Call eBay Inc.'s new acquisition the German version of Bill Me Later.

PayPal calls it a “very small test.” But what the eBay Inc. payments unit learns from the Near Field Communication initiative in Sweden could help with the company’s overall mobile-payments strategy to seek point-of-sale technologies that complement its cloud-based digital wallet.

EBay Inc. has acquired BillSafe, a provider of purchase-on-invoice technology in Germany, the online-auction provider announced Dec. 22.

The three top mobile operators in Japan have agreed to work together to plan out a roadmap for the adoption of multiple Near Field Communication technologies in the country.

The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against a telemarketing operation that allegedly made illegal robocalls, called phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry and violated the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule by masking Caller ID information.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander when it comes to credit card portfolio sales these days.

One-third of consumers have used mobile banking, but concerns regarding the security and privacy of the technology persist, new survey data suggest.

Coles Supermarkets is looking to get customers through its checkout lines faster through acceptance of contactless payments, Australia’s second-largest supermarket chain announced last week.

Eastern Europe gets a bad rap when it comes to payment card data security, but the region does not experience considerably more hacking-attack incidents than do other parts of the world. But it is a main source of such incidents, an industry analyst contends.

Myriad payments companies this year created presence on such social media sites as Facebook and Twitter. But while it was important to roll with the times, the effort may not help to create long-term loyal customers.

After conducting field tests with banks across such cities as Pune and Nasik, Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. now plans to do a nationwide rollout of its standalone, carrier agnostic mobile-payment service.

A Stanford University professor has filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission urging it to investigate Verizon Wireless’s blocking of Google Wallet on its new smartphone.

ELKHARDT, Ind. – INOVA FCU has installed Mortgagebot’s PowerSite, an integrated, point-of-sale multi-channel online lending solution.

Eastern Europe gets a bad rap when it comes to payment card data security, but the region does not experience considerably more hacking-attack incidents than do other parts of the world. But it is a main source of such incidents, an industry analyst contends.

New credit card account originations will increase in 2012, but both issuers and cardholders will be cautious, according to a forecast Moody’s Investors Service released Dec. 16.

As banks reinvest in technology to serve the small business segment, vendors are stepping up their offerings to meet the demand.

With no governing body regulating the payments industry in the United States, card data security for online service merchants can be an iffy proposition.

LATHAM, N.Y.-Duck Pirates, the only Android, iPhone and iPad game created by a credit union, has been downloaded about 38,000 times since it was introduced by Sunmark FCU here in May.

ST. LOUIS – Anheuser-Busch Employees’ CU has signed with TRC Interactive to implement the company’s First Line of Defense-Fraud Detection and Loss Prevention Challenge, an online interactive exercise that helps credit union staff focused on the latest frauds.

DES MOINES -- Online payments service Dwolla released a new feature called Instant that gives users access to cash instantly, avoiding the two- to three-day waiting period for transfer of funds.