier that still lingers between mobile payments and loyalty.

OnDeck Capital, the online lender whose initial public offering raised eyebrows in December, posted a net loss of $4.3 million for the fourth quarter in its first report as a public company.