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Apple Inc. is nearing the rollout of Apple Pay Cash with the person-to-person payments service’s debut today as a public beta test, five months after the initial announcement.

Apple's digital services group, which includes Apple Pay, generated $8.5 billion in revenue in the quarter for Apple, a jump of 34% from the previous year.

The iPhone X is a very different type of smartphone, shedding much of Apple's familiar hardware design and adding new, unproven features. Here are some of the ways the iPhone X is changing mobile payments.

For the second time in less than a week, First Data has found an already speeding car to hop on board in the company's strategy to cover as many digital commerce bases as quickly as possible.

Steve Wozniak indicated that he'd like to see the Silicon Valley behemoth continue to partner with banks, rather than applying for its own charter.

To become a major payments option, the technology has to improve its voice accuracy and handling of voice in different environments.

Amazon may be increasingly encroaching on the turf of traditional retailers, but there is one surprising arena where it may be vulnerable: Voice-controlled payments.

With Apple’s WWDC, Zelle, PayPal’s Venmo and Square Cash, competition in the consumer payments space is about to kick into high gear, writes Josh Hawkins, vice president of marketing for the Boston-based digital payments company Circle.

Some financial institutions are looking at how to translate the complicated and document-heavy mortgage lending process into the digital world of voice-interactive personal assistants.

Some banks are looking at how to translate the complicated and document-heavy mortgage lending process into the digital world of voice-interactive personal assistants.

Competition between card networks, tech titans Facebook and Google, Chinese fintech proxies Paytm and Hike, and M-Pesa will be fierce, and offer signs how other large emerging payments markets may evolve, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

MobilePay, Danske’s digital-pay subsidiary, wants Nordic banks to offer a single payment platform to counter challengers like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Until recently, many of the fraud prevention tactics employed by organizations have added to, not reduced, customer friction across the buying cycle, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

The slow and difficult EMV migration has slowed major adoption of contactless cards, but there are signs that momentum may be turning around.

The grocery chain is speeding payments to counter grocery innovations from Amazon and Walmart.

iMessage funds will come from cards already stored in Apple's digital wallet, and the service will work with Siri, allowing payments via the personal assistant.

Apple's upcoming iPhone X will ditch its fingerprint sensor in favor of a multi-camera system, but it still expects some users to opt for a PIN code.

Facial recognition and an updated Apple Watch could spur change in banks’ mobile apps for Apple customers.

Apple's next iPhone could add — and lose — features that change the way people handle mobile payments. Here is the latest roundup of rumors and predictions.

Apple Pay Cash will likely integrate with Apple’s iMessage platform when iOS 11 is released.