As part of the proposed settlement, the credit card companies will temporarily lower the swipe fees for merchants. But not everyone sees this as a satisfying end to a legal battle that stretched on for 20 years.

More than 60% of all purchases last year were made with a credit or debit card, according to the Federal Reserve. That’s up from 45% in 2016.

Russian banks may have to turn to Chinese processor UnionPay.

Credit-card changes are driven by security concerns, and it turns out that signature swipe has its own swath of problems.

Mastercard has a new plan to make digital banking more accessible.

The online payment service and its would-be competitors are working out the kinks.

Securing transactions one duck face at a time