E-commerce gateway Klarna will soon launch in the U.S., the latest Swedish payment company to seek market share in the country.

Mobile money transfer platform nTrust has expanded its merchant partner network, adding fashion retailers, antique stores, food trucks and bars.

The Asia-Pacific region has historically been the last target for U.S. corporate expansion. But fast advances in m-commerce are proving irresistible for outside payment companies.

The adoption of new anti-fraud card technology is prompting more community banks to consider supporting Apple Pay.

Seamless' strategy for its mobile wallet, SEQR, is simple and obvious: You can't scale internationally if you don't launch a product internationally.

Groupon may not have its own mobile wallet, but it has a strong foundation to build on: The 110 million downloads of its daily-discount app, plus the merchants using its Breadcrumb mobile point of sale system.

Merchants are making a new argument in their years-long battle with banks over swipe fees, saying Apple Pay has locked them out of additional routing options mandated by Dodd-Frank.

Rent payments are among the few lingering paper-based transactions, though a subset of the payments industry is shaking the trees to find ways to change that.

Europe is home to many innovative and disruptive banks, telcos and technology firms. Some of these are deploying mobile wallets that have the potential to span the entire continent.

French terminal maker Ingenico Group will use Intel Corp. technology to develop a mobile tablet that supports EMV chip card and Near Field Communication contactless payments.

As digital technology has reshaped the acquiring business, some of the industry's biggest names are making splashy investments in mobile payments and merchant marketing.

Mobile commerce is blurring the lines between card-present and card-not-present transactions, possibly even making the distinction—and the difference in pricing—irrelevant.

ProPay, a unit of the Columbus, Ga.-based TSYS, has introduced a suite of services aimed at simplifying the work of payment facilitators with aggregation and payment processing services.

Ingenico Group has expanded its iWL series of mobile terminal solutions to include a new Wi-Fi enabled model.

Apple Inc.'s new mobile-payment system is failing to capture all of its potential business, according to a survey, with two-thirds of users reporting problems using the service at the checkout counter.

Mozido LLC has added Host Card Emulation to its mobile payment platform, making an investment in SimplyTapp for access to its patented cloud-based technology.

Major Indian payments vendor Oxigen is planning for some serious expansion—to the tune of 1,500 new hires and roughly $200 million in new fundraising by June—as it starts focusing on suburban and rural India especially in east and central India, according to a PTI report in Livemint.

When it comes to biometric authentication, Samsung is looking way beyond fingerprints.

Modern payment terminals are streamlining the update process for merchants by enabling instant updates of their capabilities, and U.S. Bank is taking advantage of this technology to rapidly get new offerings to market.

Santander Innoventures Fund says it has earmarked $5 million to Israel-based mobile payment and loyalty provider MyCheck as its first investment.