David Heun

FitPay's wallet and digital payment platform, which will integrate with the tokenization platform, enables manufacturers of IoT and wearable devices to add contactless payment capabilities to their products.

Ingenico views the integration as a way to increase the use of loyalty programs during the payment process.

Nearly a year after integrating with major mobile wallets, Punchh is expanding its cloud-based platform to integrate loyalty and payments for quick-service restaurants.

Eyeing sectors with increased independent work forces and growing tourism, cross-border payments provider Transpay says it is making its business-to-business mass payout platform available in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Citing a need for merchants to better understand payments behavior across various digital channels, Visa has launched Token Management Service for its global clients.

Rambus has provided the data technology under the hood of Nintendo and PlayStation games since the 1990s, and later became a global token service provider. The next logical progression is mobile payments.

In a case where two payments security heads are better than one, Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. and the PCI Security Standards Council have agreed to create one unified PIN security standard for payments stakeholders.

Google launched its Google Pay app for Android devices Tuesday, probably confusing millions of people globally who already used Android Pay. But the change is more than just in the branding.

More than 700 million global cyberattacks and 1.7 billion bot attacks took place in 2017, a 44% increase in the attack rate over 2016.

R&D capabilities at Interac got a boost last month when Interac Corp. was created by merging Interac Association and Acxys Corp. It brought together a payments network handling nearly 5.7 billion debit transactions annually with a company specializing in payments development, management and consultation.

EBay's recent decision to favor Adyen over PayPal doesn't spell doom for PayPal, which sees itself playing a key role in the nascent gig economy. But other payment networks also seek a slice of that pie.

In a move to support its business-to-business payments platform, Visa has agreed to acquire software provider Fraedom.

In many ways, the goal of the GDPR is to increase difficulty for a hacker, while also flipping the rights of data ownership back to the European consumer. U.S. companies that serve European consumers are obligated to follow the regulations.

Emphasizing its commitment to data advancement and security, Mastercard has named JoAnn C. Stonier as its first chief data officer.

As owner of Whole Foods Market, Amazon is bringing one of its key strengths — swift product delivery — to its retail grocery store business.

The concept of a digital payments platform that taps into consumer bank accounts is an old one. But there are still opportunities to implement it in new ways.

Payments processor Shift4 Payments has acquired three point of sale companies that it will integrate to strengthen its presence in the hospitality POS market.

JPMorgan says it will deploy Total System Services Inc. technology when issuing virtual payment cards to commercial clients.

Parents with children on youth sports teams have a lot to keep track of, not the least of which is payments for the fees associated with competitions.

The announcement comes only a month after five other retailers dropped from Plenti. AT&T had dropped out of the program three months earlier as the first retailer to leave.