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India’s largest credit card issuer, SBI Cards Pvt. Ltd., has launched a cobranded card with an online travel-booking company in an attempt to corner a larger share of the travel-payments market.

With mobile-payment technology advancing seemingly at the speed of a mobile payment itself, one has to wonder how long it might be before consumers wouldn’t need, or even possess, plastic cards to conduct transactions.

Still mourning the demise of overdraft-fee income, smaller banks nevertheless are finding a variety of ways to compensate.

Visa Inc. scored a coup in persuading Kevin Knight, Nordstrom Inc.'s credit card czar, to oversee its credit and debit card products in North America.

Tough economic times are not dogging JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s upscale credit card customers, if the issuer's growing array of pricey credit cards is any indication.

Financial institutions in the Shazam electronic funds transfer network now may help their members with identity-theft recovery, a process that can be costly in both dollars and time.

Nordstrom Inc.'s credit card czar is joining Visa Inc.

China UnionPay and Shinhan Card Co. Ltd. have signed an agreement under which Shinhan Card will issue UnionPay credit cards in South Korea this year, the companies announced last week.

Voice-phishing scams were the cause of the most credit card disputes in the South Korean card market last year, according to a new report by Credit Finance Association of Korea.

Alliance Data Systems has renewed a long-term agreement to manage the private-label credit card program for luxury goods retailer Little Switzerland, the companies announced March 27.

Unobtrusive until now, a set of unrelated security requirements is about to become pretty unpopular, and costly.

India is working to widen the scope of its landmark Kisan credit card by making the product usable as a financial-inclusion tool in addition to its original purpose as a credit tool for farmers.

Life at Fiserv Inc., it seems, is good. And others increasingly are reaping the rewards.

Credit card issuers' account charge-off rates, already exceptionally low, remain on track to hit bottom later this year.

Building on its earlier acquisition of alternative payments platform eBillme, The Western Union Co. has announced a payment product that broadens its appeal beyond its traditionally unbanked consumer base.

To make a successful digital payments product, American Express Co. is shedding a lot of tradition.

Discover Financial Services’ Pulse debit network posted solid gains in the first quarter, but executives say a new rule banning network exclusivity could prove a hurdle going forward.

A federal court has rejected civil claims brought by five credit unions and one bank stemming from the massive 2008 data breach at Heartland Payment Systems that exposed millions of cardholders to fraudulent transactions.

Credit unions spy an opportunity in small business, an unusual market for usually consumer-focused financial institutions and a segment that comes with a fair share of tech hurdles to clear.

Discover Financial Services is partnering with the operator of Puerto Rico’s ATM and debit network as part of the payment card company’s ongoing effort to increase acceptance abroad by teaming with local networks.