David Heun

Kohl's department stores have joined the mobile wallet movement, offering customers the option to link their closed-loop Kohl's Charge cards to the company's mobile app to make mobile payments and redeem rewards.

Harley Financial Services has launched business payments software HarleyPay for its merchant clients through provider linked2pay's Bank Centric Payments platform.

Facebook officially launched Marketplace today to make it easier for its users to buy and sell stuff with others near them. But for the time being, Facebook is keeping the payments aspect of this project at arm's length.

EMV chip cards have delivered on their promise to halt counterfeit fraud at the physical point of sale. But for a technology developed long before the invention of e-commerce, mobile wallets and the word "omnichannel," delivering on its promise still feels like falling short.

Seeking to lower the cost of cross-border payments in some currencies, INTL FCStone Ltd.'s global payments division is launching a real-time financial information exchange that will more accurately provide exchange rates.

Artificial intelligence could help make the payment process more efficient — if those in the payments industry understood how AI works.

Consumers using PayPal to complete an e-commerce transaction on a Lenovo laptop computer will be able to use an embedded fingerprint reader instead of a static password.

Independent sales organizations and independent software vendors are equally threatened by disruption, making an alliance a logical — if uneasy — step for both groups.

Mastercard's HomeSend joint venture is partnering with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia to provide more than 100 million Ethiopians the ability to send funds directly to any mobile number in the country.

Verified by Visa — which typically functioned as a way to improve security by adding a password to the online payment process — is phasing out the use of static passwords. Visa's plan is a chance to improve the standard for authenticating online commerce.