Technology

Only two weeks after launching its SEQR mobile payment app in the U.S., Seamless is bringing the wallet service to the U.K.

The fraud fix, as it is becoming clearer, is to take payment card information (account numbers, card verification values and the like) and devalue this data in an effort to make it less relevant to the hackers who seek to harvest and sell it.

Canada's suretap mobile wallet provides service to most of the country's mobile carriers, but its coverage map omits Apple handsets and most Canadian banks.

Groupon has launched an Apple Watch app that combines shopping, deals and payments.

Adding a payment mechanism to online advertising is becoming a popular way to close the conversion gap between mobile shopping and purchasing.

Although it's been widely suspected that merchant EMV compliance will be low in October when the liability shift deadline kicks in, a new Javelin Strategy & Research report is projecting as many as 75% of all merchants will not make the deadline.

Among the most important payment changes on the horizon in the U.S., is the migration to EMV technology and the looming October 1, 2015 deadline.

As mobile payments fuel financial services in countries where traditional banking infrastructure is underwhelming, many in the payments world applaud.

Online payment processor Allied Wallet has joined the Saxo Payments Banking Marketplace, allowing it to immediately accept and settle payments globally in multiple currencies at a lower cost.

Trustwave researchers have discovered a vulnerability in RubyGems, a software distribution programming language that's used for many payment processes.