Technology

More than half of student loan accounts are in deferred status, where the repayment of the principal and interest of the loan is temporarily delayed, according to a TransUnion study.

Fraud losses on U.S. credit and debit cards, after years of decline, now appear to be on the rise again. And one key culprit, according to experts, is this country's slow adoption of technology that will improve security.

Total System Services Inc. extended an agreement to provide processing and support to Payment Alliance International.

NetAuthority Inc.’s upgraded fraud prevention services include advanced encryption modules and software that allows banks and health-care facilities to more easily deploy them.

Canada's right next door and has lots of English speakers, so it might seem the ideal place for American independent sales organizations to expand. But the two countries' business and cultural practices differ in ways that Americans may not expect.

Mainstream consumers are still slow to adopt newer payment technology, but several cities are pushing ahead of the rest of the world.

A computer hacker from the online activism group “Anonymous” was sentenced in Britain to 18 months in jail for conspiring to attack the websites of Visa Inc., PayPal Inc., MasterCard Inc. and others.

Synqera is trying to set itself apart from rivals in the targeted-offer crowd by using point-of-sale hardware with data collection tools that look at everything from weather patterns to the shopper's mood.

Priority Payment Systems LLC has signed up for payment processing services from TSYS, or Total System Services Inc.

Little-known global payments provider Adyen processed $10 billion worth of transactions in 2012, a new record the company points out is on par with the volume of mobile payments processor Square. So does this mean that Adyen is becoming a threat to Jack Dorsey’s brainchild and other processors?