Technology

Banks and debt collectors are taking over courtrooms to press consumers for payments. Local officials see these 'rocket dockets' as a way to cope with a deluge of collections suits. But their judicial appearance may also mislead debtors into believing they face offers they can't refuse.

Whole Foods Market has agreed to use multiple versions of Square Inc.'s mobile payments technology.

MoneyGram plans to restructure its executive lineup and other aspects of its organization as it works to expand consumer-facing services and manage its investments in anti-fraud and compliance programs.

More people worldwide will be able to transfer funds to users of the mobile money transfer service M-Pesa due to a new partnership with Vodafone and Moneygram.

Payveris and D3 Banking are integrating their technology to allow banks and credit unions to use Payveris' digital payments functions with D3 Banking's multichannel digital banking service.

Pizza Patron is integrating Revel Systems' mobile point of sale system into its more than 100 restaurant locations, which had been using several different vendors' products to accept payments.

Russian customs payments processor Multiservice Payment System has deployed technology to combine a Web transaction portal with electronic declaration services at the point of sale.

The Currency Cloud, an international payments provider, has extended its reporting functionality to allow clients to follow their outgoing and incoming transactions to speed up payments.

The recent retail data breaches are drawing attention to instant card issuance as a way to repair consumer relationships.

The ATM Industry Association named Gregory Sahrmann and Steve Gernes as co-chairs of the nonprofit trade association's U.S. board of directors.