VeriFone shares fell the most in more than two months after Starbucks, the largest coffee-shop chain, said it will use Square’s rival payment system in 7,000 stores.

Starbucks' $25 million investment in Square says a lot about the mobile payment provider's appeal to larger merchants — but the coffee chain's decision to leave out some of Square's technology also speaks volumes.

Acculynk, which supports PIN-debit card use online, announced American Airlines as the first major airline to go live with its PaySecure product.

Cardtronics expects the 6,200 machines its ATM Network Inc. acquisition brings to provide potential marketing and advertising opportunities.

An employment background screening firm that provides consumer reports to companies nationwide will pay $2.6 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

Banks continued to ease lending standards for larger firms in the past three months but small businesses are having a hard time accessing credit, according to the Federal Reserve.

Starbucks announced today that it is investing $25 million in Square and will begin using Square's mobile payment technology in its stores.

EAST WINDSOR, N.J. – McGraw-Hill FCU is launching its new mobile banking iPad app.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Fast-growing Navy Army Community CU said it has selected a range of Fiserv solutions to enhance its check deposit and processing services.

Citigroup is doing away with its cobranded ExxonMobil MasterCard and on Aug. 31 will introduce a new private-label gas card whose name, the ExxonMobil Smart Card, could be a bit misleading to payments-industry insiders in that it is not an EMV chip-card.

Experian/Moody's Analytics Small Business Credit Index edged up by less than one point in the second quarter, the third consecutive quarterly improvement after falling over much of 2011.

As social media becomes a more important part of its marketing strategy, JPMorgan Chase lining up partnerships in the hopes of getting its upscale credit card users communicating more online.

A free video series explaining financial statements and how to analyze them is available from The Kaplan Group through a link on the company's Web site.

GoPago's sales pitch is meant to make terminal manufacturers and independent sales organizations cringe: it is offering free hardware to support a cloud-based mobile payments system to small merchants, with no wiggle room on transaction fee pricing.

Companies establishing virtual currencies may not capture the imagination of consumers right away, but their technologies should catch the attention of traditional debit card issuers.

Across the industry, the formation of new credit problems has fallen to pre-recession levels. At some banks, however, assets have continued to sour at a troubling pace, according to second-quarter reports.

ViVOtech has sold its ViVOpay payment-hardware business, the company said Monday in a notice on its website.

FORT WORTH, Texas – American Airlines FCU has introduced its own version of mobile deposits called CUAcce$$.

No one affiliated with the Isis mobile payment initiative is saying exactly when the first testing in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas will begin, but the venture is steadily tying its remaining loose ends.

When people can easily book appointments with small merchants, they don't always show up — and this practice has sparked demand for a system that also accepts deposits, so that merchants can be compensated for no-shows. That same technology can make it easier for companies to accept payments through Facebook pages.