David Heun

Through a partnership with fraud prevention provider Ethoca, Total System Services Inc. is offering card issuers and merchants a new tool to prevent e-commerce chargebacks.

Payments providers experienced in cross-border transactions need only look to the Asian market to find the next golden opportunity.

U.S. consumers remain unimpressed by mobile wallets and annoyed by EMV, so something has to give at the point of sale. That something could be coupons.

Chase Pay is tied to the issuer's 94 million credit, debit and prepaid card accounts, representing half of U.S. households. Depending on the perspective, this means Chase's wallet either starts with — or excludes — half of the market.

Chase Pay is tied to the issuer's 94 million credit, debit and prepaid card accounts, representing half of U.S. households. Depending on the perspective, this means Chase's wallet either starts with — or excludes — half of the market.

Chase Pay, JPMorgan Chase's mobile wallet, has just landed an unlikely early partner with a history of going it alone: Starbucks.

Chase Pay, JPMorgan Chase's mobile wallet, has just landed an unlikely early partner with a history of going it alone: Starbucks.

Fraud from organized crime and hackers may attract the spotlight from payment companies and security vendors, but issuers and merchants consider friendly fraud the main nemesis.

As mobile payments migrate beyond smartphones, Visa is offering Visa Ready to manufacturers of wearables, automobiles, appliances and other connected devices.

There is a different feel to the troubles American Express faces today, mainly because its lost Costco relationship represented what might be one of the last of its kind — a deal in which a large retailer gives exclusivity to a certain card brand and tells customers how to pay.