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The Stanford School of Engineering is offering an online course on virtual currency and cyber security. This course, known as “CS251 – Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and Friends,” [...]

Financial institutions face a dilemma these days when it comes to their mobile banking customers. A recent data point from Digital Insight, an NCR company that provides digital banking products [...]

Nearly half of U.S. consumers believe that non-traditional providers will drive innovation in the financial services industry. At the same time, only 38 percent of consumers would actually [...]

For all the hype, mobile payments still account for a very small fraction of retail in-store payments. Which, at least for the time being, answers the question posed in a newly released research [...]

A new study published by the University of Kentucky claims to have uncovered key data on bitcoin users by analyzing Google Trends data. It has identified two primary groups among bitcoin users: [...]

We now know that Samsung Pay will launch in the U.S. in September after first debuting in South Korea. We also know that the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) will soon launch a public test of [...]

Fiserv says U.S. Bank has selected Biller Advantage from Fiserv, which enables the bank’s business customers to provide electronic billing, presentment and payment options to their [...]

A new Associated Press-GfK poll has found that only about 10 percent of Americans have received a EMV chip-enabled payment card. And, of that 10 percent, less than one-third have actually [...]

Click to view PDF: Federal Reserve Debit Card Interchange Fees & Routing (PDF).

Despite all the recent media hysteria surrounding mobile proximity payments, mobile online retail payments made through apps and mobile browsers continues to be the more mature market by a large [...]