Kate Fitzgerald

France-based Ingenico has named a new CEO a month after receiving an unsolicited takeover bid, signaling a strategy shift in the face of increasing pressure on the last of the independent payment terminal hardware giants.

Apple’s decision to stop disclosing its mobile device sales — along with reports that the company's newest iPhone didn't draw the huge crowds Apple is known for — signal that it may lose the clout that allowed it to collect fees for Apple Pay.

Payments technology veteran Will Graylin is looking to build support for OV Loop, a universal conversation and commerce app he developed that harnesses any handset’s texting capabilities to support voice, text or video messages with an e-wallet to store tokenized payments.

Ant Financial’s push to expand global acceptance of its Alipay mobile wallet to wherever Chinese tourists go continues in Australia through Tyro, a fintech payments operation that obtained a banking license in 2015.

Paya has acquired Stewardship Technology, a Mount Vernon, Ohio-based payments facilitator primarily serving churches and nonprofits.

Petrol, Slovenia’s leading gas station operator, has partnered with Wirecard and Mastercard, enabling users of Petrol’s MBills mobile wallet to add a prepaid Mastercard to their accounts.

Shopify is no stranger to social media — it’s had a partnership with Facebook for three years — and it sees Venmo users' social sharing habits as the perfect means to expand its mobile commerce platform.

Grab and Mastercard have formed a partnership extending the reach of the ride-hailing app by making a prepaid card available to Grab's 110 million users across Southeast Asia.

The hacks keep coming — most recently to Facebook and the federal government’s health insurance sites — and consumer trust in online security systems disintegrates along with them, according to a number of recent surveys.

Even consumers are fed up with passwords, which seem to do little to deter hackers, but Visa says there's still some life left in the dated authentication method.

Less than a month after eBay dropped PayPal's status as its preferred payment provider and implemented a new payment process for some users, one in 10 of those users is completing purchases via Apple Pay.

Square’s growth strategy has always been to aim higher with products and services that benefit larger businesses than the ones it originally targeted with its mobile card reader. Its newest product diverges from that path.

Paya, formerly Sage Payment Solutions, has rolled out a new platform supporting diverse types of consumer and B2B payments for small and midsize businesses.

Capgemini's 2018 World Payments Report is out, and it has some alarming predictions. Are its findings a threat to traditional payment systems, or just the first sign of a transformation that will affect all economies?

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Microsoft sunsets older security; Norway's digital wallet; TSA tests biometric ID; and more.

Cross-border e-commerce is seeing explosive growth, driving a race among payment providers and acquirers to equip online sellers with the technology to accept any kind of payment in virtually any region. Credit and debit cards are the dominant payment type North American merchants accept, but are much less common elsewhere.

Visa showcased payment technologies it’s developing for future Olympic games, including in-home “couch commerce” leveraging augmented reality.

Companies founded by women receive significantly less than the venture capital available to all U.S. firms, but trends are improving for all startups this year, including for women-owned fintechs.

The Gap has selected Adyen as its processor for four European markets as part of a plan to replace a web of relationships with local networks and legacy payment systems with a single view of payments and customer data.

Adobe is moving forward with the next phase of integrating acquired e-commerce platform Magento into its broader marketing services by rolling out Magento Payments next year.