Uber recently changed its model in India to more appropriately serve the local population, welcoming auto rickshaws and cash payments. But these changes are unlikely to tackle the bigger issues the ride-sharing service faces in the country.

With ample fueling from mobile transactions, the potential for converting point of sale data into CRM and marketing data is massive. But as full of potential as this merger is across all retail purchases, it's particularly strong down market—and the smaller the business, the better.

The restaurant chain Olive Garden will begin using Ziosk tablets to accept payments at the table starting next month.

Two companies are working to make gift cards not only interactive, but almost self-aware.

Smart Communications Inc. has secured an issuing and acquiring license from Visa for its Smart e-Money electronic payment business in Southeast Asia.

The Canadian government is extending its code of conduct for payment cards to any mobile transactions, while also assuring retailers that any savings from reduced interchange will be passed along to them.

Digital payment providers are finally earning the same level of consumer trust that banks have long cherished.

There’s a fintech rivalry brewing between New York City and London. But in terms of transit payments, London is winning with an interoperable contactless system that runs more smoothly than New York's MetroCard.

Google has scrapped and rebuilt pieces of its mobile wallet many times, and it looks like those years of tinkering are paying off as more merchants adopt Google Wallet.

While the big players in mobile have arrived—Apple, Samsung and Google, the result has been a trade of one form of complexity for another.

If Apple Pay comes to Spain anytime soon, supermarket chain Mercadona will be ready for it.

Executives at card networks and issuers are concluding that tried-and-true marketing methods can still expand card acceptance in an increasingly digital world.

YapStone has named technology and payments systems veteran Daniel Issen as its new chief technology officer.

Experts from the banking, retail and technology sectors gathered last week for SourceMedia's annual Card Forum and Expo, sharing their predictions for the payments industry's next step. Some were involved in Apple Pay from day one; others are looking past it to the next big thing.

Papa John's is integrating its mobile and online checkout process with Venmo, a PayPal-owned system that fuses mobile and social networking to enable person to person payments.

From RBC's perspective, the future will be better served by multi-purpose devices like the Apple Watch, which can store multiple card accounts and be controlled by the consumer from a Bluetooth-connected smartphone.

Only 10 people in the bank were allowed to know what the project's goal was, and the other Apple Pay partners were known only by code names. But even though Apple was running the show pre-launch, U.S. Bank had a daunting task ahead of it once the restrictions lifted and Apple revealed its mobile wallet to the world.

After a making a number of adjustments to overcome a shaky start, Google Wallet is starting to build momentum with merchants, this week adding Shopify, Dunkin Donuts and Seamless to the roster of companies supporting the search company's mobile wallet.

With so much focus on specific mobile devices and form factors for delivering a payment, banks and issuers can lose sight of the fact that consumers will ultimately decide how and when they will pay, said Cheryl Guerin, executive vice president and U.S. product and solutions lead for MasterCard Inc.

CHICAGO -- A gender disconnect in mobile payments is emerging as one of the persistent obstacles to the new technology.