A lot of change in the payments business is unavoidable, such as EMV-chip cards and mobile commerce, so the high-tech card maker Stratos plans to replace its cards each year as part of a membership program.

It is fitting that Apple CEO Tim Cook opened the Apple Watch presentation by showing off a Mickey Mouse watch face. The Apple Watch shares a lot more than its design sense with Disney's successful MagicBand wearables.

Digital money transfer company Xoom is working with the bank HBL to enable instant deposits in more Pakistani bank accounts.

James Anderson, senior vice president of shared platform services in the emerging payments group at MasterCard, has been "droning on" for nearly a decade about contactless payments. And the industry is finally catching up.

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The retail services market is flooded with Web-based developer tools that allow small businesses with little tech expertise to develop payment capabilities. But to companies like vCita, these toolkits are still too hard to use.

Transfast has upped its game in Kenya, offering instant deposits to three banks in the country and connecting its service with M-Pesa mobile money accounts, a poster child for mobile payment success.

Merchants are far from helpless bystanders as Apple and banks sort out who is responsible for stopping fraudulent cards from being enrolled in the Apple Pay mobile wallet.

Apple Pay, which pre-rollout was praised for its security features, was in the center of a storm this week when some called the security of Apple's mobile wallet into question, claiming that 6% of transactions are fraudulent.

Mobile technology has enabled financial services in a number of African countries, and MasterCard is working to expand this model by tying it directly to a national identity program in Egypt.

Japanese mobile app provider Line Corp. will use CyberSource's e-commerce payment services to expand the Line Pay mobile payment service by supporting more payment options.

Mobile network operators have faced setbacks in mobile payments, but some experts insist they still have a place in the market. Others are not so sure.

PayPal will be an attractive payments partner and is open to new alliances after completing its spinoff from parent eBay Inc., PayPal's incoming chief executive Dan Schulman told investors.

A South African payments company has established a consumer-facing subsidiary in London to enable its worldwide expansion over the next few years.

MasterCard and Visa are using Samsung's mobile wallet to further the adoption of tokenization and other security methods at the point of sale, but safety concerns still cast a shadow on mobile payments and commerce.

MasterCard has entered into an agreement with African mobile banking and payment services company eTranzact International to provide remittance services to Nigerian consumers.

Mobile check-in and pay has been underused in most markets, but a German bagel shop hopes the technology can encourage normally cash-reliant Germans to go digital.

Square hopes to broaden its reach with its core micro-merchant market by offering technology to tap the $1.6 trillion e-commerce market.

The micro-merchants that were first enabled to accept magstripe card payments from mobile card-reader are now getting the ability to accept contactless payments with hardware from Ingenico.

Visa and Pizza Hut are banking on pizza ordering and payment in the future to take place inside of automobiles.