Technology

The pimples and beauty marks of the mega-retailers’ CurrentC mobile wallet are on display for all to see during the app's ongoing beta test prior to its planned rollout next year.

The lowest-hanging fruit for payments efficiency is governments, which handle huge volumes of payments and generally lag private corporate payments in implementing automated processing.

The popularity of data analytics has been building for a few years now, but expect more banks to look for ways to mine their data storehouses in 2016.

A London-based startup aims to allow consumers to use Bitcoin as a form of payment – even with merchants that haven’t started using the digital currency.

UAE Banks Federation (UBF), an association of 49 banks in the United Arab Emirates, this month said in it will move ahead with plans to develop a mobile wallet accessible to its members in 2016.

A trip to London reveals how far ahead British and other European regulators are in streamlining the licensing process for payments providers and other fintech firms.

Despite increased investment and development in the consumer payments space around mag stripe, EMV and contactless payments solutions, there is still a huge concern when it comes to data theft.

2015 was the year EMV began taking hold at the point of sale, with effects that rippled through nearly all other payment channels. Here's a look at how the payments industry is adapting to the changes brought on by EMV-chip cards.

Apple Inc. grabbed the early worm in mobile payments with Apple Pay's late 2014 launch, combining an intuitive mobile payments system for consumers with the buy-in of major banks and merchants. But the tech giant’s first-mover advantage never seemed to materialize.

Valve Corp. has agreed to work with UOL BoaCompra to accept payment on its online gaming platform, Steam, in Colombia and Peru.