David Heun

Adding payment acceptance to a website could be as easy as embedding a YouTube video or sharing a link on Facebook.

Apple's iWallet is much anticipated but, due to Apple's notorious secrecy, still very hard to picture. A new patent lends some slight clarity to the company's mobile-payment vision.

With their "Project Oscar" mobile payment joint venture remaining uncertain because of a regulator's investigations, major European telcos are turning to traditional payment companies to get back in the mobile payments game. MasterCard's new five-year agreement with Everything Everywhere is a case in point.

MasterCard continued to expand its partnerships with European telcos, announcing an exclusive, five-year agreement with Everything Everywhere to develop mobile and digital payment applications.

The pace of innovation in mobile payments may slow in light of Apple Inc.'s favorable $1.05 billion verdict in a patent lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. over mobile phone technology.

The number of open retail credit card accounts in the U.S. has reached heights not seen since the end of 2009.

Small business owners in Europe certainly won't have a shortage of mobile payment options to choose from, as more companies enter the market locally and from the U.S.

In the coming months, moviegoers with Interac debit cards will pay for their tickets and popcorn with a tap of a card at any of 134 Cineplex Entertainment theaters throughout Canada.

It was inevitable that Gen X consumers would overtake Baby Boomers as the generation most often using credit cards. But their habits may leave card brands unsure of how to develop products for even younger consumers in the future.

Nearly a third of acquirers surveyed still view mobile payments as a threat.

In a week's time, the mobile payments world was turned upside down as Square announced a major partnership with Starbucks and a radically different pricing option for merchants. Now payments providers are beginning to piece together how they can ride this wave instead of getting crushed underneath it.

Square is taking a bigger bite at the small-business market by offering flat-fee processing to merchants, furthering efforts to present itself as a more full-featured option for card acceptance.

Square is taking a bigger bite at the small-business market by offering flat-fee processing to small merchants, furthering the company's efforts to present itself as a more full-featured option for card acceptance.

It didn't take long for Jumio to release a new version of its Netswipe mobile software-development kit.

Hackers seeking cardholder data most often find openings in a small merchant's payments network because of something a third-party vendor did or did not do when installing payment applications.

When crunching the numbers, it appears Square can't possibly make a profit in its new deal to process transactions for Starbucks.

As many as 8 million consumers using online banking from Online Resources Corp. could soon have access to merchant-funded rewards from Truaxis Inc.

Total System Services is taking a different approach to sales by forming a joint venture with Central Payment Co.

A bank in Vietnam claims it has tripled its account base since it began offering cards with biometric fingerprint technology in June to the country's unbanked residents.

Trying to figure out Apple Inc.'s intentions with mobile payments based on the technology giant's patent approvals is akin to assembling Ikea furniture without instructions. Some parts clearly fit, others not so much.