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There has been an avalanche of new mobile technology in just the past few weeks. The iPhone 5s, Samsung Galaxy Gear and Google Moto X bring with them a wide range of new systems for payments — and companies like PayPal and Fiserv are making noise with new products of their own.

PayPal, following a highly publicized clash with a crowdfunded company, is putting crowdfunding under a microscope to avoid compliance and security risk.

Versafe doesn't trust consumers to take the necessary precautions to protect their devices. So the company built a fraud protection layer within its banking application to take matters out of users' hands.

As more financial institutions and other companies turn to cloud-based services to maintain customer contact centers, Echopass Corp. says it has strengthened its position to assure data handled in those centers remains secure.

The 12 Federal Reserve district banks warned of mounting threats to the U.S. payment system such as fraud, and called for streamlining transactions from the point of payment to the point of receipt.

Many mobile commerce systems are built on the premise that we need something simpler than typing a complex password on a small screen. With the iPhone 5S, Apple unveiled its own solution: a fingerprint scanner.

Today's the day Apple unveils the successor to the iPhone 5. Here's a look at the leaks, patent applications and other rumors that shed light on the company's mobile payment plans.

Giesecke & Devrient says it has given Near Field Communication payments a significant boost by developing a SIM card on which several NFC applications can operate simultaneously.

Barnes & Noble, the biggest U.S. bookstore chain, won the dismissal of a suit over the “skimming” of customers’ PIN codes from credit-card readers at stores in New York, California and seven other states.

Seven card-issuing banks can sue Heartland Payment Systems Inc. for negligence stemming from the processor’s 2008 data breach, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.