Economy

Season ticket holders of the Washington Nationals professional baseball team will soon pay for concessions and souvenirs with the same smart card they use to enter Nationals Park.

Banks may believe they can provide the best mobile wallet experience — but most have done very little to create their own product.

RuPay debit cardholders in India can now use their cards to make online purchases, using Acculynk's PaySecure online PIN pad authentication.

Barclays has introduced a new feature on its Pingit person-to-person money transfer application that brings retailers in the U.K. into the mobile payments fold.

Money transfer provider Xoom is making a push for mobile payments to improve the experience for the recipient of a money transfer.

Mary Gerdts came from humble beginnings but re-created herself as a business leader. Along the way, she helped ISOs win the respect of the payments industry.

Intuit now lets iPad owners who use its GoPayment mobile card reader scan credit and debit cards with the tablet's built-in camera.

The typical online and in-store checkout puts all payment options on equal footing. A few payment methods cut part or all of the checkout — and potentially cut off other payment options in the process.

Celltick is bringing its mobile payments coupon service to countries such as Indonesia and Russia — moves that confront some cultural hurdles for it to overcome.

The Metrolink rail system in Southern California is offering commuters a "smart" paper ticket as part of the transit access pass, or TAP, smart card system operating on Los Angeles buses and trains since 2007.

Iyzi Payments has raised $1.4 million from a group of undisclosed angel investors, and it will use the funds to build a new payments platform in Turkey.

Check, formerly PageOnce, is adding an expedited payment service to its mobile app.

Online ticket payment provider Picatic has the business model of a museum—its customers are expected to pay, but the amount is at least partly up to the patron.

Pindrop announced Wednesday that it's raised $11 million of Series A funding — the round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Citi Ventures.

Discover's’ arrangement to facilitate in-store PayPal transactions illustrates the card brand’s strategy of serving as a multifaceted utility in the payments system.

Too many small merchants operate websites that are difficult to navigate on mobile devices, and they haven’t upgraded point-of-sale terminals to accept mobile payments.

New nonbank companies entering the payments industry should be subject to the same regulatory oversight and transparency requirements as their financial institution peers, according to a report released by the American Bankers Association.

Electronic payments company Ixaris, which has about 20 corporate clients using its Ixaris Payments Server, will target corporate prepaid card-issuing financial institutions with the same technology.

Mobile payments companies and retailers will forge more partnerships where they retain customer identities, making it unnecessary to re-enter credit-card information, said John Collison, co-founder of Stripe Inc.

Stockholm-based iZettle is bringing its mobile card reader into Mexico.