When it comes to mobile banking technology firm Digital Insight's new replacement for passwords, the "eyes" have it.

BBVA Compass is planning to issue a new credit card in partnership with American Express and the National Basketball Association.

Starbucks' decision to support Apple Pay within the coffee chain's mobile payment app seems like a natural alliance of two major forces in mobile payments, but it raises a significant question: Why not do the same with Square, with which Starbucks has much deeper ties?

In a wide-ranging interview, the head of the Cleveland Fed talks about her support for a two-tiered regulatory system, the biggest threats facing the system, interest-rate risk, culture and cybersecurity.

Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union is leveraging the most romantic holiday on the calendar with its "Capture My Heart" promotion.

The Federal Reserve Board has raised several concerns about the interbank fee that is part of an industry group's plan to make funds available to consumers on the same day. It's another speed bump in the road to modernizing the U.S. payment system.

Paying for goods and services over the Internet in a variety of ways, from directly keying-in card details on ecommerce sites, to using online wallets, to paying with your phone, is more consumer friendly than ever.

Apple is well known for its "reality distortion field," a term applied to products that seem to appeal more because of Apple's aura of coolness than for the actual features of the product. But Apple Pay is not a case of Apple suddenly making mobile payments cool — consumers were already on board with the technology, even if they didn't know what to call it.

The Australian market has used EMV-chip cards for more than a decade, necessitating a very different approach to the mobile point of sale.

Banks nationwide are finding ways to make mobile deposit capture available to more people and faster without taking on more fraud risk.

When it comes to mobile banking technology firm Digital Insight's new replacement for passwords, the "eyes" have it.

Visa Inc. now supports mobile geo-location technology to reduce transaction declines when consumers travel outside of their home area.

Digital Insight, a company owned by NCR Corporation, has secured an agreement with EyeVerify Inc. to integrate the biometrics company's eye vein recognition technology, called Eyeprint ID, into its mobile banking platforms.

American Express will certainly suffer when its 16-year cobranding deal with Costco ends in 2016, but its executives will spend the next year building up the card brand's digital payment products to create enough opportunities to ease the company's short-term pain and guarantee its long-term health.

Top executives from Bank of America, U.S. Bancorp, American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Microsoft and Apple are expected to participate as part of a White House summit on cybersecurity issues in California on Friday.

This week's White House Summit on cybersecurity at Stanford University comes at a pivotal time for payment and security professionals, who have an opportunity to cooperate to fight Internet crime.

American Express Co., the biggest U.S. credit-card issuer by customer purchases, said its co-brand and merchant agreements with Costco Wholesale Corp. in U.S. stores will end next year.

ApplePie Capital, a new marketplace lender that specializes in lending to franchises, has officially opened for business.

As e-commerce continues to grow, so does the business potential for fraudsters. And many common security measures aren't enough to solve the problem.

Fraudsters have taken to crowdfunding sites and other consumer-driven marketplaces in a new scheme designed to mask their use of stolen card data.