David Heun

The payments and financial technology world is moving ahead at high speed. But an acquirer may feel like the only one on the road obeying the speed limit while other companies zoom ahead.

Few companies can claim to have created a wildly successful mobile wallet app. Even fewer can claim to have done it twice in a row.

In the first half of 2016, the payments industry had its most active six months of merger-and-acquisition activity since the second half of 2014.

The regulatory winds swirling around acquirers and independent sales organizations are so swift, those who can't stay abreast of the changes are likely to get blown away.

Every product has a "sell by" date, and so should every independent sales organization.

Every product has a "sell by" date, and so should every independent sales organization.

Vantiv had a specific vision in mind when acquiring Mercury Payment Systems two years ago to provide the ultimate playground for app developers to operate in a multi-channel world.

Patrons of the GC Express gas station in Caro, Mich., have another choice to make at the pump: Do they want to pay with a credit union's mobile banking app?

To hear PayPal CEO Dan Schulman tell it, his company's agreement with Visa this week is a transformative and history-making deal. But in at least one way, PayPal must make sure that history does not repeat itself.

They say to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and First Data's Clover operation did just that.