Michael Moeser

Perhaps seeking to dispel rumors that Starbucks can’t innovate in payments without Howard Schultz, the company is joining a platform that could one day enable customers to trade bitcoins for caramel lattes and mocha frappuccinos.

For their own sake, GrubHub and Uber should have purchased Caviar when Square reportedly offered it to them for sale in 2016. Instead, they now have a competitor who’s looking to eat their lunch in the restaurant delivery business.

Sensing an opportunity in the small business credit card market, Stripe is setting out to outflank big banks by offering APIs to enable its clients to issue their own physical and virtual credit cards.

Seeing an opportunity to address the multi-billion dollar cannabis industry’s needs for payments processings, Zodaka is launching with a system that focuses more on price than process.

For the millions of consumers who file auto insurance claims every year, many of whom use digital tools such as mobile apps to submit them, the process grinds to a halt when it comes time to receive their payment.

Samsung Pay is adding Chase Pay as a funding option, combining the strengths of two very different approaches to mobile payments.

Dunkin’ Brands, parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, is extending its deal with mobile app maker CardFree to increase its efforts to close the mobile coffee-sales gap with its rival, Starbucks.

The jewel in PayPal's crown — Venmo — has lost some of its shine.

American Express' blockchain patent application isn't just about payments: It could also radically change how card-based merchant offers are made and allow them to become much more targeted.

Grubhub's deal to purchase of LevelUp, announced alongside its second-quarter earnings, is a deal that seems to make more sense for LevelUp — expanding its offerings to include delivery — than it does for the buyer.

Dynamics has been in the high-tech payment card game long enough to see its market disrupted by two major shifts: the U.S. EMV migration and the launch of Apple Pay. Going forward, the company may find that the best way to deal with a fickle U.S. audience is to focus its attention elsewhere.

The news that Snap Inc. is shutting down Snapcash, a version of Square Cash offered on its Snapchat social media platform, may have less to do with P2P payments and more to do with the long-term future of the company itself.

Starbucks achieved rapid adoption of its mobile card app by building it on top of the highly successful Starbucks closed-loop gift card. Such a model could also apply to the cannabis market, which is largely shunned by mainstream banks and card networks.

American Express has spent years developing new marketing alliances and acquiring programs to shed its reputation as a card for the elite. But its success still hinges on premium cardholders.

On the surface, the Uber-Venmo partnership sounds like a coup for Venmo, getting its brand into the app that defined the ride-sharing category. But the partnership is a much bigger deal for Uber.

PayPal's executives likely expected the company's $3 billion buying spree of companies like Hyperwallet and iZettle to dominate its media coverage this month. But a single careless letter has stolen the narrative.

The graveyard of defunct all-in-one startups includes companies like Coin, Swyp, Stratos and Plastc. But whenever one of these companies failed, its technology simply moved on to a new owner.

In order for Apple to achieve significant success with its upcoming P-to-P service, the tech titan needs to expand the amount of people who can use the payments feature.

Many banks and money transmitters have built successful billion-dollar businesses around P-to-P payments without social sharing and letting users send emojis.