David Heun is an associate editor for technology at American Banker.
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Banking and payments technology provider linked2pay has added the real-time payments platform from Push Payments to its services for bank clients.
By David HeunNovember 15 -
Digital payments security provider V-Key will protect the cloud-based payments network of Ant Financial Services Group (Alipay) with its virtual secure element software.
By David HeunNovember 14 -
Payments technology plays a major role in web connected city projects globally.
By David HeunNovember 14 -
On Dec. 7, Dwolla will drop its consumer-facing applications like its mobile app and Dwolla.com
By David HeunNovember 11 -
Platforms designed for face-to-face or paper transactions may not be the best enabler of payments through connected devices, but a system born out of the digital payments world could fare better.
By David HeunNovember 10 -
The long-term promise of mobile wallets has been that plastic cards could disappear, even from the point of issuance.
By David HeunNovember 8 -
Paysafe and ServiceMax have partnered to deliver online payment and mobile point of sale solutions to service providers that do a vast majority of their work in the field.
By David HeunNovember 7 -
The card networks earlier this year introduced faster versions of EMV payments to ease checkout times. They've since had a hard time winning merchant adoption.
By David HeunNovember 7 -
Furthering a relationship that placed Walmart on the closed-loop ChaseNetprocessing platform, Walmart has committed to accepting the Chase Pay mobile wallet in its stores and in-app.
By David HeunNovember 4 -
Furthering a relationship that placed Walmart on the closed-loop
ChaseNet processing platform, Walmart has committed to accepting the Chase Pay mobile wallet in its stores and in-app.By David HeunNovember 3 -
The newest Samsung smartwatch will include the Samsung Pay mobile wallet to allow users to make payments at terminals that accept swipe or contactless payments.
By David HeunNovember 3 -
An increasing number of shoppers use a mix of digital and in-store to research, shop and pay. Retailers must accommodate all three to stay relevant, according to Revel.
By David HeunNovember 3 -
Visa closed its acquisition of Visa Europe in late June, ending a year of negotiations and years of speculation in the payments industry.
By David HeunNovember 2 -
The company has done a lot of work on EMV speed, but contactless mobile may be its biggest opportunity.
By David HeunNovember 2 -
Visa closed its acquisition of
Visa Europe in late June, ending a year of negotiations and years of speculation in the payments industry.By David HeunNovember 2 -
Linked2pay is expanding a text-based, person-to-person payment service to allow banks to offer it for card and Automated Clearing House payments.
By David HeunNovember 1 -
By establishing its e-commerce fraud prevention system as a "mobile first" platform, Forter worked to get a step ahead of a growing trend — that many new retailers accept only mobile payments through their apps.
By David HeunNovember 1 -
Less than a week after revealing it will bring
Alipay payment options to U.S. terminals, Ant Financial has signed an agreement with Commonwealth Bank of Australia.By David HeunOctober 31 -
Apple Pay became a significant benefactor at Apple's new product presentation Oct. 27, as the mobile wallet's Touch ID authentication is incorporated into a flashy new MacBook Pro keyboard.
By David HeunOctober 27 -
When
Early Warning acquired clearXchange—soon to be renamedZelle —late last year, the acquisition was applauded by banks that make up the P-to-P payments network because it brought Early Warning's various fraud detection technologies into play.By David HeunOctober 27

















