Kate Fitzgerald

Payment security isn’t the highest priority for millions of consumers who increasingly use smartphones to buy games online, a new study suggests.

PayPal still has a big lead over banks’ digital payment offerings, despite the many advances banks have made in recent years, a new study suggests.

The race to dominate person-to-person transfers has been a curious one so far, because P-to-P typically isn’t a money-maker for banks or even for PayPal, whose Venmo unit is generating red-hot growth this year in the category.

South Korea’s LG last year rolled out LG Pay, a mobile wallet that took an indirect approach to contactless payments by leveraging Bluetooth technology to link to a proprietary “white” card that stored a user’s payment cards. The concept never took off, and a new report suggests LG is making another run at mobile payments, using different technology.

Fuel payments operator WEX Inc. has deepened its relationship with ExxonMobil Corp., signing a 10-year extension to its North American fleet card contract with ExxonMobil and Imperial Oil Ltd. of Canada to continue a relationship that began in 2007.

Walmart and Dunkin' Donuts have poured millions of dollars into their proprietary mobile payment apps, and their most interesting lessons are the ones they didn't expect to learn.

At this week's Money2020 conference, payment execs like PayPal's Bill Ready say consumers will make purchases in a broad context of shopping, and if merchants aren’t poised to meet their audiences there, they will get left behind, Ready said.

SimplyTapp is using host card emulation to make its mobile technology more widely available, in a move to improve performance among young people.

MCA remains a very active area — and has become fiercely competitive.

Longtime Amex exec Alfred F. Kelly Jr. will be taking over as Visa CEO at a time when much is at stake for the global card network.