David Heun

The service for purchasing digital content and paying through a phone bill to more than 79 million mobile phone owners in Algeria, Ghana and Tanzania.

The D.C. company is starting with bars in its local area and plans to expand to other big cities in the near future.

Consumers with a Mastercard, Visa or Union Pay card will use the mobile Standardized QR Code app to scan merchant-presented QR codes.

Mobile apps are becoming the playground and hiding place for cyberattacks and the criminals who orchestrate them.

As China's only gambling center, the island has become a crime risk, pressuring greater security for card transactions.

Using mobile apps to control payment cards has become a popular security option among issuers.

Toreson Lloyd was a vice president of relationship management at WorldPay and a business development manager at American Express before joining London-based APEXX.

The plastic card is an aging tool in payments, but there's still room for innovation in its design and features. Here are a few new concepts that favor technology and style as differentiators.

Jack Henry will be able to provide full-service credit and debit card processing to all existing core bank and credit union clients on a single platform.

When American Express debuted its Bluebird prepaid card in Walmart stores nearly five years ago, it was a sharp detour from the card brand's status as a product for the elite. But rather than bridge these two worlds, the Bluebird card has kept its market walled off.

To hear Apple CEO Tim Cook tell it, Apple Pay is experiencing "a phenomenal traction." But the company does not reveal specific numbers about Apple Pay as it relates to key metrics.

Bango tightened its hold on the carrier billing market in Indonesia, adding leading mobile network provider Smartfren as a user of one-click payments on Google Play, the app store for Android devices.

Clinical research sites have concluded that the payments to trial participants are so labor-intensive that the process can become a detriment to their medical studies.

Whether it is the Chase Sapphire Reserve metal card, the American Express Clear Card or a PNC card with an orange core, the message is the same — design is a big part of making a top-of-wallet card.

Verizon's 2017 data breach investigations report reads like a psychology playbook: If you keep pounding on the same information and calls for action, some of it has to sink in at some point. But that point hasn't arrived yet.

In working with correspondent banks in developing countries for more than two decades, INTL FCStone Ltd. spent a fair amount of time collecting market information over the phone and through e-mail from those banks to share with others. It ultimately determined there was a better way to do this.

The B-to-B payments market is ripe for digital innovation. Here are some of the most recent moves to bring B-to-B payments up to speed.

Walmart adjusted two of its long-standing, in-house offerings this week, saying it was lowering the rates for its domestic Walmart2Walmart money transfer service and adding a digital money transfer service with Bluebird2Walmart.

In the midst of some company restructuring, Total System Services Inc. delivered a 60% increase in total revenue during the first quarter of 2017 at $1.2 billion, compared to last year's $739 million.

With The Clearing House still targeting November for the launch of its Real-Time Payments service, it relies on a wide range of partnerships to introduce this offering to the banks that would use it.