David Heun

Payment processor Elavon has signed a multi-year agreement to provide payment gateway and security technology to Wyndham Hotel Group.

Starbucks says it will offer its mobile order-and-pay application to customers at stores in 21 more states in the southern and central U.S.

Ecobank Transnational Inc. and MasterCard have agreed to promote electronic payments throughout Central and West Africa, accelerating use of payment cards for consumers and mobile card readers for merchants.

First Data likens its new Clover Mini payment terminal to Apple's product line: it's a device made to fill a niche that everyone else thought was already being served.

Uber is a successful but sharply divisive brand. To Capital One, Uber is also an ideal partner for reaching a millennial customer base that would rather pay for everything through an app.

The mega-banks' P2P venture, clearXchange LLC, has developed technology that could give it a key role in any implementation of faster payments in the U.S.

BBVA has not been afraid to grasp new payments technology and run with it, especially with its BBVA Wallet.

The mega-banks' P2P venture, clearXchange LLC, has developed technology that could give it a key role in any implementation of faster payments in the U.S.

The mega-banks' P2P venture, clearXchange LLC, has developed technology that could give it a key role in any implementation of faster payments in the U.S.

Consumers in the Asia-Pacific region no longer view the MasterPass wallet as an option only for big-ticket purchases.

Reconnecting to his youthful punk rock days, billionaire Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Money U.K. is offering a credit card featuring the Sex Pistols.

Facebook is expanding use of its "buy" button through merchants on the e-commerce platform Shopify, allowing consumers to purchase items from Shopify merchants on the social media site.

Nearly 80% of consumers making payments to doctors or hospitals would prefer to do so through a one-click method on their health-plan provider's website, according to data from health care payments provider InstaMed.

A criminal planting malware to render payment card data unusable and seeking a ransom from the victim to decrypt it, on average, is getting an astronomical 1,425% return on his investment, security vendor Trustwave says.

After hearing that his friend organized an adult hockey team and ended up losing about $3,000 each year that he fronted for ice time because he never got paid back by others, Ian Andrew Bell came up with the idea for RosterBot.

The rapid pace of change has forced payment companies to collaborate more often, a posture that will help the industry in the future, even if EMV and other innovation disrupts the market.

After suffering a major data breach in 2008 when hackers infiltrated its payment processing network, Heartland Payment Systems took great efforts to become the poster child for digital security. But thieves found another way in.

Revel Systems found its niche in the point-of-sale landscape by developing software that turned an iPad into a payment terminal. But a WiFi-based device such as a tablet is only as strong as the WiFi signal it's connected to.

Intuit, which works with numerous small-business owners through its QuickBooks software and other products, is learning that convincing merchants to adopt EMV technology will require more than just educating them on the technology and the consequences of missing the card networks' October deadline.

Cloud services provider Akamai Technologies and data security vendor Trustwave are partnering to provide customers with cybersecurity defense mechanisms from their respective portfolios.