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The world of payments is changing, and a lot of that change results from the dedication of innovative retailers. Whether partnering with payment companies or going it alone, these brands are putting fresh ideas into practice.

PayPal Holdings Inc. reported first-quarter sales and profit that beat estimates, adding customers against an onslaught of competition from credit-card issuers, startups and smartphone makers looking for a piece of the fast-growing digital payments market.

It's been a tough time to be a mobile point of sale company, but SumUp believes it's found the right formula to not only get through the shakeout but to thrive.

A troubling gap is growing between the promises being made around mobile payments to consumers and merchants, and what payments technology providers are actually delivering, according to PayPal’s Bill Ready.

Square will be the exclusive point of sale provider for Coachella, a large music festival, covering everything from tickets to concessions.

Cutting out every step except one—opening the app—Domino's Pizza has introduced what may be the most streamlined approach yet to ordering and paying for delivery with its Zero-Click Ordering app, which launched this week for iOS and Android.

Amazon's new global partner program focuses on working with online platform providers and developers, similar to how mainstream payment technology companies work with independent sales organizations to reach new clients.

Mobile wallets and related technologies are starting to look very different. Whether they are absorbed into other mobile offerings or removed from the phone altogether, these systems are looking less and less like the old-fashioned billfolds they replace.

In one of its biggest splashes since first making Amazon Dash Button payments available nearly a year ago, the Seattle-based online shopping giant says it has tripled the number of brands that support its WiFi instant ordering system.

The payments pioneer is transforming its merchant cash advance into a business loan, a move that has significant legal and regulatory implications.

Square Inc. is introducing a new e-commerce tool that lets merchants collect payments on their websites, putting the San Francisco company in more direct competition with online payments leader PayPal Holdings Inc.

Square wants to ease the anxiety many small merchants may feel around no-shows when they accept online appointments for their businesses.

I made a provocative comment, as it turned out, during my keynote at a recent conference. The comment was picked up in a press article that reported I said "the coding behind virtual currency bitcoin could also prove to be enormously transformational, potentially even replacing the Swift network for interbank payments."

The focus on the smart-home device marks the latest frontier in the ways in which banks and payment companies are testing features on cars, fridges, watches and other internet of things.

Verifone's presence in the mobile point of sale market is as old as Square's, but it has had a bit more trouble reaching Square's market. This year, Verifone's strategy will be to move the goalpost — and to chop it up into smaller segments.

The mobile point of sale market is getting more and more crowded, even as the market's largest and most established players struggle to find footing.

Square is "betting big on Near Field Communication," but not to the point the company would consider bringing back its own Square Wallet app, CEO Jack Dorsey says.

Square Inc. reported fourth-quarter revenue that topped analysts’ estimates, suggesting the digital-payments business will continue to grow in the face of increasing competition from PayPal Holdings Inc. and Apple Inc.

Capital One Financial in McLean, Va., has added Amazon's former chief information security officer to its board of directors.

As the spread of mobile technology continues to erase borders, more companies are teaming up to bring their offerings to audiences they would have been unable to serve just 10 years ago. Many of these companies already had global reach, but needed the technology or local expertise of a partner from overseas.