Technology

Despite constant calls to action, U.S. credit card issuers may still be too complacent about card fraud — even as the fallout from massive data breaches snowballs.

Shopkick now works with both Visa and MasterCard to offer targeted rewards using transaction data gathered at the point of sale.

Severely delinquent balances among first mortgages are declining, according to Equifax's May National Consumer Credit Trends Report.

Though ZooZ is now the exclusive payment option for merchants that use the mobile commerce platform provider MobiCart, this week's agreement linking the two tech companies is, paradoxically, about providing access to as many payment options as possible.

Google announced revisions to its mobile wallet that make it a more palatable choice for the sale of digital goods.

When Global Payments last March revealed it had suffered a data breach, executives at tokenization vendor Protegrity began what amounted to a verbal campaign calling for fraud liability to shift to processors. Elavon must have thought Protegrity was onto something.

For small merchants, the annual compliance questionnaire for the PCI Standard has become increasingly complex. First Data hopes to make the process simple again by using technology.

JPMorgan Chase's Chase Paymentech has begun supplying retailers and other merchants with new terminals that can accept payments from smartphones and cards embedded with computer chips.

Consumer confidence fell in June for the fourth straight month as fears about jobs and the greater economy trumped relief at the gas pump and a boost in the housing market, according to a private research group.

PNC Financial Services Group has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a class action relating to its overdraft protection practices.