Do credit bureaus need to be held to higher levels of accountability for the massive amounts of consumer data they hold?

Apple is interviewing payments industry executives, according to the technology news site Recode, suggesting the computing giant is getting closer to launching a payments operation.

Global payments processor Optimal Payments Plc has reached a five-year agreement with Ontario Lottery and Gaming.

Until recently, Venus' approach to customer rewards was simple. It simply didn't have a program.

JPMorgan Chase will build on its developments in tokenization for a digital wallet that it plans to roll out by the end of the year.

Domino's Pizza customers with Android devices can now pay for their pizza through the Google Wallet.

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — CU Service Network, here, has teamed up with fellow CUSO CUProdigy to offer a core software platform, following CUProdigy's rewrite of its core product.

Square is seeking a buyer, according to multiple reports, but the company's official statement indicates otherwise.

After alerting its customers in January that its arts and crafts store chain had suffered a potential data breach, Michaels Stores Inc. confirmed last week that at least 2.6 million cards may have been affected.

Pharmacy chain CVS Caremark Corp. is launching a new service that will allow customers to pay their monthly health insurance bills at the drugstore.

TAMPA, Fla.—While enhancing technology is ever-important to the lifeblood of a credit union, ensuring systems and processes are streamlined is also critical to success. Grow Financial Credit Union's assistant vice president of network services James Stock provides an inside view of operations.

CHICAGO—For many credit unions, partnering with a third-party vendor to tailor a suite of services is a dream scenario. Alliant Credit Union got to live the dream when it teamed up with Hyland Software tweaking its OnBase enterprise content management solution.

OLYMPIA, Wash.—Credit unions have a reputation as early adopters of new technologies, but developing and implementing in-house grass root inventive ideas has been more vexing. Sometimes an outside partner is needed. Here's what happened when Washington State Employees CU teamed with Best Innovation Group.

The merchant's website made it seem like an ordinary seller of car washing equipment. But a closer look revealed it was a portal to crime, according to Melissa Andrews.

Biometric technology could eliminate the need to carry a payment card or even a smartphone by allowing users to authorize payments with a fingerprint, handprint, face or retina scan. But the technology has had a rocky past, and each new product comes with new quirks.

WorldPay opened its first China sales office to help it reach more merchants who accept payments online.

Walmart's new "Walmart-2-Walmart" transfer service will enable consumers to send money to each other by using the retail chain's store network.

The full capabilities of a core-processing platform are often underutilized until a CU is ready to fire on all cylinders.

Creditron and MediStreams are teaming to automate payments processing for small to mid-sized health care practices, which typically manage transactions and consumer records manually.

Many e-commerce merchants are not set up to accept the payment methods local to Brazil, Russia, India and China (referred to as the BRIC nations), and BlueSnap aims to work with these merchants through a series of new templates.