John Adams

Paul Fiore's path from online banking vendor Digital Insight to credit union mobile payment venture CU Wallet included a stop in the film business, where he saw firsthand the tricky task of bringing modern technology to a legacy industry where cooperation is in short supply.

There is merit to the 'coopetition' strategy, such as faster time to market and reduced consumer confusion. But time and again, bitter rivals such as telcos and big-box retailers try to work together only to see their efforts fall apart or vastly reduce the scope of their goals.

Financial institutions claiming exposure to Target's 2013 data breach are one step closer to collecting a $39 million settlement.

The international payments market has become an attractive target for startups looking to pry clients loose from banks by providing a way to reduce fees by routing around third parties.

Mobility's incursion into merchant services is normally treated as a threat to independent sales organizations and legacy acquirers, who will find themselves on the outside as technology-based services take over the store.

WePay's bread and butter has been offering a streamlined e-payments hookup for online merchant platforms, and it's now adding in-person payments to keep businesses with offline needs from turning to the likes of Square.

As a supermarket chain with no supermarkets, FreshDirect has always been an early mover by design. That made Samsung's Internet-connected refrigerator a natural fit.

Walt Disney Co., having found success with its wearable MagicBand payment system, is retiring the paper "Disney Dollars" it has long accepted from parkgoers.

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology commonly associated with bitcoin, is getting a lot of attention as a way to jettison fee-snagging correspondent banks from remittances, but Align Commerce insists blockchain has even more uses.

Merchants that now accept EMV-chip cards at the point of sale are not happy with the user experience, and First Data sees itself in a position to help.