John Adams

Particularly in the fast-food industry, the menu of mobile capabilities is more super-sized than ever — and it's one of the rare payments trends that's actually being driven by the consumer.

PayPal has added new features to its invoicing product in a market filled with rivals that are similarly diversifying their services to lure small businesses.

MasterCard is cooperating with a European investigation into its fees, though it is questionable that this process will have a widespread effect on interchange, according to MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga.

PayPal this week released new research predicting a robust market in China for U.S. retailers, a bullish outlook that’s not being tempered by the vast selloffs in the Chinese financial markets.

Visa is partnering with and investing in Stripe, fueling the processing startup's international ambitions and product development while giving the card network added juice to build new technology.

The problem with basing a mobile point of sale system on Apple products is the merchant invariably pays Apple prices. E-Nabler aims to demonstrate that the same capabilities can be had on Android tablets and smartphones for at least half the price.

Starbucks and American Express are both using cross-merchant rewards to boost their own volume, but with a very different philosophy driving each company's program.

PayPal's gotten off to a rousing start as an independent company, but Visa CEO Charlie Scharf doesn't appear to be worried.

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.

Google is firming up plans for a feature that allows consumers to buy products directly from a retailer's ad on a mobile phone, part of a Silicon Valley-driven trend that would place card issuers at a disadvantage.

Finding Apple Pay-accepting merchants in the U.K. isn't quite the needle-in-the-haystack proposition that it is in the U.S., but it's still enough of a challenge to raise concerns among Apple's partners during the mobile wallet's launch in the country.