Bluetooth beacons, which communicate with consumers' apps as they enter and leave stores, have been bouncing around the retail industry for a few years looking for the right combination of foot traffic, product and customer experience.

Banks are often taken for granted in digital wallets, treated as a "dumb pipe" for funding another account. PayPal is working to provide a more welcoming atmosphere with deals recently announced with Citigroup, FIS and two other banks.

By making tokenization available on each other's digital wallets, Visa and Mastercard are addressing the security concerns of merchants who are happy to accept both brands but nervous about how their wallets can be misused.

Bank of America's forthcoming mobile app update will include personal financial management features.

Payments are inevitably merging with social media, but the mix comes with a clear and very public risk if not handled correctly.

By now, the term "omnichannel" seems to have lost some of its buzz in the payments world. And that’s because banks are learning that the process of creating a seamless cross-channel experience can't be summed up so succinctly.

Several community banks are turning their bright ideas into cold hard cash by selling or licensing products to other institutions.

In expanding its work with Facebook, American Express has introduced the Add a Card feature on its bot for Facebook Messenger.

The recent history of mobile wallets includes a lot of crashes and failures, but the people behind those projects are still around and are wiser for their experiences.

The collaboration will help consumers use WorldRemit funds to accounts in six new markets in Africa.

The deployment is aimed to make a national mobile payments migration more smooth and less costly.

LevelUp has worked mostly with smaller merchants. It's relationship with the merchant-focused Chase Pay will give it access to a much larger group of retailers.

The potential user base is huge. Tencent Holdings has 846 million global monthly active-user WeChat accounts, and more than 300 million have linked bank cards.

Amazon.com has set the standard for e-commerce with fast delivery, invisible payments and many other perks that keep consumers coming back to its site. Increasingly, the e-tailer has been experimenting with ways to streamline the payment process outside of the trappings of its website.

Mobile app photo IDs have had mixed success, but Credntia's betting an overall spike in mobile technology will lead to robust use of its app.

Both major brands are accelerating a move away from traditional checkout, and all retailers need to make adjustments for the future.

The mobile ticketing service is aimed at reducing lines, and is similar to a deal Atom has in place with Regal Cinemas.

There's been a rapid growth of cross-border payments and remittance startups, and CIBC responded with a major project designed to streamline transactions.

Maikki Frisk will become the Mobey Forum's executive director early next year, replacing Sirpa Nordlund, who is moving to a payments startup.

To launch its payments platform, Digitzs used crowdfunding as an alternative to the traditional venture capital. Its founder explains how it made that happen.