Digital payments
Digital payments
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Dunkin' Donuts, in a bid to catch up to the technology prowess of Starbucks Corp., is testing on-the-go ordering and delivery service in some U.S. markets.
November 18 -
Despite many merchants' resistance to the EMV migration in the U.S., the chip-card technology can become more appetizing when it is baked into another item on the terminal maker's menu.
November 18 -
Mobile ticketing for mass transit has a rare quality in mobile payments it addresses a pain point that consumers actually long to have solved.
November 18 -
Apple Pay has come to its third market, Canada, following a 2014 debut in the U.S. and a mid-2015 expansion to the U.K.
November 17 -
Icahn Associates Corp., the fund run by billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, sold its remaining eBay Inc. stake at the same time as it reported a 3.8 percent holding in the Internet auction companys spun off payments unit PayPal Holdings Inc.
November 17 -
After years of supporting payments research and building a reputation of being friendly toward technology startups, American Express is bringing its key technologies under the Amex Enabled Digital Solutions umbrella.
November 17 -
First Data and NCR Corp. are flexing their scale muscles in an agreement that brings the technology strength of both companies to the grocery, petroleum and convenience store industries and expands NCR's ATM footprint.
November 16 -
Pilots have to pay for gas and let air traffic controllers know when they need it, but a mobile payment app can help them do that while eliminating paperwork and managing other tasks common with flying corporate, private or charter planes.
November 16 -
A few months after introducing its mobile wallet in the U.S., BBVA is attempting to lure adoption through 'instant' cash-back credit card rewards for qualified transactions at checkout.
November 16 -
At a time when the financial services industry is moving toward faster payments, a handful of entrepreneurs are looking to narrow the gap between an honest day's work and an honest day's pay.
November 13 -
After unveiling Square Payroll in California earlier this year as another component in its strategy to aid small businesses, Square Inc. is expanding the service for businesses with hourly or salaried employees into Texas.
November 13 -
Video games have long been supportive of new payment systems, in part because many games cater to an audience that may be too young to have a traditional bank account or credit card. But can gamers also be a good target market for financing?
November 13 -
Apple is reportedly adding person-to-person payments to Apple Pay, based on technology from the bank-run clearXchange network. If this feature comes to market, it will face many competing systems that run on Apple's own handsets.
November 12 -
MasterCard has made a series of changes to its executive slate, including the appointment of a chief information officer.
November 12 -
Amazon is constantly unleashing new payment-related products and services. Some efforts succeed, some fail and the rest are a mixed bag but regardless of the outcome, retailers have a golden opportunity to learn from Amazon's experimentation.
November 12 -
Barclaycard's first range of wearable bPay devices never looked like they had a home on the fashion runway, but the issuer is betting the fashion brand TopShop can make it in vogue.
November 12 -
Apple is reportedly going to its bank partners with a pitch to tie in their scale to jump-start an Apple-branded person-to-person payment system.
November 11 -
MasterCard is extending its Zero Liability protection to cardholders and small businesses in all of its markets in an effort to recalibrate the program to match the realities of digital commerce.
November 11 -
MasterCard is integrating software developer Cardteks HCEXpert solution to enable Near Field Communication-based mobile payments for customers of MasterCard Payment Transaction Services, a unit of MasterCard.
November 11 -
The term "mobile wallet wars" has been part of financial services lingo for several years, with banks, merchants and software companies fighting for control of digital payments. But the real battle is taking place in an entirely different arena.
November 11



