David Heun

One of the iconic images to come out of Google's Android Pay presentation last week is its app loaded with one American Express card — and three retailer loyalty cards.

As the deadline nears for U.S. EMV adoption, more processors are partnering up to help their clients speed through the certification process.

BBVA has introduced technology that its mobile wallet users in Spain may liken to switching channels on a TV.

Merchants expect that payment card fraud will migrate to e-commerce as the U.S. gets more protection at the physical point of sale through EMV chip cards. That means chargebacks, already a problem in physical retail, will escalate in e-commerce as well.

IdentityMind Global has upgraded its fraud prevention and risk management software to enable real-time monitoring of e-commerce fraud and money-laundering attempts at financial institutions.

Japan's NTT Docomo has become the first mobile network operator to join the Fast IDentity Online Alliance's board of directors.

Visa Europe is opening an innovation hub in Tel Aviv, just weeks after opening its Visa Europe Collab in London.

Wells Fargo has partnered with NCR to deploy an outdoor, full-service ATM designed to provide consumers extra transaction options in nontraditional locales.

Digital money transfer provider SimbaPay is providing a free money transfer service from the U.K. to Nigeria, a popular market for new mobile payment plays.

Online payments are an unintended soft spot resulting from the EMV point of sale migration, creating an opening for security technology vendors to combat the emerging cybercrime threats.

The Fast Identity Online Alliance has established its FIDO Certified testing program for products and services that support the alliance's security specifications.

A year after initialing establishing a presence in Australia with its mobile card reader, Square Inc. says it will open its fourth "global hub" in Melbourne to expand uptake of its Register tablet-based point of sale system.

ATMs have long been a target of fraudsters hoping to steal a large amount of card data from unsuspecting consumers, and the problem looks like it can only get worse before it gets better.

Visa Inc. isn't expecting a near-term financial boost from processing domestic card transactions in China, even though the doors have finally opened up to do business in the massive Chinese market.

Visa Inc. isn't expecting a near-term financial boost from processing domestic card transactions in China, even though the doors have finally opened up to do business in the massive Chinese market.

American Express estimates that about 750,000 merchants do business in Canada, and the card brand is relying on its successful OptBlue program to attract as many of them as possible.

Alternative payment systems like Visa Checkout promise to reduce cart abandonment compared to the more drawn-out process of typing in credit card and shipping information. According to recent figures from Visa Inc., Visa Checkout is delivering on that promise.

If Verifone wants to benefit from the major card brands' efforts to operate in China, it must confront a virtual army of independent sales organizations already selling low-cost payment terminals.

In a move foreshadowed by Alibaba Group Holding's initial public offering in the U.S., the China-based e-commerce giant's Alipay division has received a U.S. money transmitter license.

While U.S. banks and clearing houses contemplate how to convert the country's payments system into near real-time, Taulia has made strides by offering a dynamic discounting option to encourage clients to use its technology for B2B payments.