BALTIMORE – Horsetail Technologies and Credit Union Journal have partnered to make an extraordinary offer that will result in one credit union receiving a $100,000 Extreme Network Makeover.

Global Payments Inc.’s massive data breach underscores the need for the U.S. to embrace the EMV standard without delay, at least one chip card proponent contends.

Users of some Chicago Transit Authority parking lots can pay for parking with their mobile phones. But it will cost them an extra 35 cents.

By acquiring two payment-security technology companies the past few months, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. contends it is in a position to provide its clients with conformance evaluation and security advice on virtually all aspects of payments.

A European Credit Risk Survey conducted by FICO and Efma shows that a "credit gap" looms for small businesses in 2012.

News of the event rippled across mainstream Web sites over the past weekend, reawakening consumer and industry concerns about the risk to millions when criminals expose sensitive data, Mike Urban, director of financial crimes solutions at Fiserv Inc., tells PaymentsSource, a Collections & Credit Risk sister publication.

BALTIMORE – Horsetail Technologies and Credit Union Journal have partnered to make an extraordinary offer that will result in one credit union receiving a $100,000 Extreme Network Makeover.

Google Inc.’s purchase of prepaid card processor TxVia illustrates the search engine operator’s commitment to shore up its digital wallet's risk-management capabilities, particularly in light of some recent snafus.

With e-commerce fraud showing no signs of slowing and a strong possibility of increasing, acquirers and their merchants could use all the detection help they can get.

A division of Jack Henry & Associates is partnering with ACH Alert to offer new products to mitigate losses from automated clearinghouse and wire fraud.

Creative newcomers offering bill-payment services, such as Pageonce, Mint, Bill.com, Billeo, Doxo, Manilla, Volly and Zumbox, are gaining traction while many banks are missing out on the service’s strong retention potential, suggests a new report released April 3.

Consumers, it appears, are not getting sufficient support in helping them conduct mobile banking and payments.

Many Internet users in South Korea haven’t increased the protection of their private information even though many have borne the brunt of hacking and voice-phishing scams over the past few years, a new report suggests.

Google Inc. has acquired prepaid card processor TxVia, the companies announced April 2.

Consumers still have faith in payment cards, but Global Payments Inc.'s massive data breach will make life tougher for issuers trying to reassure audiences that all is well.

Nongovernment holders of delinquent mortgages are offering more payment plans with debt forgiveness as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac resist, according to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

American Express Co. has hired a new technology executive for the team that handles its digital wallet, Serve, the card company announced April 2.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. is launching three smartphone applications for college campus cards, the Princeton, N.J.-based merchant processor announced April 2.

The Global Payments Inc. breach and others like it suggest banks should rethink how they protect card data.

A chip-and-signature route to U.S. EMV adoption certainly would be less painful for banks and merchants than would the chip-and-PIN approach used most everywhere else, but taking the easy way out carries risk.