Bitcoin wallet providers have had a touchy relationship with prepaid cards. But whether or not these companies care about plastic, they should care about how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's prepaid proposal affects them.

A new partnership between Toronto-Dominion Bank and tech firm Moven underscores how banks are beginning to embrace the idea of personal financial management services for their mobile apps.

Mobile payments company Yapital has partnered with the German supermarket chain Wasgau to support smartphone payments with minimal technology upgrades.

Monitise has picked up some well-heeled backers to fuel its move into global markets, as MasterCard, Telefonica and Santander join to take a stake in the mobile technology company.

Bankers can prepare for the eventual dominance of mobile technology by investing in interactive videos and moving away from monolithic applications.

As I mentioned in my first prediction for 2015, our global economy and interconnected business world is going to lead to new, innovative financial and payments technology in the next year.

Real-time payment systems must be interoperable if they are to succeed, Fiserv says. To this end, the vendor wants to enable an open network, but it faces stiff competition.

The annual Cyber Monday shopping holiday is a boon to mobile payments, but remains a significant challenge for e-commerce security.

GENEVA, N.Y. — To better compete with regional competition, Finger Lakes Federal Credit Union enhanced its digital banking and payment capabilities, which has increased online banking usage by 34% and mobile growth by 128%.

U.S. Bancorp recently began offering paperless account opening after seeing good results from electronically signed and documented lending. Yet a large segment of the industry still hesitates to use this technology, for legal, technical and cultural reasons.

Banco del Pacifico has announced plans to deploy two types of automated teller machines to help serve the underbanked in Ecuador.

Apple Pay launched in late October, facing a few early hiccups and an unclear future. But in the month of November, Apple's strategy began to come into focus even as competitors closed in.

The CFPB's proposed requirements threaten to trap next-generation digital wallets and cryptocurrency innovations in a consumer protection regime narrowly tailored to the unique characteristics of reloadable prepaid cards.

WEST JORDAN, Utah — As the fifth largest credit union branch network in the nation spanning five states, Mountain America CU figured out a way to provide secure wireless access to all its members and employees while saving money.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — In late 2013, Cabrillo CU had a goal of reducing paper-based processes by 30%. By adopting a comprehensive document imaging and enterprise content management (ECM) solution that milestone was surpassed, which allowed employees to build stronger member relations.

BURBANK, Calif. — By looking outside its IT and data-processing department, Logix Federal Credit Union automated nearly 70% of its data processing workload.

Online shopping and payments has become a popular holiday option, making it vital that online merchants to ensure their sites can handle the spike in web traffic and transaction volume for "Black Friday" and the rest of the holiday shopping season.

A year after the Target data breach prompted retailers to step up their migration to EMV-chip acceptance, many consumers finally have EMV cards or can access the same security through Apple Pay's new mobile wallet. But will they finally change their habits?

A U.K. company is building a mobile payment system that is designed to appeal to the needs of both banks and retailers, but faces challenges in winning consumers away from mobile wallets that have already hit the market.

A significant number of consumers are concerned about credit card fraud, particularly in light of recent, high-profile data breaches disclosed by Home Depot and Target, according a survey released by FICO.