Apple Inc. said customers in China can now use the country's most popular payment card for transactions on the App Store, as the iPhone maker seeks to woo users in the world's largest smartphone market.

A number of credit union and bank executives have been ignoring the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security, waiting for the federal government to issue more definitive guidance.

More people than ever are becoming aware of the impact of data breaches and the resulting fraud. But what about the rest of the fraud types: internal fraud, account takeover, elder abuse and even the old generic scam?

McDonald's Corp. has tested a wide range of mobile payment technology throughout the world, and its ability to do so is rooted in an old decision based as much on customer service as technology.

As Apple Pay creates more consumer and merchant awareness of mobile payments, Benefit Mobile Inc. figures the time is right to focus on enabling charitable donations from smartphones.

Business-to-business payments are ripe for disruption and there are plenty of startups innovating in the space today. These newcomers, after being thwarted by corporate red tape, are finding a more welcoming audience from small businesses.

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have agreed to launch preliminary investigations into Operation Choke Point.

Mobile tech providers are racing to incorporate EMV chip-and-PIN or chip-and-signature security into their offerings. But many of these companies are taking fundamentally different approaches to linking EMV and mobile technology.

The co-founders of Mopay have officially joined the executive team of Boku, which acquired the German company last month.

New Zealand-based financial services institution Westpac has contracted Gemalto, a Dutch digital security company, to provide its mobile payment technology to Westpac's customers.

Google Inc., citing a maturing e-commerce market, is telling merchants it will end support for its digital goods application programming interface. As such, they need to find another processor soon.

PURCHASE, N.Y. — A total revamp of Quorum FCU's website has resulted in an average of 750 new users each month and three design awards from leading media and marketing associations.

MADISON, Wis. — In an effort to make members' virtual banking easier, UW Credit Union here built an in-house, one-size-fits-all web solution for all operating devices — from PC to smartphones.

Kim Kardashian may be an overexposed reality star, but she's also a tech entrepreneur with a short-lived past in the payments industry. And several companies in the Bitcoin space are repeating her biggest mistake by offering a plastic payment card.

Co-branding credit card partnerships has never been smooth sailing, but competition has clearly gotten tougher amid Apple Pay's launch.

Banks and merchants are under threat to lose millions of dollars in investment in their apps by allowing them to become obsolete because they don’t provide the most desired functionality of all: Payment.

In what amounts to eliminating password use and evolving the Verified by Visa and SecureCode online authentication processes, MasterCard says a new security protocol it is developing with Visa could be implemented next year.

Chief information officers discuss their institutions' biggest challenges, the emerging technologies that excite them the most, investment plans for 2015 and more at the FinTech Forward pavilion at the BAI Retail Delivery show.

For payment technology developers, the stakes couldn't be higher as the FCC develops new rules that could support or eliminate net neutrality, a system in which Web access is equal for most users, regardless of size.

ARLINGTON,Va. — NASCUS kicked off its inaugural cyber security symposium last Thursday, and judging from attendance, there will be a repeat performance next year.