David Heun

Card-linked offers, a concept commonly seen as a lure to attract consumers to use mobile wallets, is growing in popularity with plain old plastic.

Natural Security SAS hopes North America will be as receptive to its biometric payment authentication system as France is.

Mobile payments provider Fortumo Ltd. landed a major European carrier-billing deal last week, less than a month after revealing a significant partnership with Microsoft for mobile payment development on Windows phones.

With a data breach dispute between Visa Inc. and Nashville-based retailer Genesco Inc. heading toward a July 2014 trial, Visa lawyers are asking a federal judge to dismiss some claims in a lawsuit Genesco filed against the card brand.

CardSpring and VeriFone Systems Inc. allow consumers' credit and debit cards to act as loyalty cards for redeeming digital coupons.

Visa issuers have put 3.5 million chip-based smart cards in the hands of U.S. consumers since the card brand announced its EMV-card migration roadmap in August of 2011, a Visa executive says.

Total System Services Inc. will continue to process payments for U.K.-based Nationwide Building Society, considered the largest building society in the world based on its assets and 15 million members.

It's time for banks to do something radical — give up some control of their payments infrastructure by outsourcing processing services in the cloud.

Retailers and the major card brands are throwing more legal punches at each other over the controversial proposed $7.25 billion swipe-fee settlement in a years-long anti-trust case.

Vesta Corp. wants to provide the wallet that mobile operators would use to offer core financial services to underbanked customers through their prepaid mobile phones.

Phillips 66 has joined the retailer-driven Merchant Customer Exchange mobile payments and commerce initiative, the Houston-based gas station chain announced May 23. Phillips 66 also operates Conoco stations. The company joins MCX only two weeks after the mobile payment venture added another petroleum provider, Pacific Convenience & Fuels LLC.

Charge Anywhere LLC will have gateway software available when small U.S. merchants need to accept EMV-chip card payments with their smartphones.

The most challenging and frustrating aspect of the Single Euro Payments Area project, according to a major German acquirer, is its goal of establishing common payment standards throughout Europe.

Visa's hiring of former JPMorgan Chase executive Ryan McInerney comes six months after Visa named an ex-Chase executive as its CEO and three months after the bank and card network revealed plans to team up on a new payments platform.

Visa's hiring of former JPMorgan Chase executive Ryan McInerney to be its new president maintains the card network's bond with the top-tier bank.

Sprint's Boost Mobile prepaid phone service developed a mobile wallet as a way to provide financial services for its underbanked target audience.

ControlScan is providing online payments security for ConvergenceHealth's digital- and cloud-based healthcare software and services.

Google and Square have entered the notoriously challenging person-to-person payment field, sidestepping one of the major hurdles other companies have faced: signing up new users.

Licensed gun dealers are finding it increasingly hard to accept card-not-present credit card or debit card transactions, but companies such as Tasker Payment Gateways are not gun-shy when it comes to serving the firearms industry.

A person-to-person payment method called Square Cash has surfaced on Square's website, less than a week after Google announced similar capabilities through Gmail and Google Wallet accounts.