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Heartland Payment Systems and Tabbedout are developing an integrated mobile payment system for restaurants and bars.

Visa Europe has secured the services of Conferma to provide its issuing banks and payments partners with technology that can provide virtual account numbers for business travel customers.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) plans an electronic voucher program in Lebanon that will enable Syrian refugees to make MasterCard payments.

Total outstanding balances on auto and credit card loans increased year-over-year in August and bank-issued credit cards increased in two consecutive months for the first time in five years, according to Equifax's latest National Consumer Credit Trends Report.

Dickie Brennan is a New Orleans staple, a local business owner whose family has operated restaurants in the Crescent City for decades. A protégé of legendary chef Paul Prudhomme, Brennan is also an early adopter of a new mobile technology he hopes will change the way people dine out.

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Wright-Patt CU has picked five families to compete in its eight-month Savings Race, with this year’s contest – the Health & Financial Fitness Edition – dedicated to teaching contestants how to become healthier both physically and financially.

Consumer advocates pressed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday to crack down harder on credit card issuers despite recent regulations that largely curtailed hidden fees and predatory practices.

FirstBank is the first non-founding member of clearXchange, a bank-led network that lets consumers send payments to other customers of clearXchange banks.

MasterCard has agreed to purchase Provus Billisim Hizmetleri A.S. (Provus), a Turkish payment technology and processing company.

E-Commerce sales on the Visa network in the U.S. surpassed $1 billion 188 times during the first nine months of the 2013 (out of 273 total days), a 16% increase in volume over the same period last year, the card network reports.