Technology

Louisiana is owed nearly $1.4 billion. The state's Cash Management Review Board will meet Friday to discuss collection options.

Fair Isaac has completed its $115-million acquisition of Adeptra, a privately held company that provides technology for reducing fraud and credit risk.

BitPay, an Orlando-based company that helps online merchants accept the digital currency, says more than 1,000 merchants have signed up for its service in the past year.

Online Resources Corp. opened an office in the metro Atlanta area this year to attract the sort of payments-industry talent it says is rarer in Chantilly, Va., where it is based.

Only Apple knows for sure, but there are signs that new iPhone, which many expect Apple to announce at a press event Sept. 12, could revolutionize payments by putting an Apple mobile wallet into consumers' hands.

A Walmart store or CVS Pharmacy may not be the first places that come to mind to make rent payments, but those locations and thousands of others are now part of the mix for paying rent with cash through WilliamPaid.com, a Chicago-based online rental payment website.

Despite the decisions by some of the leading mobile-payment providers to work within the existing infrastructure, investors are concerned that legacy players' operations soon might become obsolete. And VeriFone is serving as their poster child.

ATM operators have long expressed confusion about the migration to EMV chip-card technology in the U.S., since the card brands were focused mainly on point of sale terminals. MasterCard made things far clearer today with its announcement of an October 2016 deadline for a liability shift for ATM operators.

Google will no longer support the Google-branded virtual prepaid card built into Google Wallet as of Oct. 17.

Having exhausted warning notices and phone calls from collection agencies, Illinois Tollway officials are taking violators to court to try to recover $300 million in unpaid tolls and fines.