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Apple has launched its contactless Apple Pay Express Transit Mode, which does not require authentication such as Touch ID, for the Transport for London mass transit services.

PayPal is moving ahead with plans to integrate with both Amex and Discover, and the details of how PayPal will work with these card networks are starting to take shape.

PayPal is moving ahead with plans to integrate with both Amex and Discover, and the details of how PayPal will work with these card networks are starting to take shape.

Adoption of contactless is already well under way, and in a few years consumers will likely look back and recall the bad old days when valuable time was taken up waiting for transactions be processed and wonder how they ever coped without the speed, ease and convenience of contactless payment cards, writes Fiserv's Jamie Topolski.

While manual fraud prevention may be manageable at first, as the number of payment types and channels increase, it can rapidly become untenable, says The ai Corporation's Mark Goldspink.

While we expect growing consumer demand for biometrics, we also expect to see payments industry players move toward these types of future-proof technologies and away from legacy password-type systems, says Nuance Communications' Simon Marchand.

In a move to aid faster expansion and provide more security and regulatory compliance tools, Sweden's Klarna Bank is strengthening its longtime relationship with Amazon Web Services by making it the preferred cloud provider.

In a move to aid faster expansion and provide more security and regulatory compliance tools, Klarna Bank in Sweden is strengthening its longtime relationship with Amazon Web Services by making it the bank's preferred cloud provider.

While manual fraud prevention may be manageable at first, as the number of payment types and channels increase, it can rapidly become untenable, says The ai Corporation's Mark Goldspink.

The Fed's real-time payments system won't be up and running for years, but consumers and businesses demand faster payments today.