Recognizing that younger consumers are not as tied to their personal computers because of smartphones, Conestoga Bank of Chester Springs, Pa., is integrating mobile banking directly to its core system.

If tollway drivers can pay for tolls with an in-vehicle device, why can’t those drivers do the same when parking?

Even USAA Federal Savings Bank, one of the most aggressive in its use of technology, is treading carefully in social media and mobile, where the slightest privacy SNAFU can spark a major outcry.

Google Inc. faced some resistance in putting Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus phone when the Android smartphone model launched with other carriers, but Sprint says it will support the nascent mobile payment system from day one.

WASHINGTON–The nation's capital is starting to pay attention to mobile payments. Whether that sharpening focus will help or hurt the industry's growth, however, remains an open question.

Location-based offers are a major selling point of mobile wallets, but one company recently told the feature to get lost.

The payments industry is seeing only the “first steps” of Near Field Communication development as a contactless-payment technology, so it stands to reason that lawsuits related to NFC patents would not be far behind.

Discover's new deal with BilltoMobile looks like yet another way to cover its bets as mobile payments evolves in multiple directions.

Seeing a major opportunity in the U.S. market, Monitise PLC and Clairmail Inc. on March 26 announced a merger deal in which they will cross-pollinate and cross-sell each other's technology in their respective markets.

If PayPal Inc. strikes with a new payment application, it stands to reason Square Inc. would respond with a new twist on its mobile-payment service.

One in three U.S. adults is interested in mobile and Near Field Communication-based payments, new data suggest.

A Singapore-based company last week announced the planned launched of a mobile-payment service that uses a card-reader device similar to the one offered by Square Inc. and other companies.

WASHINGTON–Congress on March 22 took its first cautious steps into mobile payments with a House hearing focused on security issues and prudent regulation for the rapidly evolving mobile market.

Venmo Inc. has lifted the “Invitation Only” sign off of its social mobile-payments application, hoping to expand quickly a person-to-person payment system that already accommodates as much as $10 million in transaction volume per month.

Malaysia is proceeding with a government-backed initiative that would let citizens pay for government services using their mobile phones and tablets.

The ways riders can pay–and play–inside New York taxicabs are expanding.

Maybe it’s the Ides of March for the mobile-payments industry.

Younger consumers have the keenest interest in banks’ mobile-payments services, but most adults overall still have cold feet when it comes to paying with their phones.

For small merchants who want to accept mobile transactions, Apple Inc. makes the go-to machines, the iPad and the iPhone.

The recent explosion of new mobile-payment initiatives, from new startups backed by heavy venture capital to formidable players such as PayPal Inc. is enough to give the average banker heartburn.