Bailey Reutzel

Mobile check-in and pay has been underused in most markets, but a German bagel shop hopes the technology can encourage normally cash-reliant Germans to go digital.

The micro-merchants that were first enabled to accept magstripe card payments from mobile card-reader are now getting the ability to accept contactless payments with hardware from Ingenico.

As the number of Chinese students studying abroad increases, Geoswift is building out relationships with language schools and universities to mend the disjointed process of collecting tuition payments.

Gemalto reassured investors this morning that the alleged attacks by U.S. and U.K. government agents only breached the company's office network and could not have led to theft of encryption keys, which are considered an important part of digital payments security.

Like a number of startups and "neobanks" that have sprouted up to challenge incumbent retail banks, Fidor Bank is positioning itself as a more consumer-friendly, tech-savvy alternative.

A technology-savvy German bank's plan to open a branchless banking platform in the U.S. could eventually pave the way for more mainstream use of cryptocurrency platforms, such as Ripple and Bitcoin.

The financial services industry may be focused exclusively on securing payment card credentials, but other sensitive data can benefit from these efforts.

With the breach threat showing no signs of slowing, security companies are rapidly broadening their systems to simultaneously fight identity fraud stemming from clients' consumers and employees.

Mangopay's expansion to London is off to a fast start, as the payments technology company has already reached a deal with Liftshare, the U.K.'s largest car sharing community.

Crowdfunding has become all the rage, and it's making some banks nervous about losing small business clients. But investUP, a "supermarket of crowdfunding platforms" that launched during Finovate Europe in London this week, thinks banks can benefit from the trend.

Mobile banking apps that allow consumers to proactively lock their debit cards, or limit their cards' use to specific scenarios, could shift the way banks manage fraud and even enable them to place some of the liability on the consumer.

TransferTo has launched a global value remittance hub to connect money transfer providers such as Western Union and WorldRemit to local merchants.

Transpay is launching a mass payout feature which allows users of its cross-border payments platform to send funds to a recipient's bank account within minutes.

For two and a half years, Celine Lazorthes and her team at Leetchi, a group-payment provider for gifts and events, struggled with the regulatory requirements needed to become an e-money issuer in Europe.

Deployments of biometrics are usually fairly challenging, but Apple has demonstrated through its Touch ID fingerprint system that it can scale a consumer biometric technology quickly. London-based ValidSoft predicts it can do the same for voice biometrics by using the microphone built into most consumer gadgets.

The U.K. is rapidly becoming a target for payment crime, with malware on the rise and the country poised for fraud spikes as crooks abandon EMV-protected terminals to target the more vulnerable e-commerce channel.

Mangopay, a white-label payment solution provider for marketplaces, has opened an office at Level 39, London's largest technology accelerator.

Apple Pay's Touch ID is the exception, not the rule. Biometric security typically requires some type of add-on hardware, a model that has struggled to get much adoption over the years.

If consumers, designers and artists led the discussion about how we make payments in the future, they would likely come out with a vastly different system than the one technologists are creating today.

Monitise is pushing aggressively into new markets to build its profile, but mobile financial services' impact on traditional technology development is threatening the company's relevance.