JCPenney and Dick’s Sporting Goods were among the first to launch the new SyPi plug-in technology, with others expected to come on board soon.

Shoppers will not buy products they can’t find, no matter how quick and seamless the checkout process may be, writes Trevor Legwinski, chief strategy officer at SearchSpring.

N26 will soon add insurance service to go along with its mobile payments, and credit and savings accounts.

Mobile QuickPass NFC payments are accepted at nearly a half million point-of-sale terminals outside of China, and QuickPass QR code payments have been available in Hong Kong and Singapore for about a month.

The new ATMs cut fraud risk by minimizing password-exposure, but it’s unclear whether large numbers of consumers are ready to change five decades of inserting a plastic card to get cash.

Consumers have accepted the use of fingerprint authentication for mobile payments. But will they be as welcoming of facial recognition? A few companies are testing the waters.

Long wait times and improved marketing are a couple of reasons retailers should consider their own apps, writes André Stoorvoge, director of product marketing for payments at Rambus.

The company contends a lot of current payments technology is focused on horizontal companies that are designed to easily enable payments, and are operating agnostic to the type of business that requires a payments gateway,

The new ATMs cut fraud risk by minimizing password-exposure, but it’s unclear whether large numbers of consumers are ready to change five decades of inserting a plastic card to get cash.

Boku and Microsoft have delivered carrier billing in Canada, the U.K., Italy, Russia and other markets.

Mobile payments, online transactions and electronic billing are all on the rise, according to new analysis from the Federal Reserve.

The ability to use balances toward Apple Pay payments will be attractive for retailers, writes NewStore founder and CEO Stephan Schambach.

Consumers using the Alipay app will be able to find nearby merchants that accept the popular Chinese mobile wallet, and receive coupons for local deals.

The FTC likes facial recognition, but consumers may not be comfortable with using the technology to secure mobile payments.

Transaction laundering is gaining steam, and since it uses familiar payment technology, it can be easier to use than virtual currency, writes Ron Teicher of EverCompliant.

Military and intelligence agencies around the world have grappled with data breach challenges for years, and have relied on Secure KM (Keyboard/Mouse) switches to manage the risk.

Apple and Australia's largest banks have been battling for more than a year over mobile payments access.

Retailers are worried about the online giant’s move into bricks-and-mortar retailing. For example, Amazon's $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc. wiped $17 billion off the value of Walmart.

U.S. private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC is among the companies to have shown interest in Nets, which is working with a financial adviser to review options after getting inbound interest.

Apple's plans to display a bright blue bar on iPhone screens when an application is monitoring the user's location may feel like a threat to location-based marketing. More likely, it is an overdue wake-up call for banks to improve their communication about the benefits of location data.