Mobile payments

Electronic payment provider Finnet will deliver its service in Indonesia through a partnership with Cellum and its Mobile Next platform.

Digital transactions tied to travel are growing quickly, putting pressure on airlines to support third party mobile wallets and other e-commerce options.

The merchants increasingly have to manage different technology for contactless and card payments, leading to a terminal upgrade.

Trustonic aims to monetize its services by supporting authentication methods such as biometrics, and managing tokens for high-value transactions,

There are lots of new technology driven payment startups, though most still at least partly rely on the traditional card/bank model.

Barclaycard has embedded payments technology in lots of wearables over the past few years, including gloves and jewelry.

Financial services companies such as PayPal, Lydia and RBC are testing chatbots on platforms such as Slack and Facebook Messenger.

The payments industry has been overrun with innovation in mobile, wearable and cloud-based digital payments. But many niches are years — if not decades — behind this trend.

As more payment and financial services companies use the app store, there's vulnerability to new cyber attacks that try to take advantage.

The mobile point of sale company's partnership with the coffee chain was designed to bring Square's mobile payments technology into Starbucks locations. But the partnership didn't pan out and ended a couple of years ago.