David Heun

Modern consumer cars may not be as full-featured as the Batmobile or Knight Rider's KITT, but they are getting closer, and a growing number of financial companies want to put their products under the hood.

Apple Pay may be just what the doctor ordered for health care payments, with its emphasis on both security and communication.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council released its 3.1 update to the industry's data security standards April 15 to address the payment data vulnerabilities of the Secure Sockets Layer encryption protocol.

The restaurant chain Olive Garden will begin using Ziosk tablets to accept payments at the table starting next month.

Smart Communications Inc. has secured an issuing and acquiring license from Visa for its Smart e-Money electronic payment business in Southeast Asia.

The Canadian government is extending its code of conduct for payment cards to any mobile transactions, while also assuring retailers that any savings from reduced interchange will be passed along to them.

Digital payment providers are finally earning the same level of consumer trust that banks have long cherished.

Mobile wallet developers need only look to the prepaid card business to find a suitable partner, one that has already been down a path mobile has just started.

If Apple Pay comes to Spain anytime soon, supermarket chain Mercadona will be ready for it.

Executives at card networks and issuers are concluding that tried-and-true marketing methods can still expand card acceptance in an increasingly digital world.

Mobile wallet developers can find a suitable business partner in prepaid-card providers, who have already been down the path that mobile has just started.

From RBC's perspective, the future will be better served by multi-purpose devices like the Apple Watch, which can store multiple card accounts and be controlled by the consumer from a Bluetooth-connected smartphone.

With so much focus on specific mobile devices and form factors for delivering a payment, banks and issuers can lose sight of the fact that consumers will ultimately decide how and when they will pay, said Cheryl Guerin, executive vice president and U.S. product and solutions lead for MasterCard Inc.

Mobile wallet developers need only look to the prepaid card business to find a suitable partner, one that has already been down a path mobile has just started.

With only six months to go before the EMV chip-card liability shift takes effect, many U.S. merchants are not yet aware of the EMV migration.

CHICAGO -- A gender disconnect in mobile payments is emerging as one of the persistent obstacles to the new technology.

Convinced that consumers know the Brink's name and associate it with strong security, prepaid card provider NetSpend has launched a Brink's-branded prepaid card.

Consumers could decide for themselves whether to use an EMV-chip card with a signature or PIN if the card is coded to accept such a change. But the technology to support PIN reset will be spotty at first.

Recent cyber-attacks on the protocol that has long secured Web connections and, more recently, payment applications are pushing the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council to issue an update with strong implications for e-commerce sellers.

French terminal maker Ingenico Group will use Intel Corp. technology to develop a mobile tablet that supports EMV chip card and Near Field Communication contactless payments.