Technology

American Express and Dwolla suffered website outages, which the companies attributed to distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. Such attacks are designed to knock out a website by flooding it with more traffic than it is designed to handle.

EBay and its payments subsidiary PayPal are aggressively mining consumers' spending data, which they say is vital as shopping expands across mobile, online and physical shopping channels.

An appeals court in New York overturned a Brooklyn judge's 2011 decision to dismiss a foreclosure and order $15,000 in sanctions against HSBC.

If biometrics is ever going to be a part of how consumers make payments, PayTango Inc. figures the best place to find out is on college campuses.

Global Payments and edo have started a pilot program to integrate edo's card-linked offer product with Global Payments’ marketing services.

With an eye toward making sure more small and medium-size merchants are aware of the need to comply with the Payment Card Industry data security standards, Dallas-based acquirer SignaPay will utilize ControlScan services.

An estimated two in three credit union executives view loan growth as the critical business issue facing their industry in 2013, according to a survey from TransUnion.

The smaller debit networks are ready to join the larger networks in supporting Discover's technology to meet federal rules on routing EMV debit transactions, but they still await clarity from Visa and MasterCard.

NCR is launching NCR Aloha Mobile, which allows restaurants to deploy tableside mobile systems for handling meal orders and payments.

For the two-year-old LevelUp, the national expansion of a pilot the mobile-payment provider ran with the 16-year-old processor Heartland Payment Systems is nothing short of a godsend.