David Heun

Apple has made moves to acknowledge Alipay's dominance in the market, such as partnering with Alibaba Financial affiliate Alibaba to accept Alipay payments in China's Apple stores.

Mobile payments provider iZettle is adding an e-commerce platform that will expand merchants' capabilities to accept payments in-store and online.

Major card brands have been competing to surpass each other with rewards and premium card offerings for decades, but American Express still views the premium card world as one it dominates.

LevelUp had a lot of failed experiments along the way, but it still won over major partners and is seeing new results in the restaurant industry.

E-commerce payments technology provider Stripe is launching a fraud prevention tool for security professionals at large organizations.

Two years ago, Marriott split its customers between two card issuers following its acquisition of Starwood Hotels. Rather than choose one over the other, the chain has challenged Amex to draw a clear line between its cobrand card and that issued by Chase.

Following a series of high-profile merchant defections, the Plenti multi-merchant rewards program will end on July 10. The program's treatment of merchant exclusivity may have proven too limiting.

By any measure, if Visa can trim more than two weeks off a chargeback dispute, it should help merchants and cardholders. But like many efforts to improve the payments market, it won't be an easy change.

Sapphire Ventures and Cervin Ventures were involved in the Series B funding round, bringing their total of support to $31 million for Mountain View, Calif.-based Punchh.

Web and mobile bill payment provider Doxo is taking its first step into cash payment options by partnering with Coinstar to enable cash bill payment at thousands of coin-counting kiosks in retail locations.