Technology

Visa has launched a new service called Visa Transaction Advisor, which is designed to help U.S. gas stations identify higher-risk credit and debit card transactions at the pump.

Metrobank Card Corp. in the Philippines has signed an agreement to license the latest version of Total System Services' (TSYS) payment processing platform.

In the age of digital commerce, more business are using third parties to manage operations, increasing the risk to any payments data they handle, says the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.

Recently we have seen both Argentina and Ukraine fall into two very different types of crises, but the economic results appear to be the same.

As computing devices get closer to the body, Westpac New Zealand is exploring how wearables such as smartwatches and Google Glass can be used for payments and other financial services.

Wipit has updated its mobile application to allow consumers to make payments by displaying a bar code at the point of sale.

Churn is always a threat and declines can happen at any time–not just when customers are up for renewal.

The Oyster contactless payment card is no longer the only fish in the sea for London's mass transit network, which will accept contactless payments via credit and debit cards by mid-September.

Walt Disney Co.'s experiment in payment-capable wearables can probably be declared a success, with the company reporting that about half of Walt Disney World guests sport MagicBands.

Mobile card readers like Square and PayPal Here must inevitably offer an EMV-chip card option to U.S. merchants, but how soon is too soon? And what are the consequences of arriving too late?