The EMV liability shift is a little over a year away, yet many merchants are unprepared for chip card acceptance. Recent data breaches have increased consumer awareness of card security issues.

Many mobile payments vendors pile on features to set themselves apart, but Push for Pizza has a different philosophy. It lets consumers purchase a pizza, and that's it.

It's hard to design a Disney's "Frozen" cake with a cash register, but it works like magic with a tablet, according to Dallas-area Society Bakery.

Banks and other lenders appear to be waiting on a regulatory signal from the Federal Housing Finance Agency before approving loans for borrowers with less than stellar credit profiles.

NXT-ID is working with Joey Fatone, former member of the boy band N*Sync, to kick off a series of celebrity endorsements for its biometric Wocket wallet.

Visa has launched a new service called Visa Transaction Advisor, which is designed to help U.S. gas stations identify higher-risk credit and debit card transactions at the pump.

Credit unions are on alert but also taking a wait-and-see approach following news that a gang of Russian hackers have amassed 1.2 billion sets of user names and passwords.

Metrobank Card Corp. in the Philippines has signed an agreement to license the latest version of Total System Services' (TSYS) payment processing platform.

FICO has launched a credit risk prognosis tool that financial institutions can use to stress-test their consumer loan portfolios.

In the age of digital commerce, more business are using third parties to manage operations, increasing the risk to any payments data they handle, says the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.

BitPay's recent decision to eliminate its fees for small merchants sacrifices some of the company's revenue to boost the larger Bitcoin economy.

Recently we have seen both Argentina and Ukraine fall into two very different types of crises, but the economic results appear to be the same.

As computing devices get closer to the body, Westpac New Zealand is exploring how wearables such as smartwatches and Google Glass can be used for payments and other financial services.

Global Payments Inc., a global processor servicing more than one million merchants, will enable its clients to accept digital currency in a move that may attract more international shoppers to brick-and-mortar merchants.

TAMPA, Fla. — GTE Financial has a new mobile application that lets members save cash, and with a few taps on their smart phones, apply that money to their credit union mortgage or auto loan.

Wipit has updated its mobile application to allow consumers to make payments by displaying a bar code at the point of sale.

P.F. Chang's has provided an update on the data breach it disclosed in June, revealing that the incident affected 33 restaurants with a specific timeframe for each location.

Churn is always a threat and declines can happen at any time–not just when customers are up for renewal.

The Oyster contactless payment card is no longer the only fish in the sea for London's mass transit network, which will accept contactless payments via credit and debit cards by mid-September.

Walt Disney Co.'s experiment in payment-capable wearables can probably be declared a success, with the company reporting that about half of Walt Disney World guests sport MagicBands.