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Merchant Warehouse is closing more deals, raising morale and convincing employees and contractors not to move on to other companies—all with the help of the Certified Payments Professional credential.

As with any new technology, mobile wallets must earn the trust of the consumers and merchants who would use them. Many mobile payment apps may attempt to beef up security with password and PIN protection, but a few have had their security scrutinized very publicly.

BBVA Compass is testing a new drive-through concept that includes units that stream video so car-bound customers can communicate with tellers. It's the latest example of how banks are rethinking physical and digital channels.

Starbucks is reportedly storing mobile app users' passwords in a manner that makes them accessible to a hacker with access to a user's phone, creating potential security risks that could erode consumer confidence in mobile payments.

A tour of PayPal's innovation showroom offers a glimpse of the company's latest technology, how PayPal is tying together e-commerce channels, and how it intends to dominate the mobile wallet the way it has online payments.

Receipts, typically a scrap of paper many shoppers throw away, can be easily reimagined as a tool to improve customer engagement, says Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square.

A super ISO is combining transaction services, electronic marketing and tablet technology to create a compelling “bundle” for ISOs and agents to sell.

Bitcoin is gaining legitimacy as an alternative to cash and card payments, but for all its popularity, the digital currency has many limitations. Here are a few.

SmartMetric Inc. is launching a Bitcoin card protected with biometric fingerprint authentication. The card can be used as offline storage for bitcoins, but in the future it might also be used for payment.

The new online savings account Dream adds to the online bank's existing savings and CD mix and comes with some twists: deposit restrictions and goal-based account tools expected to come by yearend.

The nation's cash machines are becoming outmoded because of EMV, the end of a key Windows operating system, and issues raised by the ADA and PCI.

SCVNGR's LevelUp expected merchants would prefer its Interchange Zero pricing for mobile payments, but many clients told the company they would prefer to pay a 2% transaction fee.

OnPoint Community Credit Union is using person-to-person payments as the foundation of building consumer comfort with mobile as a channel for money movement.

TrueCar, Tesla Motors and Uber approach auto lending from sharply different perspectives , but each, in its own way, is dragging the slow-to-adapt industry into the future.