John Adams

Square has opened an office in St. Louis, which will serve the mobile point of sale company's clients in the Midwest.

Small to medium sized businesses are often cast as unprepared for the card network's October deadline for EMV-chip card migration. But how bad can it really be?

Mobile carriers would seem a natural fit for mobile payments in face-to-face sales, but the phone companies may be better suited for a long-distance relationship with retailers.

It wasn't long ago that mobile point of sale companies like Shopkeep were the alternative, the way for very small merchants to finally start accepting cards.

PeerTransfer has grown by specializing in one area: facilitating tuition payments for international students. And now, under a new brand name, it's ready to add a second major (and maybe a third and a fourth).

Shortly after its deployment in New York, Verifone's taxi technology has come to Philadelphia cabs, which now enable passengers to hail and pay for rides through a mobile app.

The mobile technology craze is starting to sweep up loyalty programs, placing pressure on banks to brush up the reward redemption experience to meet consumer expectations.

Hoping to reach businesses with purchasing needs that can't be handled with just a credit card, WePay is turning to Automated Clearing House payments to diversify its transaction options.

Royal Bank of Canada's marching ahead on two innovations designed to help it blanket the country's mature point of sale and connected devices.

Mobile wallet providers are trying lots of strategies to widen the audience for mobile payments, including increasing transaction size and, in suretap's case, adding support for prepaid cards to attract younger consumers.