As regulators heighten their scrutiny of Bitcoin businesses, several digital currency supporters are looking for business models that do not subject them to the cumbersome requirements they would face as money services businesses or money transmitters.

Accounts payables managers have no shortage of methods they can use to pay vendor invoices or that employees can use regularly for discretionary spending.

Advancements in consumer mobile payments are setting the stage for similar changes to corporate employee payments, such as travel purchases and other expenses.

The Peterbrooke Chocolatier has a new recipe for mobile payments: it's blending Apple Pay with NCR's order-ahead and mobile point of sale technology to engage its customers in a new way.

Starbucks Corp., which now handles 16% of its U.S. sales through its mobile app, revealed today just how dominant its position has become even as it plots new features such as preordering.

Apple's high-profile app could give mobile wallets the jump start they needed.

As banks move analytics closer to the front office, bankers need to change the way they think about the customer.

The transformation of brick-and-mortar offices into high-tech sales centers has become an urgent matter as consumers increasingly transact through digital alternatives, yet branches still generate more sales than any other channel.

Banks will leveraging the built-in camera, geolocation and identity features of phones and tablets in new and profitable ways.

Banks' security investments are rising dramatically as breaches grow more frequent and damaging.

Banks are purging paper to speed up processing like their business depends on it. The payoffs from these workflow improvements include faster processing, stronger loyalty, lower costs and higher revenue.

WASHINGTON — The data security breach at Home Depot stores in September cost credit unions $57.4 million to cover card reissuance, plus fraud and other expenses, according to a new survey released Thursday by CUNA.

JESUP, Ga. — The $56 million Altamaha Federal Credit Union has selected core processor provider Sharetec System to provide its new core system.

The bank's partnership with a hot payments startup comes as regulators nudge the industry to speed transactions and as some who initially resisted such calls start to embrace quicker settlement.

Nintendo Co. Ltd. wants to expand the use of the Suica contactless card for small-value payments on its video game consoles.

Apple Pay scooped up one million payment cards in its first 72 hours, 60% of which were Visa cards, but MasterCard's chief executive still expressed optimism for the payment network's chances in the rapidly shifting mobile landscape.

Qiwi will soon be available as an alternate payment option on eBay in Russia.

BBVA Compass is partnering with Dwolla, the Des Moines, Iowa-based alternative payment network to enable real-time payment capabilities throughout its offerings.

Fraudsters are quickly developing a way to sidestep EMV-chip security ahead of the U.S. card networks' October 2015 deadline for adopting the technology.

Financial institutions all over the U.S. are making decisions about how they will implement and manage their EMV infrastructure moving forward; decisions that will impact their operations for years to come.