A query from one of Malauzai's bank software clients, Redding Bank of Commerce in California, helped spark an idea to create a wallet app that's geared toward small businesses that have also not yet made the leap to mobile commerce.

Most mobile wallet providers and retailers have been hunting for the magic formula that would seamlessly blend loyalty and mobile payments, in the hopes that one would inevitably fuel the other. But it's a delicate recipe, and very easy to get wrong.

Globe Telecom, the Philippines' largest wireless carrier, has formed a partnership for carrier billing with Fortumo, enabling its mobile phone customers to bill digital purchases to their monthly wireless statement.

Western Union has opened U.S.-to-Cuba digital money transfer through its mobile app and website.

More banks are showing interest in developing their own branded mobile wallets, and Visa has launched a platform to make that possible.

The same multichannel shopping and payment experiences that are designed to reduce cart abandonment may also pose hard-to-spot vulnerabilities that can threaten information security.

Her prepaid card may have been short-lived, but superstar Kim Kardashian West still has opinions about payments.

Oberthur Technologies has teamed with Chinese smartwatch maker Mobvoi and China UnionPay (CUP), to add contactless payments technology to Mobvoi’s popular Ticwatch.

Verifone and its beacon technology provider Footmarks are partnering with Allrecipes.com and grocery retailer Marc’s in Ohio to deliver meal recommendations to shoppers.

Months after announcing plans to launch Apple Pay, Yum Brands’ Kentucky Fried Chicken this week said it’s enabling the mobile wallet—along with Android Pay and Samsung Pay at the same time.

Merchants sued Visa and MasterCard in 1996 when the card networks forced them to "honor all cards," and though the suit settled in 2003, the wounds are reopening with the spread of mobile wallets.

As PayPal has grown over the years, it has made enemies. Some of these rivalries were short-lived, while others persist to this day.

In what could bring major visibility to the emerging market for wearable payments, Visa today unveiled an NFC-enabled piece of jewelry it’s giving to 45 Olympic athletes on Team Visa.

Open development techniques have contributed to a boom in online and mobile commerce by making it possible for more applications to interact with one another, but now more attention is being devoted to how fraudsters exploit these systems at merchants, payment companies and card issuers.

PayPal's split from eBay was supposed to sweeten its appeal to merchants, but it’s also stoking rivals in the payments industry — in particular Visa CEO Charlie Scharf.

The last three of Canada’s large banks today said they’ve launched Apple Pay, joining the country's Interac debit network and the company's few other financial providers to enable Apple's digital wallet to completely blanket Canada.

It’s too soon to know how the futuristic Internet of Things (IoT) — the array of Web-connected devices and home appliances — will handle payments, but older concepts such as Near Field Communication and prepaid cards already have an advantage.

PayNearMe has long offered a service designed for consumers who prefer to use cash in a digital world, but even it has to accept the need to get on board with electronic payments.

Samsung announced a partnership with Citibank Singapore Limited enabling support for Samsung Pay on newer Samsung handsets in the Singapore region. Samsung Pay will launch there this summer following a pilot, the technology maker said in a May 30 press release.

EMV certification provider Fime has received EMVCo approval to support the use of its global test tool for the development of payment applications that use a handset's secure element.