Technology

SignaPay, a payment processing company based in Irving, Texas, has acquired PayHub, a merchant services company in San Rafael, Calif.

Alipay, the payments affiliate of Alibaba, leads the market for online third-party payment services in China, according to a recent iResesarch, a Chinese market research firm.

As mobile commerce and other new technologies change the way people shop, fraudsters are changing their methods to adapt. Banks, fintech providers and consumers are all looking at security in new ways.

Virgin Money has struck a seven-year deal with the British financial tech company Monitise to develop the U.K. bank's mobile products.

Multi-account card providers Coin and Stratos Card have an EMV compliance gap that may prove problematic for their relationships with card issuers.

MasterCard will soon make its digital wallet available to consumers in China.

Wearable computing is very much a nascent market, but by using flexible programming methods PNC hopes to be ready to deploy payments apps when the technology takes off.

Total holiday sales are expected to reach $863 billion in 2014, up from $822 billion last year. That is a staggering amount of money, and the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas make or break a sales year for large and small businesses alike.

The biggest bank in the country now lets opted-in mobile Android and Apple customers view their balances without entering their user names and passwords.

California officials are considering whether to regulate digital currencies such as Bitcoin after concluding they have the authority to do so under existing law.