Technology

In recent months, several payments industry players have expanded north into Canada, benefiting from the country's similar financial landscape and largely absent language barrier, but sometimes slowed by differences in regulation and technology.

As Isis launched its long-awaited mobile wallet test in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, many people flocked to try it out — and quickly reported their impressions over Twitter.

Paul Whitmore was direct and blunt in his assessment of the state of payments in the U.S. when he spoke at this week's Chicago Payments Symposium at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: "I've been sitting here for two days, wondering how did you get yourself into this mess?"

Dwolla now allows users to make payments in batches, a feature designed to elevate the service beyond person-to-person payments and turn it into a viable tool for business.

Banks looking to reinforce their defenses against data theft may want to start with their automated teller machines.

Longtime banker Charlie Scharf seems like the safe choice to lead Visa. But for the world’s largest payments network, safe is usually smart.

A California man who worked with bogus collectors in India agreed to settle FTC charges that he and his companies deceived and threatened consumers.

Barnes & Noble has informed federal law enforcement authorities that "a sophisticated criminal effort" has potentially exposed customers' credit and debit card information to hackers who tampered with PIN pad devices at 63 of its stores.

Square, which has been promising to expand internationally since it received a $25 million investment from Starbucks, said today it is making its mobile-pay product available in Canada.

The processor Total System Services Inc. has been through lot in its nearly three decades of existence, but nothing compares to the state of the payments industry today.