David Heun

Discover is offering its version of Quick Chip for merchants to speed up the EMV chip card checkout process at the point of sale.

After saying it would not support Android Pay in the U.K, Barclays is leaning on device agnostic mobile technology and its own developers to launch its own payments app for the operating system.

American Express has joined Visa and MasterCard in adjusting chargeback policies for merchants that have not yet migrated to chip card payments.

With 63% of all data breaches resulting from stolen, weak or default passwords, and recent compromises targeting millions of stored passwords, Fast Identity Online Alliance members say the time is now for device manufacturers and e-commerce merchants to embrace new authorization technology.

Visa Europe Ltd., operating as an entirely separate company and a bank membership association for nearly a decade after Visa Inc. became a publicly traded company, had a news flash for its members June 21, proclaiming: "We are One Visa" on its Website.

Following a similar move from Visa last week, MasterCard is streamlining EMV certification and will adjust its fraud-cost policy for non-EMV compatible merchants.

Many of the major mergers and acquisitions in the payments industry the past few years have had an underlying goal -- improve chances to make a splash in retail omnichannel payments.

Tablet-based point-of-sale provider Appetize has landed the contract to provide terminals at the new U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis, where games for the NFL Minnesota Vikings, and other special events will take place.

Visa is acknowledging a merchant EMV migration logjam by loosening fraud chargeback policies and enabling faster chip card certifications for merchants.

Built 13 years ago on the premise that it is not easy for charitable organizations to get donations into developing countries facing a natural disaster, INTL FCStone Ltd. has transformed itself into a cross-border payments provider that banks and corporations have increasingly found useful.