Apple Pay's slow expansion around the world seems to have gotten a jolt with the announcement of multiple Canadian issuers signing on, but it still faces many of the same roadblocks that have plagued adoption elsewhere.

The 'app economy' is getting larger by the year, and a team of entrepreneurs firmly rooted in the payments establishment sees big trouble ahead when it comes to facilitating transactions.

PayPal next month is cutting off purchase protection for payments to crowdfunding sites, as the model for raising seed money for projects online begins to mature. The new policy goes into effect June 25, the company noted in an update to its user agreement.

Corporate payments services company Bottomline Technologies has introduced a mobile solution that would allow U.K businesses to pay customers quickly and directly.

Carrier billing provider Bango has purchased BilltoMobile and its contracts from Danal Inc., making Bango a processor of carrier billing transactions across all major mobile networks in the U.S.

Dwolla has forwarded its proposal for faster payments to a Federal Reserve Board task force studying submissions as part of a national initiative, and its voice is one of several seeking to make a difference in the country's move to faster payments.

MasterCard is taking an obscure domestic mobile service global, with the hope of jump-starting innovations that would otherwise be locked to a specific region of the world.

Square's practice of using its merchant transaction data for risk analysis may seem innovative, but other other agile specialists—including Intuit—are finding ways to use new data streams to limit risk and deliver funds to borrowers.

Counterfeit card fraud is finally on the way down as EMV creeps into the U.S. marketplace, but card not present (CNP) fraud through online channels is skyrocketing. It's too soon, however, to blame the EMV shift.

Mobile wallets may not have eliminated cash and cards, but they are becoming almost unavoidable in many retail settings. However, there are still a few areas where mobile technology is slow to arrive.

While it's generally good news when a business gets larger, that growth can quickly get stunted if the company gets hamstrung by a more complicated supply chain.

Though many have tried and failed to get bitcoin into the mainstream, iPayYou CEO Gene Kavner is ready to take a page out of the playbook of Amazon.com, his former employer, to bring attention to his new bitcoin wallet.

Jay Z’s music-streaming service Tidal has selected Ingenico ePayments as the platform to accept payments in 45 countries.

Department store chain Kohl’s has stitched together two of the most frustrating elements of checking out: adding loyalty points at the same time the payment goes through.

Five years ago, Dwolla took its ambitious approach to speeding up payments to financial institutions, viewing banks as a core audience in need of modernizing its aging infrastructure. But more recently, the company had to make a sharp course correction in its strategy.

Uber riders that prefer to pay with Google Wallet will have to switch to Android Pay on May 9, according to emails reportedly sent out to Google Wallet users.

Eager to appease EMV-weary stores, Sionic Mobile is finishing tests on a system that uses a three-digit code to execute payments via mobile devices.

The expansion of devices connected to the Internet of Things is raising security and privacy concerns, spurring the Smart Card Alliance (SCA) to take action.

It’s rare to see much fanfare around the launch of a mobile banking app these days. But for the U.S. Treasury Department, this milestone signals it’s nearing the end of its long quest to modernize the delivery of federal benefits—even for consumers locked out of traditional banking systems.

A partnership between carrier billing provider Boku and digital music service Spotify will allow consumers in Germany and Italy to subscribe to Spotify using their mobile phone numbers.