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A data encryption method that Heartland Payment Systems CEO Robert Carr swears by has received high-level acceptance as part of a new standard.

Bank of America's electronic payments processing arm has created a European unit based in London.

Amazon's new global partner program focuses on working with online platform providers and developers, similar to how mainstream payment technology companies work with independent sales organizations to reach new clients.

Verifone is hoping to beat the payments disruptors at their own game, introducing a mobile point of sale terminal for quick-service businesses, small retail shops and cafés that integrates payments with other consumer services.

When negativity threatens to stall progress, some surprisingly simple “little tricks” can help resolve conflict and get employees more engaged, says Michelle Stacy, who spoke at a recent Pennsylvania Bankers Association conference.

When Starbucks’ new loyalty program rules go into effect this month, it will set the stage for a wave of new payments innovations with intriguing benefits for the coffee giant and its payments processing partner, JPMorgan Chase.

Amazon.com Inc.'s relaunch of its online payments business in 2013 was greeted with skepticism. PayPal Holdings Inc. had a huge head start and credit card companies like Visa Inc. already had products that made buying something on the Web as easy as swiping a card.

More than two-thirds of all U.S.-issued MasterCard consumer credit cards are now chip-enabled and the number of merchants accepting EMV transactions continues to climb, MasterCard said March 31.

Banc of California in Irvine has promoted a back-office executive to become chief administrative officer.

The migration to EMV chip cards in the U.S. has hit enough snags that some may wonder if it's better to let someone else smooth things out.

The former head of the FDIC has a longstanding interest in small-dollar consumer lending.

Did Lehman Brothers pick Erin Callan Montella for CFO at a desperate hour so that she could be the one to fall on the sword? Kelly Evans of "Closing Bell" suggests so. Are women focusing too much on performance? Carla Harris offers a more effective alternative. Also, Bank of America gives new parents more time off and an activist investor demands gender pay equality.

In one of its biggest splashes since first making Amazon Dash Button payments available nearly a year ago, the Seattle-based online shopping giant says it has tripled the number of brands that support its WiFi instant ordering system.

First Data Corp. paid Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano $51.6 million in 2015, almost twice what his former boss, JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon, received last year.

The payments pioneer is transforming its merchant cash advance into a business loan, a move that has significant legal and regulatory implications.

Square Inc. is introducing a new e-commerce tool that lets merchants collect payments on their websites, putting the San Francisco company in more direct competition with online payments leader PayPal Holdings Inc.

A former staff attorney with New York's city government has been named the top lawyer for the New York State Department of Financial Services.

The president and chief banking officer at Heritage Oaks Bancorp in Paso Robles, Calif., plans to leave the company next month.

EBay has become a member of the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, making it the first e-commerce company to achieve FIDO certification.

HomeTrust Bancshares in Asheville, N.C., will name a the former North Carolina market president for Fifth Third Bancorp to its board, along with two other professionals.