Technology

December’s breaches made the most headlines, but the bad news for retailers seems to keep coming every few days, alternating with the latest weather reports to make up a good chunk of every evening newscast.

The quick-service restaurant industry has a strong appetite for mobile payments as a way to make fast food sales happen even faster.

Payments technology provider Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) and its NYCE debit network have secured a licensing agreement with Visa to use the card brand's EMV debit application identifier (common AID) technology.

Green Bank has dropped a lawsuit against Target and security vendor Trustwave that stemmed from the retailer's 2013 data breach.

Much like Africa, India is proving to be fertile ground for mobile money services, and payments processor Calpian plans to extend its reach in the market.

The telecom-driven mobile money provider M-Pesa has expanded to Europe, with cash-heavy Romania as its first market.

Already a major card issuer in the military market, Navy Federal Credit Union is working to expand its merchant services business through new agreements with Square and TSYS.

Every year, the tech industry puts out sophisticated April Fools' Day pranks designed to look too outlandish to be real. But technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that one person's joke is another person's next big product.

Square merchants who sell in the online Square Market can now accept payments in Bitcoin.

One of the two banks suing retailer Target and security vendor Trustwave in connection with the retailer's high-profile data breach has backed off.