Technology

Protecting customer credit card data was not on the priority list for P.J. Jacokes when he started his own business three years ago.

Payments processor and technology provider Jack Henry & Associates Inc. has expanded the processing relationship between its iPay Technologies division and MasterCard Worldwide’s RPPS electronic bill-payment network, the companies announced Sept. 20.

Google Inc. has reached agreements with Visa Inc., American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services with the goal of eventually enabling other financial institutions to add their Near Field Communication-enabled payment card products to Google Wallet, the company announced Sept. 19.

A five-year terminal contract that will enable Avis Europe PLC Inc. to process and manage transactions from numerous European countries will help position French terminal maker Ingenico SA to corner the European car-rental market, company executives and an industry analyst say.

Lost in the drama–and it was drama, as the payments technology world goes–of Fundtech Ltd.’s cancellation of its merger with S1 Corp. was an answer to the most important question: why?

Members at BECU, formerly Boeing Employees Credit Union, and hundreds of credit unions had their cards rejected at Co-op Financial ATMs on Sept. 16 because of a disruption in the system at processor Fidelity National Information Systems.

When it comes to battling data breaches, banks would be well served doing such things as curbing employee web surfing to prevent unauthorized access to information. That’s just one of the suggestions bankers, technology providers and analysts made in a recent survey PaymentsSource sister publication, Bank Technology News, conducted.

NEW YORK — MasterCard Inc. is preparing for the launch of Google Inc.’s mobile wallet within the next few weeks, but executives do not expect to see consumers regularly paying with their phones anytime soon.

PHILADELPHIA — In his first speech since taking over for Elizabeth Warren as the public face of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Raj Date warned that the agency will take a firm stance when it identifies practices that are harmful for consumers.

The board of the payments technology vendor Fundtech Ltd. plans to halt its intended merger with S1 Corp. after receiving a separate offer from the private equity firm GTCR.