Kate Fitzgerald

Diebold Nixdorf has developed new technology to streamline and personalize the shopping and checkout experience at stores and restaurants.

Wirecard will provide a platform for enabling immediate payments for temporary workers who sign up with Moonrise, a gig-economy startup backed by American Family Insurance.

It's been a little more than three years since Apple Pay made its debut. Today it is joined by Samsung Pay and Android Pay/Google Pay—along with several proprietary concepts from major banks and merchants. But despite millions spent on promotions and marketing for the various concepts, mobile payments volume is still weak.

Alliance Data Systems is developing a co-branded credit card and a private-label credit card program with Sweden-based Ikea’s U.S. furniture store operations.

Google is moving to corral its various mobile wallet concepts under a new umbrella—Google Pay—but it won’t be an overnight cure for the confusion many consumers and merchants are likely to experience as the new “G Pay” logo starts to appear.

U.S. financial institutions expect it will take another two to five years before consumers broadly adopt mobile payments, and most banks see more obstacles than opportunities in supporting these emerging payment technologies.

San Francisco-based Arxan Technologies, which got its start in 2001 providing security tools to protect gaming and medical-device applications, says financial services companies are one of the fastest-growing sectors seeking help in barricading their mobile apps from hackers.

The use of QR codes for mobile payments and coupon redemption will surge more than 300% over the next five years, as more merchants rely on the technology, according to a new Juniper Research report.

Prepaid2Cash has launched a mobile app enabling recipients of card network-branded gift cards to convert them to cash — targeting what the National Retail Federation says is nearly $30 billion in funds spent via gift cards in the U.S. during the holiday season.

The recent explosion of activity around biometrics and other new forms of authentication should seem like a good thing for the development of connected commerce. But right now it's more of a wild west that needs to be tamed.

Blockchain technology has uses beyond bitcoin, and many companies see merit in using it to handle cross-border payments. But blockchain isn't the only solution to the inefficiencies of international money movement.

Discover Financial Services’ DFS Services has formed a strategic alliance with National Payments Corp. of Vietnam (NAPAS), the nation’s domestic payment network, for reciprocal card acceptance.

Jakarta, Indonesia-based PT Shell has selected Germany-based Wirecard to provide a digital financial platform for its new Shell Fleet Card program.

Thousands of rank-and-file merchants are gaining access to validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) for protection from malware within payment terminals, an attack vector that other popular security technologies might miss.

Consumers’ behavior around paying bills is often fluid and millennials put a high priority on paying bills immediately, which sometimes means with cash.

TransferTo and Cellum, a leading international mobile wallet provider, have formed a strategic partnership enabling Cellum to expand its services by leveraging TransferTo’s cross-border payments network.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will soon kick off a cash-back incentive for credit card customers who pay with a mobile wallet, and it doesn’t matter if the transaction is handled by its proprietary Chase Pay platform or Apple Pay, Android Pay or Samsung Pay.

Nigeria’s ProvidusBank is the first in the region to launch a World Elite Mastercard, a credit card offering rewards and travel perks such as global concierge services.

Global testing laboratory FIME is opening its first office in China to meet demand for Chinese payment vendors expanding globally.

In a move designed to strengthen its capabilities for integrated payments, processor and technology provider Total System Services has agreed to acquire Cayan for $1.05 billion. The news shortly follows another deal valued in the billions — Thales agreeing to buy the chip maker Gemalto for $5.4 billion.