John Adams

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.

The New York taxi system has formally launched a mobile app that allows riders to hail and pay for rides.

Discover was one of the most notable holdouts when Apple Pay first launched in Oct. 2014, but it now plans to launch Apple Pay compatibility Sept. 16.

Elizabeth Buse plans to step down as Monitise's CEO less than two years after assuming the top role at the slumping mobile technology company.

Paul Waltz is the new CEO of electronic funds transfer network Shazam, replacing the retired Michael Hollinger.

Securing transactions by matching a user to his or her mobile device has existed for some time, but two major trends connected to payments will likely bring that technology to the forefront, according to InAuth CEO Lisa Stanton.

Young people have a much different relationship with credit, requiring retailers to find different ways to enable financing to encourage larger purchases.

Barclays is attempting a diverse range of tactics to move customers beyond plastic cards, with its latest attempt being a "fashionable" jacket that's linked to the wearer's bank account.

PayPal is targeting what it estimates to be a $51 billion global market for small debts owed between friends and family members, enabling consumers to set up their own URL to collect payments.

Even though consumers generally avoid liability if their payment card or account is breached, their troubles can go well beyond the initial financial hit for the bank or merchant, said long-time data security expert Brian Huntley.

The "buy buttons" that are popping up on social media platforms are intentionally simple, often meant to enable one-click purchases of individual products. But as the technology's popularity grows, so must its capabilities.

Dylan Richard was the lead engineer for President Obama's reelection campaign, where the use of unstructured "social data" forever changed how presidential win the support of their constituents. Four years later, he's one of PayPal's newest recruits.

Following its massive 2013 data breach, Target vowed to accelerate its EMV-chip card migration, but the retailer still just barely made the card networks' deadline.

More financial services companies are landing on MaRS, a corner of Toronto where developers are building new uses for smartphones, wearables and alternative currencies all under the same roof.

Stripe's quick disruption of the payment processing industry in the U.K. is measurable in at least one simple way — counting clicks.

The major U.S. telcos may have abandoned their mobile wallet ambitions when they sold off Softcard, but their power casts a shadow over efforts to build ubiquity across the market.

Harper Reed and Dylan Richard first burst onto Chicago's tech scene as part of Barack Obama's 2012 reelection team, and their social media wizardry is often credited for keeping the president in the White House.

The London-based bank payment network Earthport is expanding its application of distributed ledger technology (a system best known for its use with Bitcoin) to enable real-time cross-border payments and potentially reduce risk.

The small merchants that turn to Square for their card acceptance needs are also among the most reluctant to swap out their hardware for devices that can handle EMV-chip cards, so Square is putting into play a strategy that banks have long used to get consumers on board with new technology.

Rather than compete head-on with Square, Intuit is crafting a strategy of providing software that complements Square's offerings for merchants that have more complex needs.