John Adams

GORUCK sells what's called "rucking," something so unusual that one of the first things on its website is a link called "what is rucking?"

"Omnichannel" isn't just a buzzword to describe marketing and payments in different formats—it also applies to corporate dealmaking as merchant acquirers catch M&A fever.

Square will be the exclusive point of sale provider for Coachella, a large music festival, covering everything from tickets to concessions.

Seeing its opening in the mobile wallet market, Mobeewave's pushing a product that exists somewhere between the models of Square and Venmo, resurrecting a relatively old idea of having people pay each other by using their phones.

One of the biggest problems American travelers faced when chip cards became mainstream in Europe was buying tickets at self-serve kiosks in train stations. With no ticket attendant, travelers risked becoming stranded because their mag stripe cards weren't recognized.

The demise of the plastic Google Wallet card may be bad news for Google and anyone who keeps a balance with its digital wallet, but Amex and Simple both see something familiar, and attractive, in the card's audience.

Western Union is beset on all sides by newer, nimbler companies wielding emerging technology to slice overhead from cross border payments, and it’s striking back by using its global bank relationships and huge infrastructure as an advantage.

There's a certain type of payment that's prone to fraud because the payer doesn't always know when a transaction is made, or even when the relationship starts.

Peer-to-peer lending startup Ledge incorporates on millennial staples like social networking and open development to get on its feet while relying on a road paved by the financial services 'establishment' to go mainstream.

BMO is betting that newly popular biometric authentication options can solve an age-old problem—the headaches business travelers face when managing smaller expenses.