David Heun

Bankinter plans to bring Near Field Communication mobile payments to its customers in Spain, using host card emulation (HCE) technology to support the mobile virtual card it developed last year.

The most loyal and engaged shoppers are the ones who still pick private label cards, a new study says.

The U.K. mobile commerce initiative Weve has added a digital "pouch" for consumers in the U.K. to store loyalty cards and offers as the telco-owned joint venture continues to develop its product.

MasterCard Inc. and Points International Ltd. will partner to deliver more options for cardholders to redeem, exchange or trade their rewards points.

Payment technology and service provider Mercury Payment Systems LLC has appointed Andrew Patterson to the position of chief technology officer.

Data security is becoming a higher priority in board meetings at corporations, but IT teams are feeling the stress of implementing new security technology in addition to its various other tasks, a new Trustwave study says.

A bank-owned payment organization in Hong Kong will use technology from Gemalto to help it create a Near Field Communications mobile payments service.

At first, Pedro Alarcon felt reluctant to help fund his restaurant by signing up for a merchant cash advance from a company that wasn't a bank. But he'd had so much difficulty getting a conventional loan that the pitch from a company called AdvanceMe sounded too good to be true.

Orange has launched its Orange Cash mobile contactless payments system this week in two French cities.

When the Fast IDentity Alliance was established in 2012 to develop stronger e-commerce security, founding member Nok Nok Labs was already building the foundation for its authentication standard.

The Merchant Customer Exchange, a retailer-driven mobile commerce initiative, announced a partnership that sheds some more light on how its mobile wallet will eventually look.

A popular Pan-Asian restaurant chain in the U.K. will begin accepting payments for online take-out orders through Visa's V.me digital wallet.

JetPay Card Services has started a soft launch of a general purpose reloadable prepaid card, the first venture under a new leader in its young prepaid division.

Whole Foods Market has agreed to use multiple versions of Square Inc.'s mobile payments technology.

MoneyGram plans to restructure its executive lineup and other aspects of its organization as it works to expand consumer-facing services and manage its investments in anti-fraud and compliance programs.

As more detail comes to light about how Target Corp.'s data breach occurred, retailers need to completely rethink their approach to protecting card data.

As more detail comes to light about how Target's data breach occurred, retailers need to completely rethink their approach to protecting card data.

MasterCard has signed on as the first card network to participate in the mobile payments component of the Weve joint venture in the U.K.

American Express has revamped its Open small business credit card so that the card's rewards can change as the customer's business evolves.

The number of fraud victims is dramatically increasing, indicating that consumers and the payments industry as a whole have to become more vigilant in their security, new research says.