Technology

Life at Fiserv Inc., it seems, is good. And others increasingly are reaping the rewards.

One in three U.S. adults is interested in mobile and Near Field Communication-based payments, new data suggest.

Iovation Inc. considers protecting online merchants from hackers looking to steal payment card data a top priority, but the security vendor also can boast of some crime-solving skills.

Credit card issuers' account charge-off rates, already exceptionally low, remain on track to hit bottom later this year.

As traditional and emerging payment providers scrap over many aspects of the mobile-payments infrastructure being built in the U.S., an overriding concern for consumers and industry leaders for emerging payments of all types continues to be security.

A Singapore-based company last week announced the planned launched of a mobile-payment service that uses a card-reader device similar to the one offered by Square Inc. and other companies.

Organizations are getting better at surviving data breaches, but the risks of experiencing a major incident are as high as ever.

WASHINGTON–Congress on March 22 took its first cautious steps into mobile payments with a House hearing focused on security issues and prudent regulation for the rapidly evolving mobile market.

A federal court has rejected civil claims brought by five credit unions and one bank stemming from the massive 2008 data breach at Heartland Payment Systems that exposed millions of cardholders to fraudulent transactions.

Venmo Inc. has lifted the “Invitation Only” sign off of its social mobile-payments application, hoping to expand quickly a person-to-person payment system that already accommodates as much as $10 million in transaction volume per month.