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Despite constant calls to action, U.S. credit card issuers may still be too complacent about card fraud — even as the fallout from massive data breaches snowballs.

Shopkick now works with both Visa and MasterCard to offer targeted rewards using transaction data gathered at the point of sale.

Though ZooZ is now the exclusive payment option for merchants that use the mobile commerce platform provider MobiCart, this week's agreement linking the two tech companies is, paradoxically, about providing access to as many payment options as possible.

Google announced revisions to its mobile wallet that make it a more palatable choice for the sale of digital goods.

Toys "R" Us' relaunched credit card from GE Capital has a bunch of new features to drive repeat purchases in its latest play against competitors such as Target and Wal-Mart, both of which lack such specialized rewards.

When Global Payments last March revealed it had suffered a data breach, executives at tokenization vendor Protegrity began what amounted to a verbal campaign calling for fraud liability to shift to processors. Elavon must have thought Protegrity was onto something.

For ATM deployments in Canada's 7-Eleven convenience stores, it's CIBC out and Scotiabank in. And 7-Eleven is getting new machines to boot.

For small merchants, the annual compliance questionnaire for the PCI Standard has become increasingly complex. First Data hopes to make the process simple again by using technology.

Square is adding more features to set its reader apart from the various other smartphone plug-ins that can also read magnetic-stripe cards.

JPMorgan Chase's Chase Paymentech has begun supplying retailers and other merchants with new terminals that can accept payments from smartphones and cards embedded with computer chips.

Fraudsters are taking their attacks on banks and payment companies to alarming new levels using automation and cloud-based servers, according to a new report from Guardian Analytics and McAfee.

Consumers weary of shuffling through various credit cards to get the best rewards could get relief from a new service that automates the selection of the proper card.

To get to the Olympics this year, most people pay for tickets. One couple might get there by paying for a soda.

The long-time leaders in manufacturing payment terminals are adapting to respond to the likes of Square Inc., which this month said that some 2 million individuals and small businesses are using its dongle and mobile application to accept cards using smartphones.

American Express Co. has hatched a new name for its corporate digital payments service to drive home the message that it offers more than just cards for buyers initiating transactions.

Mobile wallet mania is experiencing another surge that some consider overblown.

The credit card tech provider Paynet Systems has added a tool to its Credit Card Machine app that allows merchants to request reviews on social media at the end of a transaction.

Positive credit card charge-off trends resumed during May as the average charge-off rate for credit card receivables in securitized trusts fell, reaching its lowest point since October 2007, Moody's said June 22.

MasterCard, with a headcount of 6,700, is taking some of its cues in mobile payments from the likes of PaidPiper, a six-month-old company with just 10 employees. The card network is relying in part on ideas from the start-up to design its software tools for developers in mobile payments.

The Girl Scout troops are once again proving to be an ideal test case for mobile card acceptance.