Square, which built its business on the simplicity of its plug-in payment device, is piling on services that should make banks and other companies take notice.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Despite the slow adoption of point-of-sale mobile payments in the U.S., credit unions should begin preparing today for when the payments method takes off.

NEW YORK — The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions is in the midst of a long-term project to help small credit unions reduce expenses around core banking systems and find efficiencies though collaboration.

Wallaby Financial and CreditCards.com are offering a new Web app that recommends payment cards and rewards programs based partly in how consumers make payments.

LevelUp has updated its mobile payment app with a feature that empowers consumers to immediately notify the company of problems they experience with its mobile payment app.

Even though app development is considered a fast-paced environment, developers often wait a long time to receive payments, says Pollen CEO and co-founder Martin Macmillan.

The two most popular Bitcoin services providers, Coinbase and BitPay, are neck-and-neck in signing up merchants to accept digital currency.

AT&T is planning to test a fraud-detection service that will allow credit card companies to track the locations of customers who opt in.

Square is releasing a new service called Square Invoices, which allows merchants and other sellers to send bills to customers.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers appear increasingly concerned about issues related to student lending, including the possibility that the record level of student loan debt could end up damaging the economy.

A new digital divide is emerging for the millions of Americans without a bank account or who pay for goods and services with cash—and technology will be key to bridging it.

The e-commerce payment processing provider Adyen is trying to capture more business in Asia from the growing number of merchants who want to sell to North America and other regions.

U.S. citizens traveling to Brazil for the World Cup have been warned: beware the chupacabra. Card cloning is common in Brazil, so U.S. citizens should take precautions when withdrawing money and check account activity often, the U.S. Citizen Services office in Brazil said on its Twitter account.

Starbucks customers in South Korea will be the first to use the coffee giant’s popular mobile payment app to place an order and pay for it before they show up at the store.

Sam's Club plans to launch a cash back program for a new co-branded MasterCard that will also leverage EMV-chip technology, providing some much-needed momentum for the EMV migration in the U.S.

A data dump by hacktivists called Anonymous Ukraine, which triggered American Express to notify nearly 77,000 California residents of potential exposed information, is posing a public relations challenge for the card brand even though it says its internal systems were not breached.

About 25,000 people around the world are being paid in Bitcoin on a regular basis by posting content on Women's Annex, a blogging platform predominantly focused on Afghanistan, and its parent site Film Annex.

Elizabeth Buse, a former Visa executive who left the card network this year after a 16-year career with the company, has been named co-CEO of Monitise Group.

No organization is immune to data breaches–especially small businesses without access to the same resources as larger merchants, requiring a vigorous security program that includes EMV and other protections at the point of sale.

Harris and Hoole, a coffee chain supported by U.K. grocery company Tesco PLC, is accepting mobile payments at the point of sale in each of its 36 stores throughout the country.