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.

Google is buying some technology and intellectual property from the rival Android-based mobile wallet Softcard, giving Google a chance to finally put to bed several business problems that have plagued the company since it launched its mobile wallet in 2011.

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — Member Driven Technologies has completed its first two conversions of 2015, as one CU in Michigan and another in Montana converted their core processing to Symitar Episys via the CUSO's solution.

Home meal-prep delivery company PeachDish is working with Bitcoin processor BitPay to enable payments in the virtual currency.

Responding to reports last week that its encryption keys had been stolen by U.S. and British spies five years ago, Gemalto contends its products are secure and announced it would reveal results of its investigation into the claims at a press conference Feb. 25 in Paris.

Responding to reports last week that its encryption keys had been stolen by U.S. and British spies five years ago, Gemalto contends its products are secure and announced it would reveal results of its investigation into the claims at a press conference Feb. 25 in Paris.

MasterCard is aggressively pursuing emerging markets, and in early February opened a technology hub in Pune, India to compete with the entrenched domestic payment networks.

A technology-savvy German bank's plan to open a branchless banking platform in the U.S. could eventually pave the way for more mainstream use of cryptocurrency platforms, such as Ripple and Bitcoin.