Mobile payments

As Starbucks prepares to transition its top executives into new roles, it helps to look back on its history in mobile payments and examine how its management structure helped this plan. Here are a few of the key decisions the company made.

Investors initially jeered Howard Schultz's decision to step down as Starbucks' CEO, though the famed mobile strategy that's helped spur the coffee chain's high performance over the past couple of years doesn't necessarily require the company's founder to be in its biggest office.

American Express has added a new mobile payment service to the growing list of "Pays" available to consumers in Canada.

Howard Schultz, who built the coffee empire over the past three decades and served two separate stints as CEO, will step down next year, handing the reins to technology veteran Kevin Johnson.

Ant Financial’s attempt to add a social-network function to China’s biggest payments platform has backfired.

USAA has debuted several new features designed to make its digital wallet more versatile and to cast payments as one of a series of services.

Bank of New York Mellon has created a dedicated innovation group for launching new technologies in its treasury services unit.

Citigroup mobile-app users can now track the status of deliveries of replacement credit cards.

The growth of China’s fintech scene is providing a less developed financial market with much-needed updates. But those improvements also serve as a stepping stone to bring Chinese fintech players to Western markets.

Retailers are adding e-commerce services quickly, but older technology systems are making the migration difficult.

As the holiday shopping season kicks off, retailers are preparing for an influx of payment volume from shoppers and scammers alike. Here are a few of the problems they face.

Stripe Inc. raised new financing that values the startup at about $9 billion, cementing its status as a major player in the crowded digital payments space and heralding a possible initial public offering.

U.S. fuel cards were a relatively complacent niche until a few years ago, when a wave of consolidations and digital innovations transformed the $66 billion-plus industry into a hotbed of competition.

The spread of new payment technology and omnichannel commerce are changing the way people shop during the holiday season, even in brick-and-mortar stores. Here are a few noteworthy trends this season.

Few of Apple's numerous patent applications make it to market, but if the consumer electronics giant follows through on one filed last week, iPhone users may have the Siri virtual assistant helping them with person-to-person payments through the iMessage platform.

EBay Inc., struggling to turn itself around and catch up with dominant Amazon.com Inc., has invented a new day: Mobile Wednesday.

The app will be available at 7,500 Starbucks locations in the U.S. and 1,400 Best Buy locations, and is part of a much broader rollout that's expected to last into early next year.

India's cash crisis may threaten the country's traditional wedding season. Uber is attempting to solve some of the problem with a new car booking service.

Biometrics has long had an interoperability gap. Visa is trying to address that with a new project that brings flexibility to biometric options.

The Scan & Go mobile app went live last month at Sam’s Club, allowing consumers to scan their own items as they shop and pay within the app, an innovation that could cut down on checkout lines.