PayPal's gotten off to a rousing start as an independent company, but Visa CEO Charlie Scharf doesn't appear to be worried.

Loyalty programs are typically viewed as a consumer-facing marketing play, but the shift to mobile commerce is bringing these programs deeper into the supply chain.

Starbucks now handles nearly nine million mobile transactions each week in its U.S. stores, representing 20% of sales and more than double the figure it reported two years ago.

Europe's clash over interchange rates is being spun into marketing gold by alternative payment companies like Seamless.

Even if shoppers of Amazon.com's Prime Day event — advertised as better than Black Friday — found more to mock than to buy, the promotion last week marked the acceleration of an "on-demand economy" that other retailers can no longer ignore.

Apple executives didn’t flaunt Apple Pay transaction numbers or Apple Watch sales figures during a July 21 third-quarter earnings call, but they did provide some measure of merchant acceptance of the growing mobile payment system.

Apple Inc. showed how to combine biometrics and tokenization in a mainstream product, and now companies of all sizes are working to build on this combination.

The credit union-led CU Wallet is working to attract small-business support by drawing on the local ethos that credit unions have nurtured for years, but it faces a formidable challenge as device makers such as Apple and Samsung bake their own wallets into the hardware.

Two companies have partnered to serve the rapidly expanding mobile personal finance and remittance markets in Africa and Asia.

Global e-commerce and payment solutions provider Mozido has acquired a majority of NettCash, a Zimbabwe-based mobile wallet provider, to strengthen its foothold in Africa.

For the first time, physical goods are the most purchased items on mobile devices, according to a recent report from Javelin Strategy and Research. But the bigger takeaway is what this means for bringing mobile payments into other channels.

NCR has launched a new tablet-based point-of-sale device aimed at minimizing security risks for the merchants that use it.

Toronto's mass transit system is embarking on a mobile ticketing initiative that the system's operators hope will become the dominant payment system within three years — a time frame that demonstrates how hard it is to migrate to new payment technology.

Independent sales organizations are facing an age-old question that has confronted teenagers for centuries: What are they going to do with their future?

E-commerce fraud management platform provider Ethoca has raised $45 million in investment after significant growth last year.

Samsung has begun piloting its mobile payment system in South Korea, the first step in a gradual rollout of a system that's designed to play nice with retailers' older point of sale systems.

Major tech companies are building payment capabilities into their mobile apps, social networks and other offerings. These projects coincide with a rise in mobile commerce, potentially creating a new standard for how consumers shop.

As PayPal sets to formally split from eBay on July 20, President and CEO Dan Schulman is setting a goal to vastly increase how often consumers use PayPal.

When a restaurant chain's senior marketing manager ran a location-based offer trial this summer, she was quite surprised to see a mobile conversion rate that topped 45% — which meant that almost one out of every two consumers who were pinged by the chain's mobile app drove to the store and made a purchase.

Google is firming up plans for a feature that allows consumers to buy products directly from a retailer's ad on a mobile phone, part of a Silicon Valley-driven trend that would place card issuers at a disadvantage.