David Heun

The prepaid card market has become an unstoppable locomotive, and will continue its course unless unexpected federal regulations slow it down, according to new data.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council is providing guidelines to help industry participants better identify and analyze security risks.

Braintree continues its international expansion, taking its mobile and e-commerce payment processing into Australia.

Blackhawk Network is taking its Gift Card Mall, a common sight in retail stores, into the digital world.

Visa Inc. continues to bolster its V.me digital wallet service, announcing that 50 more banks and credit unions will adopt the service.

Boston commuters now have the option of using their smartphones to purchase tickets for the city’s rail lines and display the ticket’s bar code to rail conductors for scanning.

Banks suffering financial losses from writing off transaction disputes may lessen that blow with new ACI Worldwide Inc. software designed to automate what has been a time-consuming and costly process.

Discover Financial Services’ Pulse PIN-debit network has joined the card brand’s EMV migration timetable, establishing requirements for point-of-sale acquirers and processors to handle smart-card payments.

Consumers will be able to use their mobile phones to complete EMV-compliant mobile payments for online transactions if MasterCard Inc.’s current testing with ING Group employees in the Netherlands expands.

Google has reinvented its mobile wallet a few times, and its latest reinvention, a rumored plastic card, raises questions about the mobile-pay product’s direction.

Anyone can turn a smartphone or tablet into a mobile card reader, but it’s not as easy to turn a phone into a contactless payment device if it wasn’t built that way. Some companies aim to change that.

In an experiment that could rekindle discussions about mobile payments initiated through print advertisements, U.K.-based Marie Claire magazine has printed what it is calling its first Near Field Communication-enabled advertisement in its December magazine.

Discover Financial Services will pilot Natural Security’s hands-free biometrics payment system at its Riverwoods, Ill., headquarters, the companies announced this week.

Buck Corp., a mobile payment processor and social shopping platform provider, launched a new service that allows companies or individuals to quickly establish an e-commerce shopping site.

For CreditCall, the slow pace of the U.S. shift to the EMV standard is fast becoming an opportunity.

It may not qualify yet as a combination of QuickBooks and mobile payments such as Intuit Inc. offers, but Braintree figures it is on the right path in working with an accounting services provider for online merchants.

Before superstorm Sandy left many without access to physical branches and ATMs, a bombardment of cyberattacks left many without virtual access — and unlike the storm, these cyberattacks are not going away.

Mobile commerce could move onto a fast, or at least faster, track if Inside Secure has solved the problem of limited access to the secure element in a mobile phone handset.

Issuers and merchants have heard the card brands’ pitch that without EMV smart card adoption in the U.S., fraudsters will flock to this country because it will become a weak link in the data security chain.

NXP Semiconductors has developed a touch sensor that could combat thieves using a mobile scanner to attempt to steal account details from contactless payment cards.