Technology

The EMV chip card-enabled PayPal Here will be available in the U.S. on Sept. 30.

Online food ordering platform Hungryhouse has expanded its payment offerings to include PayPal, Apple Pay and American Express.

The U.S. might be ahead of the rest of the world in some areas of security, but when it comes to protecting against credit card fraud, we’re way behind.

As Uber-like business models perpetuate, bringing more contractors into a world where their job functions are handled primarily through a mobile app, there are still some pain points for which plastic is well suited.

The collaboration between financial institutions and technology firms runs deep, but banks' recent criticism of lax regulatory oversight for nonbanks reveals fissures.

Many different data security technologies exist, but the payments industry “does not have what it needs for a global standard,” said Marianne Crowe, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

South Korean purchases via Samsung Pay have topped the equivalent of $30 million U.S. as of Sept. 20, according to the first figures released by Samsung.

Verifone has entered an agreement to use Barclays' Pingit mobile payment app as part of Verifone's PAYware Ocius mobile gateway. Initially, this deal will support only e-commerce sites but Barclays said the pair may bring the technology to the physical point of sale in a later phase.

Competition is heating up among mobile wallet makers, but not everyone is racing toward the same goal. Many are starting to look past Near Field Communication-based contactless payments, championing newer technologies as well as reviving older business models.

The boost of wearables also has significant potential to drive mobile payment adoption. This potential is based on the ability of wearables to expand the number of devices and places from which mobile payments can be made.