With the backdrop of a tough financial second quarter, Apple executives both sang the praises of Apple Pay's uptick in consumer use and admitted the company has to view the mobile payment service as a future money maker rather than a key contributor now.

The growth of in-app and social media payments may please consumers, but merchants are worried that these new forms of card-not-present payments will expose them to more fraud liability.

A troubling gap is growing between the promises being made around mobile payments to consumers and merchants, and what payments technology providers are actually delivering, according to PayPal’s Bill Ready.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance affiliate has completed a record $4.5 billion equity fundraising round, according to two people familiar with the matter.

China's sheer size is an obvious attraction for companies involved in global payments and commerce, but the country poses hurdles that even giants like MasterCard and Visa find vexing.

Plastiq has launched an iPhone app that allows consumers in the U.S. and Canada to snap a photo of their bills to pay them.

Most modern mobile wallets didn't start out in their current form. Some didn't even start out as mobile apps.

A relatively new concept in the U.S., social payments are even newer in the U.K., where Circle hopes a collaboration with Barclays and a dash of blockchain will interest consumers in sending payments the same way the send tweets and texts.

More than a decade after U.S. payment card issuers endured the spectacular failure of contactless cards, some issuers wonder if it’s time to try again.

The commerce game is increasingly being played on a mobile field and so consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies must invest in a mobile strategy and specifically a mobile payment strategy soon, before they miss the boat.

Ingenico Group is confident it can translate consumers' love for big-screen entertainment into a payments technology blockbuster.

In its quest to supply small businesses with services that go beyond payments, First Data Corp.'s Clover subsidiary is extending e-commerce website support to its merchant clients beginning next month.

Transactis, a billing and payments company, has received a $30 million investment from Safeguard Scientifics and five banks.

Ingenico Group has begun offering tools to address some of the complex challenges in developing EMV-enabled mobile point of sale applications.

An e-commerce technology unit eBay sold last fall after separating from PayPal has reformulated itself as Radial, tailoring its services for online merchants that want to make the leap to omnichannel commerce.

The heat of battle can forge some unlikely bonds, as demonstrated by MasterCard and Western Union’s collaboration with the four-year-old mobile financial service provider bKash, giving the incumbents a foothold in omnichannel payments and making them a bigger threat to other newcomers.

Everything that makes Chase Pay possible is built on the foundation of ChaseNet.

The burgeoning market for pay-at-the-table solutions is drawing interest from many traditional payment industry players tackling restaurants’ problems, but one newcomer is gaining traction in the niche by making the consumer its primary focus.

Experts from across the payments industry gathered in Los Angeles for SourceMedia's annual Card Forum and Expo. Here are some of the biggest ideas discussed at this year's event.

The technology behind the snazzy new “bots” Facebook is rolling out for its Messenger chat app has enormous potential to internalize payments within social media experiences like shopping, travel and entertainment in new, more relevant ways.