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Mastercard has formed a strategic partnership with Tappy Technologies, a Hong Kong-based internet of things firm, to develop designer branded contactless payments-enabled wearables, starting with Timex.

A cloud of biometric authentication is what will transport us to our own, even better version of the real-time payment-enabled future, says Enacomm's Michael Boukadakis.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is at an end, but the issues dogging credit unions aren't going anywhere.

A few weeks after debuting voice-supported recurring bill payments in India, Amazon is extending a similar feature to most of its markets.

The card networks’ new buy button, called "click to pay," is merely a stepping stone to providing a foundation for pervasive, invisible payments.

Retail technology provider Standard Cognition is putting its quick-rising valuation to work to stockpile tools as the checkout-free market enters a more competitive phase.

The next generation of wireless communication will lead to more devices being connected to the internet, creating additional vulnerabilities for credit unions to guard against.

Checkout-free tech has only just left the gate, but has tons of promise as a way to shed lines and collect data — just the mix that sports facilities are looking for.

The world’s biggest restaurant company is buying startup Apprente Inc., a developer of voice-recognition technology for use in the restaurant industry, to help speed up lines. The idea is to eventually have a machine, instead of a person, on the other side of the intercom to relay orders to kitchen staff.

Virtual assistants are being brought forward into a variety of other internet-of-things devices such as automobiles and appliances, with the goal of finding new moments where consumers are willing to spend money — sometimes guided by machine learning.