Kate Fitzgerald

Cutting out every step except one—opening the app—Domino's Pizza has introduced what may be the most streamlined approach yet to ordering and paying for delivery with its Zero-Click Ordering app, which launched this week for iOS and Android.

Time has run out for “knuckle-busters,” the clunky contraptions merchants needed for decades to accept card transactions, but their legacy—the raised characters embossed on payment cards—is proving difficult to stamp out.

Visa Inc. recently established a 12-year lifecycle for EMV chips in payment cards, and CPI Card Group is among the first card manufacturers to enact the new policy, eliminating the need for issuers to get EMV chips in Visa cards approved every three years.

When Starbucks’ new loyalty program rules go into effect this month, it will set the stage for a wave of new payments innovations with intriguing benefits for the coffee giant and its payments processing partner, JPMorgan Chase.

More than two-thirds of all U.S.-issued MasterCard consumer credit cards are now chip-enabled and the number of merchants accepting EMV transactions continues to climb, MasterCard said March 31.

Sweden-based Klarna has racked up solid success in Europe over the past several years with its buy-now, pay-later online retail services, but to crack the U.S. market it's going back to the laboratory.

Bank of America now enables customers to directly enroll credit and debit cards in Visa Checkout within the bank’s online portal, simplifying the signup process for Visa’s streamlined e-commerce checkout service, the bank said March 30.

Fallout from widespread data breaches hurts many payment industry sectors, but this year's tax-filing season brings fresh pain for the prepaid card industry, with new details out connecting prepaid cards with some of last year's biggest tax refund fraud busts.

Many moons after the U.S. payment industry adopted a largely chip-and-signature approach to EMV instead of chip-and-PIN security that’s standard elsewhere, rising merchant chargebacks are leading some to question the wisdom of PIN-free payments.

Samsung is fond of using cash rewards to drive Samsung Pay signups, offering consumers $25 to $100 in recent months for enrolling a payment card in the handset maker's mobile wallet. But that strategy is not a fit for all card issuers, according to the fine print in the latest Samsung Pay promotion.

As the white-label force behind a growing number of mobile wallets in Asia, Latin America and Europe, Mozido LLC is familiar with the limitations of building consumer awareness and usage through relatively narrow channels.

Merchants that postponed their EMV migration are feeling the sting of losses connected to the EMV liability shift. They are now shoring up their fraud defenses and—in some cases—speeding up their EMV-migration plans.

Among the swirl of startups chasing opportunity in the global remittance market, Amsterdam-based Terra sees a way to cut costs by launching a lightweight, mobile-centric app that uses heavy data to offset financial crime risks.

The financial services technology provider Jack Henry & Associates is the latest company to collaborate with The Clearing House to speed processing, a move that will substantially increase the number of banks capable of executing faster payments.

SVM LP, which provides gift cards for corporate promotions, incentives and loyalty programs, has acquired 1to1 Card, another operator in the same niche, the companies announced March 8.

Financial services technology provider Jack Henry & Associates Inc. is the latest company to collaborate with The Clearing House to speed processing, a move that will substantially increase the number of banks capable of executing faster payments.

The promise of unlocking some of the "big data" within payments is coming nearer, with new technology expanding the way consumer purchase data is used to shape marketing campaigns.

A Canadian lawmaker has introduced legislation to establish new ceilings for credit card interchange, and though it has the support of some retail groups, experts say the bill faces headwinds.

Apple Pay’s struggles to build its user base are nothing compared with the labors of Sionic Mobile, which has been on a six-year odyssey of inventing and reinventing its mobile payments app.

The corporate disbursement market has long resisted reform, with more than half of U.S. consumers receiving at least one corporate payout via cash or check each year, according to Aite Group.