Technology

Amazon Dash Button is all about the data, not just the repeat purchase.

Visa has created a prototype of a car designed to initiate payments, the first step in a five-year plan of changing the way motorists pay for gas and other needs while in transit.

Mobile wallet providers are trying lots of strategies to widen the audience for mobile payments, including increasing transaction size and, in suretap's case, adding support for prepaid cards to attract younger consumers.

Stripe Inc., the online-payments processor, unveiled a tool to simplify mobile e-commerce for stores and software applications developers.

Banks are starting to lay traps for cybercriminals that have broken through their defenses.

PeerIQ, which provides data to firms that invest in marketplace loans, has raised $2.5 million in early-stage financing.

Lloyds Banking Group has joined the list of U.K. banking companies that support Apple Pay.

Mobile payment and commerce technology provider Mozido has established a cross-border e-commerce payment connection between China and Russia, a project that resulted from its purchase of Beijing-based PayEase Corp. earlier this year.

Any EMV detractors saying the two-decade-old security against counterfeit cards has long passed its time are likely not aware of what the future has in store for the chip-based technology.

Blockchain technology associated with Bitcoin has caught the eye of bankers, but now comes the hard part: figuring out where it can be used — international payments, treasury services or elsewhere — without wasting a lot of time and money in experimentation.