By using host card emulation, issuers can gain more control over their own mobile payment apps, says FIME's Christian Damour.

Discover Financial Services has promised to issue all new and replacement cards in the contactless format.

The Salvation Army is rolling out contactless payments technology at its 25,000 red kettles nationwide to combat the declining amounts of cash in donors’ pockets.

Large tech companies have been driving home the message that they can help the many Americans who struggle financially. But there are good reasons to be skeptical of their intentions.

Google's $2.1 billion deal to buy Fitbit is primarily a hardware play. But it also brings Fitbit Pay under Google's umbrella — potentially repairing part of Google's fragmented mobile and wearable payments ecosystem.

A payments platform created by India’s largest retail banks surpassed a billion transactions in October, a milestone that affirms the tremendous growth of services offered by U.S. giants from Walmart Inc. to Amazon.com Inc. and Google.

AI can be utilized for back-office efficiencies like conducting compliance tasks and automating manual, paper-based processes. This redirects resources and human capital in a way that is likely to increase productivity, says Episode Six's John Mitchell.

Back in early 2013, the website BitcoinTalk.org asked users to select a slogan for the embryonic cryptocurrency. The winner was “Magic Internet Money,” with runners-up “In Crypto We Trust” and “You Asked for Change, We Gave You Coins.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook has called Apple Card the "most successful launch of a credit card in the United States ever." If that's true, the company is banking on it to jolt lagging iPhone sales by adding an installment payment option.

Revenue growth, especially at scale, is never an accident, and requires a different approach to payments management, says Chargebee's Krish Subramanian.

Dave & Buster’s will introduce mobile payments technology to its self-service kiosks dispensing game cards at the North American restaurant chain that combines dining with video games and other entertainment.

Consumers needed payment platforms that could handle internet payments, and startups quickly filled the void, says Chief Outsiders' Mark Coronna.

PayPal is adding rewards to its Venmo credit card in a way that seems to echo Apple's strategy with Apple Card.

Many small banks remain skeptical of the payments network because it is owned and operated by big banks and they are waiting for the Federal Reserve to launch a rival service.

Congress should get behind the Fed's effort to launch a real-time payments service instead of getting in its way.

As consumers are increasingly moving to mobile devices to conduct financial transactions, they are enticing fraudsters to follow them into the mobile channel, according to new research from TransUnion's iovation unit.

American Banker Capitol Hill reporter Neil Haggerty shares how the D.C. community reacted to Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony and how it looks at the project now.

Uber launched a series of financial services to provide real-time wage payments and enhanced account features in a single app, seemingly putting Uber in the role of a digital bank.

A few weeks after debuting voice-supported recurring bill payments in India, Amazon is extending a similar feature to most of its markets.

Halloween is often overlooked as a minor holiday that involves no gift-giving. The reality is that Halloween marks the beginning of a long consumer spending spree that goes through major holidays including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali and others.