David Heun

LevelUp has worked mostly with smaller merchants. It's relationship with the merchant-focused Chase Pay will give it access to a much larger group of retailers.

Large banks will soon launch Zelle, their person-to-person payments app. Will it succeed or will it be another name on a growing list of such platforms that never panned out?

The potential user base is huge. Tencent Holdings has 846 million global monthly active-user WeChat accounts, and more than 300 million have linked bank cards.

Consumer tastes for person-to-person payment apps differ widely from one market to another, and also change rapidly over time.

The collaboration gives Apple Pay an entry into the freelance payment market, an industry that's growing fast but underserved.

The Secure Keys dongle has worked well to vet internal staff at Google, and the search giant sees a number of other uses for the hardware.

Vantiv has made a name for itself the past two years in advancing integrated payments at the point of sale, while also welcoming application developers to interact with the company's technology through Vantiv ONE. Its latest move puts its focus on e-commerce.

The opening of the 2016 holiday season, which marks the first full year since the country's major EMV fraud liability shift, is proving what data security experts feared all along.

The opening of the 2016 holiday season, which marks the first full year since the country's major EMV fraud liability shift, is proving what data security experts feared all along.

Apple Pay users will have the option to make payments with gift and loyalty cards through an arrangement with Blackhawk Network's digital stored value system.