Technology

A South African payments company has established a consumer-facing subsidiary in London to enable its worldwide expansion over the next few years.

MasterCard and Visa are using Samsung's mobile wallet to further the adoption of tokenization and other security methods at the point of sale, but safety concerns still cast a shadow on mobile payments and commerce.

California assemblyman Matt Dababneh, D-Encino, has proposed AB 1326, a bill that provides guidelines for any individual or business that wants to start using virtual currency.

MasterCard has entered into an agreement with African mobile banking and payment services company eTranzact International to provide remittance services to Nigerian consumers.

Mobile check-in and pay has been underused in most markets, but a German bagel shop hopes the technology can encourage normally cash-reliant Germans to go digital.

Square hopes to broaden its reach with its core micro-merchant market by offering technology to tap the $1.6 trillion e-commerce market.

The micro-merchants that were first enabled to accept magstripe card payments from mobile card-reader are now getting the ability to accept contactless payments with hardware from Ingenico.

Visa and Pizza Hut are banking on pizza ordering and payment in the future to take place inside of automobiles.

By agreeing to acquire mobile payment provider Paydiant, e-commerce giant PayPal has vaulted itself back into the in-store mobile wallet landscape in which Apple, Google, Samsung and others have commanded recent attention.

Samsung Pay's ability to allow mobile payments while mimicking plastic card transactions will make it harder for rivals and merchants to strike back by disabling NFC at the point of sale when the system debuts later this year.