Technology

Square has released a new mobile card reader that is meant to improve accuracy and durability.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule Tuesday that allows it to supervise the largest nonbank student loan servicers in the country.

While Diane Vogt Faro was "growing up" in the payments business, she helped the entire industry mature.

BtcQuick, a Bitcoin exchange, has deployed miiCard's identity verification service to comply with Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering requirements and help deter fraud risk.

Adyen has developed encryption software that protects payment data for consumers shopping online through desktop or mobile devices.

Many payments companies are testing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, which has a wider range, and is considered an alternative to, Near Field Communication for executing mobile payments. BLE-based technologies are also being developed for customers to check into stores and for merchants to deliver marketing and loyalty programs. Here are few companies giving BLE and other NFC alternatives a try.

Entertainment and mobile technology company Pimovi has released CamFusion, a mobile app that enables in-app payments for content accessed by wearable computing.

Square's Jack Dorsey sparked a price war over Japanese credit-card transactions with SoftBank Corp.'s Masayoshi Son. Entrepreneurs like Yukiko Kurano are the biggest winners so far.

Software updates have largely resolved the glitches that have marred the rollout of the new Ventra contactless fare system on Chicago's famed "L" trains, and the process of applying the same updates throughout the city's bus fleet will be completed this week, Chicago Transit Authority officials said.

JPMorgan Chase is warning 465,000 holders of prepaid cash cards that their personal information may have been accessed by hackers who attacked the bank's network earlier this year.