Technology

With more business owners and information technology personnel accessing payments networks with smartphones and other mobile devices, Trustwave figured it was time to put up more walls of defense to keep out hackers.

The Reserve Bank of India has removed the daily limit on mobile transactions to help boost India’s mobile payments market.

A Canadian independent sales organization is offering its merchants a proprietary mobile-payment acceptance device that other Canadian ISOs also could sell.

A Northern Michigan gas-station owner wanted to give his cash-paying customers the freedom to fill their cars’ tanks first, then pay. But when dishonest drivers skipping the payment process became a problem, he decided to take a different approach.

After the sale of U.S. Central Federal Credit Union’s electronic banking services to Co-op Financial Services, National Credit Union Association on Dec.22 said it will move forward with plans for an orderly wind-down of the other U.S. Central services in 2012.

EBay Inc. has acquired BillSafe, a provider of purchase-on-invoice technology in Germany, the online-auction provider announced Dec. 22.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander when it comes to credit card portfolio sales these days.

Cobranded cards, which fell out of favor somewhat when the consumer losses soared during the recession, are poised for a rebound, if First National Bank of Omaha’s plans are any indication.

Eastern Europe gets a bad rap when it comes to payment card data security, but the region does not experience considerably more hacking-attack incidents than do other parts of the world. But it is a main source of such incidents, an industry analyst contends.

Eastern Europe gets a bad rap when it comes to payment card data security, but the region does not experience considerably more hacking-attack incidents than do other parts of the world. But it is a main source of such incidents, an industry analyst contends.