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Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc. and American Express Co. should begin tracking gun sales and flagging suspicious purchases…

Patience isn’t the most popular virtue in Silicon Valley, where companies aspire to move fast and break things, the motto that defined the age of tech excess. Nothing broke on the day in…

Apple Inc. AAPL -3.86% tiptoed into finance with Apple Pay and the credit card it launched three years ago with…

Apple’s introduction of a credit card in 2019 was the first step: Apple not only wanted to be the recipient of your money, it wanted to have a hand in how you manage that money.The credit…

Banking and fintech firms have been using artificial intelligence (AI) for the last few years to improve fraud detection on credit and debit cards, analyze patterns of…

For decades, America’s largest card network has been the exclusive electronic-payments provider at the world’s largest sporting event. At this year’s Beijing Games, however,…

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When Deepak Rao founded his first startup, in 2011, he put all of his business expenses on two personal credit cards, with a combined credit limit of about $3,000. “They were totally maxed…

In the summer of 1997, in the “Seinfeld" writers room, Mr. Feresten boldly told Jerry Seinfeld that wallets were over. Jerry disagreed. This led to a wallet throw-down,…

SYDNEY— Square Inc. has agreed to acquire Afterpay Ltd. in an all-stock deal worth around $29 billion, illustrating how financial technology companies are seeking scale to…