Technology

The e-commerce payment processing provider Adyen is trying to capture more business in Asia from the growing number of merchants who want to sell to North America and other regions.

U.S. citizens traveling to Brazil for the World Cup have been warned: beware the chupacabra. Card cloning is common in Brazil, so U.S. citizens should take precautions when withdrawing money and check account activity often, the U.S. Citizen Services office in Brazil said on its Twitter account.

Starbucks customers in South Korea will be the first to use the coffee giant’s popular mobile payment app to place an order and pay for it before they show up at the store.

Sam's Club plans to launch a cash back program for a new co-branded MasterCard that will also leverage EMV-chip technology, providing some much-needed momentum for the EMV migration in the U.S.

A data dump by hacktivists called Anonymous Ukraine, which triggered American Express to notify nearly 77,000 California residents of potential exposed information, is posing a public relations challenge for the card brand even though it says its internal systems were not breached.

FIS' NYCE payments network has reached an agreement with MasterCard to use the card brand's technology for routing EMV debit payments.

Elizabeth Buse, a former Visa executive who left the card network this year after a 16-year career with the company, has been named co-CEO of Monitise Group.

No organization is immune to data breaches–especially small businesses without access to the same resources as larger merchants, requiring a vigorous security program that includes EMV and other protections at the point of sale.

Harris and Hoole, a coffee chain supported by U.K. grocery company Tesco PLC, is accepting mobile payments at the point of sale in each of its 36 stores throughout the country.

On Track Innovations Ltd. has introduced a modular device it describes as a three-in-one payment solution.