Daniel Wolfe

The Kerv contactless payments ring, a Kickstarter-backed project that reached its funding goal in October 2015, has begun production.

Android Pay is now a payment option for users of the food-ordering apps Grubhub and Seamless, both of which are products of Grubhub Holdings Inc.

Apple Pay is coming to the Mobile Web.

Her prepaid card may have been short-lived, but superstar Kim Kardashian West still has opinions about payments.

As more mobile apps and businesses push plastic payments to the background, they also give prepaid card accounts a chance to reclaim the spotlight.

Google’s upcoming personal assistant and cross-platform messaging apps make substantial use of payments, though the transactions exist entirely in the background to encourage a smooth user experience.

Back in 2014, Dekkers Davidson, then CEO of the Merchant Customer Exchange, declared that the mobile wallet venture would draw inspiration from Uber and be just as disruptive to financial services as the popular ride-sharing app was to the taxi industry. But Uber's success stems largely from its decision to make payments invisible, whereas MCX was developing its CurrentC wallet to do just the opposite.

Uber riders that prefer to pay with Google Wallet will have to switch to Android Pay on May 9, according to emails reportedly sent out to Google Wallet users.

Everything that makes Chase Pay possible is built on the foundation of ChaseNet.

Biometric authentication is coming to numerous e-commerce merchants who may not realize that it will be a part of their checkout process, depending on the issuers involved.