David Heun

Plastiq has launched an iPhone app that allows consumers in the U.S. and Canada to snap a photo of their bills to pay them.

American Express is determined to minimize the damage from losing profitable Costco cardholders in Canada and the U.S., and is taking steps to keep as many of those customers in the Amex fold as possible.

American Express is determined to minimize the damage from losing profitable Costco cardholders in Canada and the U.S., and is taking steps to keep as many of those customers in the Amex fold as possible.

E-commerce fraud prevention provider Forter has secured $30 million in a funding round supported through Scale Venture Partners and its current investors.

Ingenico Group is confident it can translate consumers' love for big-screen entertainment into a payments technology blockbuster.

When EMV came to market in Europe in the 1990s, it entered a world with a much less robust communications infrastructure than what the U.S. has today. So, following the launch of EMV in the U.S., Visa decided it was time to break some old habits.

As mobile wallets become more popular they'll also become more popular targets for fraud. Banks ought to improve enrollment guidelines and other security tools in plotting their mobile-wallet strategy.

The Clearing House and FIS say they are less than a year away from testing the first real-time payments network in the U.S., focusing on bill payment through early-adopter financial institutions.

The Chargent payment processing software on the Salesforce AppExchange has integrated with Bank Centric Payments to create a new gateway option and bolster “real time” transaction processing.

BBVA Bancomer is partnering with media giant Univision to launch a digital money transfer service for the Hispanic population in the U.S.