A company that provides services to more than 300 payday loan and check cashing stores, and an affiliated company, will pay to settle charges they allowed sensitive consumer information to be tossed into dumpsters.

Longtime bank critic Elizabeth Warren won her fight for a Senate seat late Tuesday, marking the end of a grueling and expensive campaign.

The first considerable change for the Bitcoin market nears — the date when rewards for 'mining' the digital currency drop from 50 to 25 bitcoins per block generated.

For CreditCall, the slow pace of the U.S. shift to the EMV standard is fast becoming an opportunity.

MALVERN, Penn. -- Akcelerant, a provider of software technology and advisory services to credit unions and banks, has agreed to acquire CorePROFIT Solutions, which provides profitability measurement, for among others, Mid-Atlantic Corporate FCU.

Facebook's latest update to its mobile app is meant to allow the social network's users to purchase physical goods as gifts from within the app.

Dunkin' Donuts, which launched a mobile-pay app for its stored-value cards in August, has updated its app to include a mobile offer system.

With a community-based state charter, Veridian Credit Union isn’t supposed to have members outside its market in Iowa. And yet the credit union has been handling funds nationwide for the alternative payment company Dwolla since 2009.

Encore Capital Group Inc., a San Diego-based debt buyer, reported the successful closing of a $575 million credit facility.

Banks need to get their acts together if they're going to offer consumers mobile wallets that can compete with user-friendly offerings from savvy alternative providers such as telecom companies.

It may not qualify yet as a combination of QuickBooks and mobile payments such as Intuit Inc. offers, but Braintree figures it is on the right path in working with an accounting services provider for online merchants.

Before superstorm Sandy left many without access to physical branches and ATMs, a bombardment of cyberattacks left many without virtual access — and unlike the storm, these cyberattacks are not going away.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Technology CU has launched its new mobile check deposit service, which it said is an enhancement to the credit union’s mobile banking application for iPhone and Android smart phones.

Lemon is working with BillGuard, which provides a transaction monitoring service, to boost its mobile wallet's security and perhaps also boost the wallet's appeal among consumers.

Brian Thompson, senior vice president at the finance consultant Equity Dynamics Inc., is joining the board of prepaid card provider BillMyParents.

The popular mobile-phone game Angry Birds is once again helping a new payments product take flight, with the introduction of a prepaid card with designs based on the game's theme.

Mobile commerce could move onto a fast, or at least faster, track if Inside Secure has solved the problem of limited access to the secure element in a mobile phone handset.

Issuers and merchants have heard the card brands’ pitch that without EMV smart card adoption in the U.S., fraudsters will flock to this country because it will become a weak link in the data security chain.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Greater TEXAS FCU introduced its free mobile app for Android and iPhone last week.

The Federal Trade Commission banned five Arizona and Florida companies that allegedly were responsible for millions of illegal pre-recorded robocalls from "Rachel" and "Cardholder Services."