Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

A new report predicts hackers will use new ways to steal your banking information in 2013.

Your cellphone or your wallet? That’s a question credit card giant MasterCard Worldwide tried to answer in a recent survey of consumers’ attitudes toward using their cellphone to make payments for goods and services. The survey found that 62 percent of respondents who use a mobile phone said they’d be open to the idea of

Not to be outdone by Google, electronic payments giant Visa has announced its “next generation of payments solutions,” saying in a statement that the new digital e-commerce, mobile and social networking options will be just as secure, reliable and easy as the current Visa point-of-sale payments, i.e., plastic in-your-wallet credit cards. The new services, to be