Technology

Heartland School Solutions has launched mySchoolBucks, a mobile app that provides parents access to their children’s school related payments.

Canadian-based cooperative financial group Desjardins has reached an agreement with mobile technology provider Monitise to develop and deploy Near Field Communication-based mobile payments.

Business for debt collectors in Spain, where the industry is barely regulated and uses methods mostly illegal in the U.S., has risen by an estimated 40% in the past five years.

U.S. Bancorp, which is frequently an early mover in payments technology, is upgrading its approach to business payments.

ID Analytics Inc. wants to make sure banks know when a fraudster has taken over an account and is trying to go wild with card payments or money transfers.

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin is part of the team behind Glow, a fertility tracking service that uses a mobile app, crowdfunding and analysis to help women conceive children.

EMV chips improve security over magnetic-stripe cards, but they have not been easy to implement. Years ago, a Forrester analyst said "the U.S. is going to adopt EMV in about the same way the U.S. adopted the metric system — somewhere between kicking and screaming and not at all." What have been the biggest hurdles?

Blackbaud has added mobile payment capabilities intended for nonprofit and educational organizations to use at fundraising events.

Consumer confidence rose last week to the highest mark in more than five years as Americans' views on personal finances, spending and the economy improved.

Samsung Wallet, an Android wallet app that largely resembles Apple's Passbook, is now available on the Google Play marketplace for Android smartphone apps.