David Heun

Mastercard has launched its quick-response mobile payments system in India through its Masterpass mobile wallet, designed to help mobile banking users complete purchases through their mobile phones at the physical point of sale.

Zopa is moving away from its longtime status of being a non-bank to apply for a banking license through the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority.

Merchants may have gained an edge in their dispute with Visa over how EMV debit transaction routing is handled at the point of sale.

If a consumer is willing to shop online through a mobile device while sitting on the toilet, retailers need to be in the bathroom with that shopper during the holiday season. At least, PayPal sees it that way.

If a consumer is willing to shop online through a mobile device while sitting on the toilet, retailers need to be in the bathroom with that shopper during the holiday season. At least, PayPal sees it that way.

Banking and payments technology provider linked2pay has added the real-time payments platform from Push Payments to its services for bank clients.

Digital payments security provider V-Key will protect the cloud-based payments network of Ant Financial Services Group (Alipay) with its virtual secure element software.

Payments technology plays a major role in web connected city projects globally.

On Dec. 7, Dwolla will drop its consumer-facing applications like its mobile app and Dwolla.com

Platforms designed for face-to-face or paper transactions may not be the best enabler of payments through connected devices, but a system born out of the digital payments world could fare better.