Biometric authentication is coming to numerous e-commerce merchants who may not realize that it will be a part of their checkout process, depending on the issuers involved.

Financial services and payments technology provider Affirm says it has raised $100 million in a round of equity funding.

Card firm MBNA has joined the first wave of issuers to offer Samsung Pay when it launches in the United Kingdom.

GORUCK sells what's called "rucking," something so unusual that one of the first things on its website is a link called "what is rucking?"

AOC Solutions in Chantilly, Va., has launched Transact Global, a processing platform exclusively for digital payments among businesses that still rely on manual processing.

Allied Wallet, a London-based online payments processor, completed a payments gateway integration with Marco Fine Arts Inc., enabling the printing specialist’s customers to accept payments in 196 countries, the companies said April 11.

Ingenico Group has acquired a startup company that will help the French terminal manufacturer advance "screen commerce" by connecting devices to display screens for payment, marketing or loyalty programs.

"Omnichannel" isn't just a buzzword to describe marketing and payments in different formats—it also applies to corporate dealmaking as merchant acquirers catch M&A fever.

Nowait is adding payments to an app that manages customer wait lists at restaurants that don’t take reservations.

Many consumers still prefer to use cash when they owe someone else money. And plenty owe the Internal Revenue Service money at this time of year.

A taxpayer's annual refund is a big prize that fraudsters are eager to steal. Many new risks are being introduced by new technology, but there are cross-industry efforts to combat these new schemes and make sure each refund gets to the proper household.

Cutting out every step except one—opening the app—Domino's Pizza has introduced what may be the most streamlined approach yet to ordering and paying for delivery with its Zero-Click Ordering app, which launched this week for iOS and Android.

Mobile payment users are set to soar in the coming years and this is the chief reason competitive businesses need to get on board.

When JPMorgan Chase recently launched a new website, Gavin Michael, head of digital for consumer and community banking, credited much of the success and speed (it took 18 months) of the project to the bank's recent migration to agile development.

Seeing its opening in the mobile wallet market, Mobeewave's pushing a product that exists somewhere between the models of Square and Venmo, resurrecting a relatively old idea of having people pay each other by using their phones.

Card-not-present fraud is creating "silent revenue killers" for card issuers because many consumers will close their accounts after dealing with fraud from shopping online, new research indicates.

With Barclays at long last offering Apple Pay to its customers, Apple can now say it has a lineup of the U.K.'s largest banks supporting its mobile pay system.

The demise of the plastic Google Wallet card may be bad news for Google and anyone who keeps a balance with its digital wallet, but Amex and Simple both see something familiar, and attractive, in the card's audience.

Amazon's new global partner program focuses on working with online platform providers and developers, similar to how mainstream payment technology companies work with independent sales organizations to reach new clients.

In order for mobile payments to be successful, there has to be a sustained effort to communicate the worth and educate both the consumer and the merchant.