David Heun

Barclaycard's first range of wearable bPay devices never looked like they had a home on the fashion runway, but the issuer is betting the fashion brand TopShop can make it in vogue.

The term "mobile wallet wars" has been part of financial services lingo for several years, with banks, merchants and software companies fighting for control of digital payments. But the real battle is taking place in an entirely different arena.

Credit unions and community banks are preparing to adopt Android Pay and Samsung Pay, while reporting more consumer use of Apple Pay since its launch last year.

Cybersecurity provider Thales e-Security Inc. has developed software to monitor and manage hardware security modules at different physical locations within a company's network.

The massive amount of data collected by risk management systems often calls for a human to spend time deciphering the information and reporting on the findings. Chicago-based Narrative Science wants to automate that process.

China's largest telecom technology testing laboratory plans to use a Fime tool to strengthen the country's mobile security.

Even with the prevalence of mobile P2P apps like Venmo and Square Cash, consumers still turn to cash, checks and PayPal most often to pay one another.

A Swiss joint venture plans to release SwissWallet for online shopping this month, partnering with MasterCard for use of its digital wallet, MasterPass.

Point-of-sale payment provider payworks has released a white-label software development kit (SDK) that outside parties can use to develop mobile point of sale services.

Unlike Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies, which cut off contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) payments when Apple Pay launched in October of 2014, Walgreens never bucked the Apple Pay trend and did not take long to start accepting transactions from Apple's mobile pay service.