Alipay has worked with First Data, Verifone, Ingenico and others to connect with merchants in North America, but more as a service for Chinese travelers than a direct competitor to existing payment providers.

JPMorgan Chase is partnering with another fast-growing technology firm, this time to help business clients eradicate paper checks.

Providers leave out a majority of lower-volume companies that would happily accept an electronic payment or card, writes Sue Ellen Hodnot, vice president of sales for the west region at Nvoicepay.

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.

The renaming is designed to evoke a provider of end-to-end technology, beyond payments systems.

HSBC has been implementing biometric techniques for customer authentication, including voice recognition and Touch ID.

In India, dLocal wants to enable global e-commerce companies to accept payments from and make payments to India to serve consumers, contractors and supply chains.

Unattended gas pumps would seem to be the perfect use case for EMV's anti-counterfeiting security, but many gas station owners are putting off their upgrades for as long as possible due to hardships that other retail categories don't face.

Alipay and WeChat Pay will force traditional payment networks to up their game, particularly in in-play emerging markets. Whether they can become relevant at scale for consumers outside China remains to be seen, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

Mastercard is setting up a temporary store with internet-connected windows and mirrors enabling consumers to explore and pay for fashion items with their smartphones.

Apple's Face ID is turning heads, but it is far from the first use of facial biometrics in payments. Here are several implementations that predate it.

Banks should not be fatalistic about the threats posed by tech companies in financial services. Incumbents still hold the upper hand.

With the high-performance and capabilities AI provides, this technology will serve as one of the most valued assets in the future, writes Arushi Srivastava, senior director of public sector for NTT Data Services.

Despite lowering barriers and eliminating borders for commerce, the internet still makes it clunky comparison-shop for products across multiple sites. E-commerce startup Shoppable aims to solve this by creating a universal shopping cart.

In late August, Whole Foods started selling Echos as soon as it completed its sale to the e-commerce giant. It may seem like an odd item to stock at a grocery store, but there's a solid strategy behind it.

By replacing human judgment with other identity technologies, higher levels of verification accuracy can be achieved in a fraction of the time, writes Romana Sachová, co-chair of the Security and Biometrics Workgroup at Mobey Forum.

It's only the early days after the Equifax breach, but breadth of the data has the potential to reverberate for some time, requiring a mix of detection, prevention and response, according to John Gunn, chief marketing officer at VASCO Data Security; Atiq Raza, CEO of Versec; and Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire.

Payoneer will work with the mobile wallet eZ Cash to make it easier for its mobile wallet users to convert funds from cross-border payments to funds in the wallet.

While many fintech companies and payment startups have good ideas, they don't yet understand the complexity of integrating into a community bank’s core banking system. That's where partnerships can help, writes Steven J. Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc.

For retailers, WeChat’s hyperactive and massive user base is a goldmine, but mini-apps don't solve the most prominent demand of retailers: to acquire and retain new traffic, writes Franklin Chu, managing director of Azoya International.