Merchant

With mobile-payment technology advancing seemingly at the speed of a mobile payment itself, one has to wonder how long it might be before consumers wouldn’t need, or even possess, plastic cards to conduct transactions.

MasterCard Worldwide plans to offer a new tool to help merchants mitigate the risk of fraud in online transactions.

It is hard to deny Richard Cordray's hiring to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau nearly four months ago is a flash point in continuing debates over regulatory appointments and implementing the Dodd-Frank Act.

First Data Corp. is giving the name “Universal Commerce” to the company’s campaign to combine online and offline shopping and loyalty rewards.

As new card-fraud controls emerge, even cards used to purchase cocktails aboard airplanes are getting closer scrutiny.

If PayPal Inc. strikes with a new payment application, it stands to reason Square Inc. would respond with a new twist on its mobile-payment service.

Unobtrusive until now, a set of unrelated security requirements is about to become pretty unpopular, and costly.

A recent acquisition is enabling Trustwave to add malicious-software detection to the data-security scans the company performs to check compliance with Payment Card Industry data security standards.

Iovation Inc. considers protecting online merchants from hackers looking to steal payment card data a top priority, but the security vendor also can boast of some crime-solving skills.

As traditional and emerging payment providers scrap over many aspects of the mobile-payments infrastructure being built in the U.S., an overriding concern for consumers and industry leaders for emerging payments of all types continues to be security.