Technology

WASHINGTON — A long-running battle between the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Labor Department is headed for the Supreme Court in December and the outcome could have a significant impact on banks and other mortgage lenders.

OpenTable has released its mobile payment offering in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

A Twitter Inc. account and a bank card is all you'll need in France to tweet money to a friend or a charity. The transfers will be based on a simple rule: no retweets.

Friendly fraud may sound like less of a threat to business than other more large-scale, aggressive attacks, but this sleeper predator costs retailers nearly $12 billion per year, leaving unprotected merchants completely empty-handed and liable for fraud that wasn’t really fraud in the first place.

PALM BEACH, Fla.—Handling transactions is secondary for the tech giants now entering the payments industry, says Diane Offereins, Discover Financial Services executive vice president of payments.

International Dairy Queen, the ice cream chain owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said customer data were compromised by hackers.

VeriFone is planning to test taxi technology that links payments, marketing and special offers delivered to riders.

Early next year, consumers in New Zealand will have the option of making payments through the Semble mobile wallet.

PALM BEACH, Fla.—Few at the Electronic Transaction Association's Strategic Leadership Forum would deny Apple Pay could help prepare the nation for mobile payments and rescue Near Field Communication from obscurity.

Merchants hope this year's holiday shopping season is better than last year, when high profile data breaches stole the headlines.