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Walgreens' vision for creating a patient-centered pharmacy combines mobile health care, digital health technologies and its Balance Rewards prepaid and loyalty system.

While Apple's taking an early incremental approach to Las Vegas, terminal manufacturer Ingenico is very bullish on the technology picking up steam with the gaming industry and its patrons.

"Big data" has been all the rage in the payments industry in recent years. While the hype seems to have subsided a bit, that might be because the most dedicated data-using merchants have put their heads down to focus on sifting through the data to investigate fraud.

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday received a letter from regulators in 11 states expressing concerns about information provided to students affected by the closure of campuses operated by Corinthian Colleges Inc.

U.S. consumers borrowed more in the first quarter to pay for education and automobiles but their overall debt burden remained mostly flat, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

A new study on student loans runs counter to the popular belief that rising student loan debt is hurting the ability of young adults to access credit.

Two mobile phone companies reached a $158 million settlement with federal and state regulators to resolve allegations that they added third-party service charges to consumers’ telephone bills that were not authorized by consumers.

With more patients paying part or all of their health care expenses directly, health care providers find themselves thrust into the world of consumer payments and collections, where providers face different costs, risks and expectations than they did working primarily with insurance companies.

Beacons—those little Bluetooth mechanisms stores use to beam ads to shoppers' phones—may someday play a critical role in payments. But the technology is still years away from being a practical alternative to cards and NFC-based mobile wallets.

Square Inc. says it has received more funding for its Square Capital program, which grants loans to Square merchants based on their transaction history.