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.

The world of payments is changing, and a lot of that change results from the dedication of innovative retailers. Whether partnering with payment companies or going it alone, these brands are putting fresh ideas into practice.

Loyalty marketing is considered a substantial lure for mobile payments, but the introduction of new channels also complicates the strategy, according to Kevin Wray, the chief commercial officer at Switchfly.

Visa launched its Visa Developer platform earlier this year to open up to third-party developers and bring more attention to digital commerce, a move that gives its second annual "Everywhere Initiative" even more meaning.

PayPal Holdings Inc. reported first-quarter sales and profit that beat estimates, adding customers against an onslaught of competition from credit-card issuers, startups and smartphone makers looking for a piece of the fast-growing digital payments market.

It's been a tough time to be a mobile point of sale company, but SumUp believes it's found the right formula to not only get through the shakeout but to thrive.

American Express is giving a limited number of Uber riders access to Beyoncé's Formation concert tour, in the latest example of a financial services company allying with the tech-savvy ridesharing service.

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.