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With 38.5 million affiliated health plan members nationwide, Anthem, Inc. is one of the U.S.’s biggest health benefits companies with commercial health plans in 14 states and Medicaid plans in 19 states.

Citigroup Inc. is testing new technology that would allow customers to withdraw money with an eyeball scan or a code on a smartphone instead of a card swipe.

Capital One is offering customers the chance to replace security questions for some transactions with a swipe of their mobile phones.

Swatch launched a new NFC-enabled payments watch for the Chinese market.

Target has become the first major credit card issuer to convert to cards that contain a PIN.
 

The National Retail Federation said it agreed with a warning from the FBI that new chip-based credit cards are safer than traditional cards but still vulnerable to fraud and need to be used with a PIN to minimize risk.

A new study reveals a dramatic increase in the overall cost of cyber crime. 

Mastercard is rolling out a biometrics payments service that will kill passwords within five years.

A survey has found that that 56 percent of consumers are unaware of what an EMV or 'chip' credit card is.