Thales e-Security Inc. and Aconite have joined forces to make smart card transactions more secure, whether from an EMV card or mobile device.

The tide continues to shift in favor of the payments industry in the United Kingdom’s battle against card fraud.

The tide continues to shift in favor of the payments industry in the United Kingdom’s battle against card fraud.

This year certainly has not seen a slowdown in digital-wallet development. Except if one is looking for a wallet offered by a bank.

Heartland Payments Systems Inc. is expanding merchant payment-acceptance flexibility and enhancing customer convenience by making its Mobuyle platform compatible with Apple Inc. iOS mobile devices, the company announced March 12.

Four consumer technology brands–Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google–are gathering strength and momentum and have the ability to win in a world of integrated social media and payments, one analyst contends.

Collection agencies and banks are more often using social media to proactively build their brand images, rather than waiting to react to negative customers comments.

Every data-security and fraud-prevention vendor or payments-industry analyst offers similar advice to banks and merchants about protecting customer card data and personal information.

Every data-security and fraud-prevention vendor or payments-industry analyst offers similar advice to banks and merchants about protecting customer card data and personal information.

Green Dot Corp. has agreed to buy location-based deals company Loopt Inc., the prepaid card marketer announced March 9.

LAS VEGAS–The mobile marketplace could be breeding more than just interest among shoppers seeking convenience or special deals.

BEAVERTON, Ore. – Rivermark CU has begun offering its members mobile deposit from Vertifi, which allows members to deposit paper checks using their iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Android mobile devices.

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – Community Choice CU on Thursday said its signed with Jack Henry & Associates to implement iPay Technologies’ Biz 2.0 small business online bill pay platform.

Despite the relentless onslaught of news about mobile-payment initiatives, there’s very little paying by phone going on, new research suggests.

ZipZap Inc. and SafetyPay have formed a partnership designed to help more underbanked consumers to make purchases online, the companies announced March 7.

This is an updated version of an earlier story.

Some eight out of 10 adults in South Korea own at least one credit card, highlighting the saturation in the country’s card market, new survey data suggest.

Consumer confidence grew again in February, fueled by a more optimistic outlook for the economy and personal finances, according to the Discover U.S. Spending Monitor, a daily poll tracking economic sentiment and spending plans of nearly 8,200 consumers throughout the month.

Cloud-based compliance and data-security provider Trustwave soon will add Web security to its portfolio through the acquisition of M86 Security, an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of advanced antimalware technology.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc., which prefers to be known as FIS, has named Greg Schaffer as its new chief information security officer.