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Integrated payments platform provider WePay has added web-based Apple Pay and Android Pay acceptance to its mobile commerce offering.

Bank of the West waited until the fall of 2016—many months longer than most banks—to offer its customers any mobile wallet. And when it did finally join the mobile wallet craze, it went all in.

The battle between banks and Apple Pay in Australia has global implications, but there is a notable rift within the banks' ranks that drives home just who benefits and who suffers by Apple getting its way.

Canada-based PayByPhone has enabled Apple Pay for drivers in Vancouver, where the parking payment provider keeps its headquarters.

While Apple battles a group of large Australian banks over terms of its mobile payments app, it has entered separate deals with ING Direct and Macquarie.

Samsung Pay still rules the mobile wallet roost in its home base of South Korea, but Apple Pay and Android Pay could invade the market soon, new reports suggest.

The group of Australian banks that want to collectively bargain with Apple over terms of its Apple Pay app have sharpened their focus to an area the technology giant is likely to defend fiercely.

Consumers can use Apple Pay at 36% of U.S. merchants now, up from 16% a year ago, according to a new report from Boston Retail Partners (BRP).

Consumer adoption numbers indicate most mobile wallets are stuck in the mud, but key wallet providers have made enough advances in other critical areas to suggest there is still potential in this market, Celent researchers say.

Apple Pay helps address the gap between courting donors and getting sustainable donations, according to the software company Blackbaud, which serves the nonprofit sector.

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is full of big ideas, from Internet-connected toasters to AI toothbrushes. A few inventions revealed at this year's show could have big implications for payments.

It's possible to use mobile wallets such as Apple Pay to enroll vending machine customers into a loyalty program — a concept that seems at odds with the impulsive and anonymous nature of most vending machine purchases.

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. cardholders are familiar with at least one form of mobile payment, marking an awareness trend that continues to rise and could ultimately translate to higher adoption and usage rates.

The web hosting company GoDaddy has streamlined the checkout process for small business customers using its Online Store services, including adding Apple Pay to speed mobile e-commerce transactions.

Samsung Pay users had the advantage over Apple Pay and Android Pay when it launched last year with a technology enabling mobile payments through virtually any merchant terminal—contactless or not—but that advantage quickly diminished.

Apple Pay users will have the option to make payments with gift and loyalty cards through an arrangement with Blackhawk Network's digital stored value system.

Apple Inc. scored a victory in the global battle to control the future of mobile payment technology after the Australian competition regulator refused to grant a group of local banks permission to negotiate collectively over the introduction of Apple Pay.

Few of Apple's numerous patent applications make it to market, but if the consumer electronics giant follows through on one filed last week, iPhone users may have the Siri virtual assistant helping them with person-to-person payments through the iMessage platform.

As a payments industry professional, Reetika Grewal took the situation in stride, but her experience using mobile wallets and EMV exemplifies an issue many consumers are facing.

Despite the head start mobile wallets got in the U.S. when Apple Pay launched more than two years ago, markets outside the U.S. are exhibiting that they are much better positioned for mobile wallet adoption, a new report from Fitch notes.