Technology

NCR Corp. said Tuesday that it had bought Mobiqa Ltd., a mobile provider of tickets, boarding passes, downloadable applications and coupons.

The housing crisis may now get as personal for bank executives as it has for individual homeowners.

Online Resources Corp. has launched a program to offer utility companies a lower-cost card-acceptance option when their customers pay their bills with a Visa-branded card, the financial-services provider reported Oct. 5.

Point-of-sale terminals five years from now may not look much different from today’s devices, but big changes are anticipated for the software running on them, new research suggests.

The association representing independent Little Caesars franchisees has endorsed Heartland Payment Systems Inc. for payroll and transaction-processing services.

Bank of America Corp.’s Global Card Services unit on Oct. 19 reported a net loss of $9.87 billion for the third quarter ended Sept. 30; the issuer reported a $955 million loss during the same period last year. This past quarter’s loss includes a $10.4 billion goodwill-impairment charge that did not exist in 2009’s third quarter.

Ventura County CU has installed S1 Corp’s mobile banking application.

Austin, Texas-based University Federal Credit Union has contracted with Firethorn Holdings LLC, a unit of Qualcomm Inc., to provide its members with mobile banking services.

In rewriting Huntington Bancshares Inc.'s mobile and online banking strategy, Jeff Dennes faces a challenge he didn't have at USAA Federal Savings Bank: a large branch network.

Driven lower by heavy charge-offs and increased frugality among consumers, inflation-adjusted household debt, including borrowing on credit cards, has fallen about 5.6% from a peak in the fourth quarter of 2008, to a nominal $13.4 trillion in the second quarter this year.