Technology

American Express' Serve prepaid account has its roots as a digital wallet, but the card issuer is finding many of its enrollments are coming through a very non-digital process: in-person activations at mobile phone stores.

UOL BoaCompra and Ubisoft are partnering to allow online personal computer gamers in Latin America, Portugal, Spain and Turkey greater access to local payment methods.

Total System Services Inc. plans to build upon NetSpend's new partnerships with Western Union and Paychex to boost its presence in the prepaid card market, which it says can reach 68 million underserved consumers throughout the world.

Samsung Electronics Ltd. and semiconductor designer ARM have joined the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance board of directors.

Chip-testing provider Fime America has developed an EMV chip migration consulting package designed for the U.S. payments industry, which is migrating to the EMV standards.

Apple is interviewing payments industry executives, according to the technology news site Recode, suggesting the computing giant is getting closer to launching a payments operation.

Global payments processor Optimal Payments Plc has reached a five-year agreement with Ontario Lottery and Gaming.

Card-linked marketing is a useful but underused method to reach consumers, according to a new survey of chief marketing officers by Bank of America and The CMO Club.

Until recently, Venus' approach to customer rewards was simple. It simply didn't have a program.

JPMorgan Chase will build on its developments in tokenization for a digital wallet that it plans to roll out by the end of the year.