David Heun

In landing a network agreement with Brazil's Elo Global Cards last week, Discover Financial Services gained another ally in its ongoing push for global expansion.

Though most merchants will be liable for fraud if they do not upgrade to EMV-chip card terminals by the start of October, many do not see themselves affected by fraud on the same scale as the major retailers that have suffered massive data breaches.

Heartland Payment Systems has certified Digital Dining and its iPad-based point of sale system for its EMV-ready security technologies.

The Tel Aviv-based fraud prevention provider Forter insists that the legacy security model for e-commerce won't scale enough to combat the sharp rise in fraud coming in the post-EMV economy.

MasterCard and First Tech Federal Credit Union are testing a system that might be the picture-perfect solution to the expected rise in e-commerce fraud following the October shift to EMV security in the U.S.

The growing adoption of Apple Pay will help Apple's smartwatch capture up to 68 percent of the smartwatch market by the end of the year.

As CEO of the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) mobile wallet venture, Brian Mooney must remain calm as his company faces an increasingly stormy market with no product to show for its years-long efforts.

When the card networks' October deadline for EMV-chip card adoption arrives, things will likely have changed very little compared to how they are today.

The Payments U.K. council has delivered the first draft of the ISO 20022 payment messaging standard, fulfilling an earlier promise that it says will pave the way for a globally interoperable real-time payments system.

Amex has a track record of quickly embracing mobile technology, and Monday’s move to enable Apple Pay for corporate card payments is no exception.

London-based private equity manager Apis Partners LLP has raised $157 million to invest in African and South Asian financial services and payments technology and innovation.

Fraudsters, anticipating the U.S. shift to EMV security at the point of sale, are busy looking for ways to hack into the e-commerce sites and consumer bank accounts that will be unaffected by the change in payment card security.

Debit cardholders initiate an average of nearly 30 debit transactions a month for the top issuers, but the rate of activity can vary wildly — with those top issuers seeing about twice as many transactions as those without strong debit business.

With the EMV-chip card deadline just two months away, Mercury Payment Systems is emphasizing security by providing a reason for its partners to engage in more education and become certified as compliant with the Payment Card Industry data security standard.

The issues tied to its MoneyPak reload cards continue to plague Green Dot Corp., despite the prepaid card issuer's decision to discontinue the product back in 2014.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is asking the Merchant Customer Exchange to explain why Apple Pay and other Near Field Communication-based payment systems were prohibited in some MCX stores shortly after the Apple wallet's 2014 launch.

To eliminate its fraud-prone MoneyPak reload cards, Green Dot introduced a swipe-to-reload system last year that seemed more streamlined but added a new requirement — the customer had to have the card present to top it up with cash.

Demonstrating that its contactless payments technology can serve other purposes, Powa Technologies will provide its PowaTag to Vodafone customers in the U.K. as a way to add minutes to their phone plans.

E-commerce payment service provider Payfort has begun offering its merchant clients in Arab countries support for monthly payment plans.

With regulatory scrutiny from the Card Act of 2009 and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, various prepaid and gift card products have come and gone in recent years. InComm's Vanilla Gift Card is not one of them.