David Heun

Though some issues remained, it seemed the card brands and debit networks were closer than ever to resolving their longstanding debate over EMV debit card routing when a federal judge potentially changed everything.

The Pulse debit and ATM network is working with mobile payment provider Paydiant to give banks a software-based mobile wallet with the bank's brand.

Five weeks after acquiring mobile payment startup JustChalo Inc., online restaurant reservation provider OpenTable is testing a mobile payment feature for restaurant patrons.

Retailers were singing the praises of a federal judge's ruling July 31 that the Federal Reserve Board overstepped its authority in how it capped debit-card fees. And banks were humming a different tune.

MasterCard, which announced its earnings hours after the Isis mobile wallet venture revealed plans to expand nationwide, faced questions over where the card network fits in the evolving mobile payments ecosystem.

Payoneer Inc. CEO Scott Galit says a new partnership with online marketplace Fiverr illustrates how his company is positioned for providing payments services in a changing business world.

Money transfer provider MoneyGram International has entered an agreement with Payzone SA to offer services throughout Romania.

MasterCard Inc.'s digital wallet continues its move around the globe, as consumers in the U.K. today became the latest to have access to MasterPass.

Visa and MasterCard have agreed to share their common application identifier technology, enabling EMV-chip based debit transactions to originate from a single application while allowing merchants a choice of networks for routing.

Prepaid card fees have plagued otherwise successful entrepreneurs and celebrity endorsers, including Suze Orman the Kardashian Sisters and Justin Bieber. But to prepaid card users, fees have left the spotlight.

In the payments industry, point of sale technology has become the "hottest area" of interest for companies considering an acquisition, according to the investment bank Berkery Noyes.

Commuters in San Francisco can now use their transportation-fare card to pay for parking in city garages.

Payments industry veteran Tom Dolan will head the new Canadian office for Total Merchant Services, the independent sales organization announced today.

Visa and MasterCard may differ on their support of chip-and-PIN in the U.S., but they are of one mind in their approach to Australia.

Global Payments Inc. executives highlighted its strategic partnerships with PayPal Here in the U.K. and CaixaBank in Brazil as vital to its business in the coming year.

In what its president says could be a "watershed event" in the debate over EMV debit transactions, the Secure Remote Payment Council has softened its stance to welcome Visa and MasterCard applications on EMV-chip cards.

The Dunkin' Donuts mobile payment app is "a continuing driver of sales" for the company, as more than 3 million customers have downloaded the app through the second quarter of 2013.

The U.S. should follow the model that worked for the U.K. in its "seamless, coordinated" transition to the EMV-chip card standard seven years ago, Auriemma Consulting Group states in a new report.

Mobile wallet provider Lemon Inc. has begun providing the payment function that had been missing from its mobile wallet.

London-based Kalixa Payments Group is offering consumers in Europe a mobile wallet based on DeviceFidelity's Near Field Communication technology.