Intuit Inc. is taking GoPayment north to Canada as the company looks to move the mobile card reader and application to countries outside the U.S.

Though Facebook members generally reveal much about their private lives in what amounts to an open forum when posting information on the social media site, they are not as trusting when it comes to spending money on the site.

Intel Corp. is using an authentication system from SecureKey Technologies Inc. in its Ultrabook computers.

Acquirers may be wrong if they believe they can coerce small merchants into complying with security standards by charging them fees.

It appears it might take at least a few more painful payment-terminal tampering breaches like those Lucky Supermarkets and Michaels Stores Inc. experienced last year before U.S. merchants and card issuers take action to support EMV chip cards.

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Three Arizona credit unions are partnering with Visa and Better ATM Services on new technology that is allowing the credit unions to dispense Visa Gift cards in addition to cash at their ATMs.

Given all the time and money banks have been putting into nascent mobile payment systems, the last thing they need is a new competitor parachuting into the mix, and in a more advantageous position.

The sluggish market for credit card portfolios may pick up this year, if card losses continue to abate and potential buyers stay on the path of rebuilding capital.

Acquirers should mention security to merchants more often. A lot more often–every time they make a sales call, field a complaint, explain a regulation, solve a technical problem, send an email message, mail a monthly statement or launch a direct-mail campaign.

The number of companies caught in data breaches exposing consumers’ credit, debit and bank account numbers is growing, but the best way to make amends to customers is not yet clear.

PayPal Inc. is testing its point-of-sale software in five Home Depot stores in the latest part of the online payments company's campaign to cut out traditional networks Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide.

Upromise, a Sallie Mae-owned rewards program, agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it collected consumers' personal information without adequately disclosing the extent of the information it collected, the FTC announced.

EL MONTE, Calif. – SCE FCU is rolling out a mobile banking offering to its members that includes downloadable apps for the iPhone, Android and a universal Mobile Browser App.

There might not be a better time to enter the mobile-payments arena than now.

VeriFone Systems Inc. is working on an add-on to Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet that slips on to the device and transforms it into a payment terminal that can scan barcodes.

Fiserv Inc.’s CheckFree and CashEdge subsidiaries have filed a patent infringement suit against Fidelity National Information Services alleging FIS’s Metavante unit is infringing on Fiserv’s patents for electronic bill payment and presentment and person-to-person payments, which are being used by thousands of credit unions and banks, the technology company announced Jan. 5.

A payment processor and two of its principals are banned from using a new payment method to process electronic payments under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The settlement resolves charges that they debited consumers' bank accounts without their consent.

Consumers have long memories when it comes to a loss of trust in a bank or card company from a data breach. The damage from a spate of high-profile consumer data breaches over the past year appeared to bruise trust in several major brands, including that of Citigroup Inc.

Two polls suggest consumers might be planning to lean more on credit cards again after overindulging in card use before the recession. And though the economy remains relatively sluggish, fewer Americans seem worried about their personal debt.

Social media compliance is a subject that elicits a range of reactions from planners, from groans to cautious, curious questions. But Leia Farmer, the deputy chief compliance officer at Securities America, is excited about it.