Technology

Some debit card users are so loyal to their cards that many would go so far as to say using a PIN is more convenient — and less secure — than a using a signature, according to a recent report from Auriemma Consulting Group.

Square Inc. is introducing a new e-commerce tool that lets merchants collect payments on their websites, putting the San Francisco company in more direct competition with online payments leader PayPal Holdings Inc.

BMO is betting that newly popular biometric authentication options can solve an age-old problem—the headaches business travelers face when managing smaller expenses.

In the coming years, biometrics will be the leading security metric to protect payment systems, but a single ultra-hack could derail this progression permanently.

EBay has become a member of the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, making it the first e-commerce company to achieve FIDO certification.

Google plans to end support for the physical Google Wallet Card, according to information included in the code of its latest Google Wallet app update.

Samsung Electronics and China UnionPay have joined forces to launch Samsung Pay in China.

The attention around tokenization — replacing static account numbers with a one-time-use token — has been good for security but worrying for businesses that rely on a static identifier for future reference.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, two more Americans will have fallen prey to credit card fraud.

Pep Boys' early results suggest there is something to the argument that successful mobile wallets are more about relationship-building and less about payments.