Long one of mobile payments' success stories, Starbucks reports major gains in both mobile ordering and payments.

Payments technology is showing up in places that were unimaginable just a few years ago. That creates new opportunities for merchants and banks, but also new opportunities for fraudsters.

The newest Samsung smartwatch will include the Samsung Pay mobile wallet to allow users to make payments at terminals that accept swipe or contactless payments.

Application programming interfaces have grown so quickly, they're no longer the future of payments. They're the present.

An increasing number of shoppers use a mix of digital and in-store to research, shop and pay. Retailers must accommodate all three to stay relevant, according to Revel.

When Android Pay launched, Google Wallet became a P-to-P service. That market's getting popular, and Google is responding with a web upgrade.

Alibaba is taking advantage of a consumer shift to shopping on mobile devices as it uses its massive computing power and investments in data centers.

Linked2pay is expanding a text-based, person-to-person payment service to allow banks to offer it for card and Automated Clearing House payments.

Larsen will hand the reins and the CEO title at Ripple over to Brad Garlinghouse, who is currently the company’s president and chief operating officer.

PayPal still has a big lead over banks’ digital payment offerings, despite the many advances banks have made in recent years, a new study suggests.

The race to dominate person-to-person transfers has been a curious one so far, because P-to-P typically isn’t a money-maker for banks or even for PayPal, whose Venmo unit is generating red-hot growth this year in the category.

Less than a week after revealing it will bring Alipay payment options to U.S. terminals, Ant Financial has signed an agreement with Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Business-led mobile payment apps can build deeper relationships with consumers, and right now that beats the third party mobile wallets.

South Korea’s LG last year rolled out LG Pay, a mobile wallet that took an indirect approach to contactless payments by leveraging Bluetooth technology to link to a proprietary “white” card that stored a user’s payment cards. The concept never took off, and a new report suggests LG is making another run at mobile payments, using different technology.

Samsung Pay is steadily spreading across the globe and adding new features, but it's also facing some strong challenges in these markets. Here are a few of the biggest issues Samsung's mobile wallet has faced since launch.

Prepaid cards and new mobile innovation in prepaid can bring speed and improve user experience for many different payment types and other financial services.

As cars' onboard computers get smarter, payments are coming along for the ride—but always taking a back seat to other features.

Apple Pay became a significant benefactor at Apple's new product presentation Oct. 27, as the mobile wallet's Touch ID authentication is incorporated into a flashy new MacBook Pro keyboard.

IBM took the banking world by storm last month when it revealed its planned acquisition of Promontory Financial Group. Now, it has unveiled IBM Pay, a perhaps unexpected and yet unsurprising addition to the technology giant's Watson Commerce unit.

Walmart and Dunkin' Donuts have poured millions of dollars into their proprietary mobile payment apps, and their most interesting lessons are the ones they didn't expect to learn.