John Adams

Loyalty programs are typically viewed as a consumer-facing marketing play, but the shift to mobile commerce is bringing these programs deeper into the supply chain.

Europe's clash over interchange rates is being spun into marketing gold by alternative payment companies like Seamless.

The credit union-led CU Wallet is working to attract small-business support by drawing on the local ethos that credit unions have nurtured for years, but it faces a formidable challenge as device makers such as Apple and Samsung bake their own wallets into the hardware.

Payments technology is advancing so quickly on so many fronts that Spindle CEO Bill Clark is changing his requirements for hiring new sales staff.

First Data is looking to sell shares of its stock to address its "indebtedness," the company announced Monday.

First Data is looking to sell shares of its stock to address its "indebtedness," the company announced Monday.

Toronto's mass transit system is embarking on a mobile ticketing initiative that the system's operators hope will become the dominant payment system within three years — a time frame that demonstrates how hard it is to migrate to new payment technology.

Samsung has begun piloting its mobile payment system in South Korea, the first step in a gradual rollout of a system that's designed to play nice with retailers' older point of sale systems.

C-Spire is looking to increase the use of its self-service kiosks, so it's installing ones that borrow several design cues from Apple's handsets.

As PayPal sets to formally split from eBay on July 20, President and CEO Dan Schulman is setting a goal to vastly increase how often consumers use PayPal.