Cards

The plastic card is an aging tool in payments, but there's still room for innovation in its design and features. Here are a few new concepts that favor technology and style as differentiators.

The move will help consumers directly authorize payments to third parties without providing the physical card or full account details.

Jack Henry will be able to provide full-service credit and debit card processing to all existing core bank and credit union clients on a single platform.

When American Express debuted its Bluebird prepaid card in Walmart stores nearly five years ago, it was a sharp detour from the card brand's status as a product for the elite. But rather than bridge these two worlds, the Bluebird card has kept its market walled off.

Mastercard is trying very hard to get people to use "Masterpass" as a verb, and there is more to this mindset than promoting the card network's digital wallet.

Clinical research sites have concluded that the payments to trial participants are so labor-intensive that the process can become a detriment to their medical studies.

Virtual cards are starting to gain ground, and WEX sees a big opportunity in hotel chains' need to beef up security.

Mastercard has promoted longtime executive Ed McLaughlin to president of operations and technology, where he will oversee all of the card network’s technology functions.

The widespread use of fingerprint authentication in mobile devices has made many consumers comfortable with the technology. So is Mastercard's test of a biometric payment card a case of plastic catching up to a modern tech trend, or is it instead dragging biometrics back in time?

The payments processing and technology giant should add more merchant services and marketing to its Star network to overcome competitive and regulatory pressure, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

Walmart adjusted two of its long-standing, in-house offerings this week, saying it was lowering the rates for its domestic Walmart2Walmart money transfer service and adding a digital money transfer service with Bluebird2Walmart.

The North American subsidiary of Germany’s Wirecard AG is providing the technology behind a prepaid Visa card that distributes cash rewards to blood donors.

Two years after launching Bento for Business, a prepaid Mastercard enabling small businesses to manage employee expenses, Bento has announced it’s adopting i2c’s Inc.’s global platform and adding new features.

As the smartphones become ATM cards, a new set of security risks emerges. Thorough ID protection is necessary to keep no-card ATMs secure.

The fight over a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule adding new restrictions to prepaid cards is intensifying as some Republicans hope to overturn it before a looming deadline expires.

Readers sound off an attempt to block prepaid regulations, threats to consumer privacy, FSOC’s political bent, the proper use for SARs, and more.

A new payment company is addressing what it sees as a gap in young people's knowledge about how their purchases can impact their future financial health.

Payments volume and cross-border business helped drive the strong performance.

South Korea is already at the forefront of digital payments as home to Samsung Pay, and this week the country will begin discouraging the use of coins in stores.

Prepaid card users have waited a long time for the basic protections that debit card customers take for granted. Congress should not throw them under the bus.