David Heun

The institution launched the PayQwig digital wallet in 2015 and made the mobile app available earlier this year to link a mobile wallet to Tesco shoppers' Clubcard to earn points each time it was used.

China's Metaverse Foundation collaborated with Russian crypto investment bank CyberTrust to create the Cryptocurrency Fund to support ICO projects from China and Russia through KICKICO's crypto crowdfunding platform.

SIA also plans to power payment cards in other currencies for solarisBank.

Payments startup UTRUST is calling its first step in building a bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments platform with consumer protections a huge success, despite events working against its industry in China.

Online payments and services provider Secure Trading will partner with payments marketplace COMO Global S.A. to make its gateway and acquiring services available to more providers and merchants worldwide.

The internet wasn't built to accommodate identity, which challenges initiatives to balance security with user efficiency.

When retailers run tests in which coupon offers are delivered directly to the Apple Pay or Android Pay mobile wallet, rather than as a simple text notification, the redemption potential skyrockets 300%.

On the surface, Android Pay may not seem that different from the Google Wallet launched four years before it. Ultimately, it took the failure of multiple mobile wallets for Android Pay to find its own path.

Mobile wallet adoption in the U.S. is slow, and the payments industry has only itself to blame.

Square Inc.'s addition of mobile chip-and-PIN in the U.K. and Australia markets is setting a precedent that some in the U.S. are loath to follow.