You may see routing and account numbers on checks written on your account and wonder what they mean. They are the two sets of numbers that banks rely on to ensure the money moves between the correct ...

When Mastercard was blindsided in the final weeks of the year by a proposed consent order with the Federal Trade Commission around violations of debit-routing rules, a key question was how Visa and ...

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc.’s security tokens restrict debit-card routing competition on online payments, according to people familiar with the ...