Technology

Two years after eschewing Apple Pay and NFC, CVS is integrating payments, marketing and prescription ordering in a single bar code-enabled mobile app, replacing a customer experience that currently relies heavily on time-consuming interactions with staff.

A rash of scams targeting foreign students is turning the business of handling tuition payments from a relatively low-risk proposition to one fraught with challenges.

From the buzz in the technology press over the last two weeks, one might think that end times are nigh in the world of authentication.

Walmart Pay has been available nationwide at Walmart stores for several weeks, but consumers haven’t taken much notice — a foreboding sign for those hoping for a breakthrough with merchant-branded mobile payment apps.

Application programming interfaces are the connective tissue of the digital transformation at banks. Their role is getting more important as consumers look for more ways to connect.

Payza, a U.K.-based global online payments platform, has expanded the reach of its prepaid Mastercard, which is linked to an existing mobile wallet, to 190 countries.

Banks need to embrace technology that can deliver the speed and personalization millennials have come to expect or risk losing this customer segment to fintech companies for good.

Apple Inc. is preparing the first significant overhaul of its MacBook Pro laptop line in over four years, according to people familiar with the matter, using one of its older products to help reverse two quarters of sliding sales.

Square Inc. is joining with restaurant technology startup Upserve to offer loans to eating establishments, extending credit for the first time to businesses that operate outside of its own payments processing system.

Card manufacturer Oberthur Technologies is offering issuers facing a shortage of EMV chip cards an option to receive as many as 25,000 in five days, rather than waiting the standard three to four weeks.