For several years, independent sales organizations have been warned by colleagues in the merchant acquiring business that they had to keep up with payments technology to remain relevant in the payments ecosystem. And judgment day is fast approaching.

From data privacy to robocalling, industry leaders chime in on the biggest regulatory and congressional issues at stake for the remainder of the year.

Regional and small banks are striking digital partnerships and launching new savings offerings as they attempt to steal away business from bigger institutions.

The San Diego parent of Ascent Student Lending said Tuesday that it will buy Skills Fund, an Austin, Texas, startup that specializes in lending to students at computer-coding boot camps.

For four years running, consumer complaints about the three national credit reporting agencies — Experian, Equifax and TransUnion — have dominated the CFPB’s database. What do they keep doing wrong?

From improving call center operations to advancements in voice banking and more, distributed ledger technology has the potential to radically improve data security.

Lincoln Parks, director of marketing at Heritage Bank, explains the bank’s cautious yet forward-thinking approach to its new virtual assistant.

After criticizing the prevalence of social sign-in buttons on the internet, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, unveiled one of his company's own. It's essentially Apple Pay without the payments.

Subhankar Sinha, the bank’s new head of blockchain, says its partnership with Bakkt is part of a larger effort to figure out what it would look like to be a custodian for digital assets.

Open banking or connections to payment apps and fintechs helps financial institutions meet these customer needs in a number of ways that can help them build that customer relationship, writes Maria Allen, global head of financial services for Unisys.

A former Wall Street lawyer who worked on bank bailouts is behind the idea; threatened tariffs are only one of the country’s problems, Citi CEO says.

Companies must be more prepared to defend user data from malicious outsiders, or suffer the consequences of lawsuits, sanctions from data privacy laws, decreased user trust, tarnished brand reputation, damaged investor relations and more, writes Ben Goodman, vice president of global strategy and innovation at ForgeRock.

The increased mobile engagement at U.S. Bank goes back to Ankit Bhatt letting customers tell him — and, many times, show him — what needs to improve.

Suspense builds on what the new name of merged BB&T-SunTrust will be; JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says Wells Fargo 'irresponsible' for lack of CEO plan; how APIs are being used at Citi, BBVA and other leading banks; and more from this week's most-read stories.

The Apple co-founder offered advice on how to create successful products, why he craves privacy and why companies should value engineers and inventors.

New technologies can increase lending and reduce risk but many management teams don't know where to begin with implementing them.

The stocks of a wide swath of publicly traded payments companies are rising faster than the overall S&P 500 index, potentially fueled by several mega mergers in the first half of 2019.

Paysafe has recruited TSYS exec Philip McHugh as its new CEO, a few days after news broke of the TSYS-Global Payments merger.

The London firm lags the three largest U.S. vendors but bets its new open banking platform can win it more business.

Payment network tokenization should sound appealing to every online retailer because it relieves friction and releases them from much of their risk, liability and compliance burden. The trick is achieving scale from both a technical and business agreement perspective, writes Ammar Faheem, vice president of digital payment solutions for North America at Gemalto, a Thales company.