Mobile payments

The China-based payments company has long sought to enter the U.S. market.

At this week's Money2020 conference, payment execs like PayPal's Bill Ready say consumers will make purchases in a broad context of shopping, and if merchants aren’t poised to meet their audiences there, they will get left behind, Ready said.

In his last earnings call as Visa's CEO, Charles Scharf spoke about the card brand's outlook for new technology and China.

Visa and Mastercard are teaming up with wallet providers and technology companies to accelerate payments innovation.

The two companies hope to reduce paper checks and speed processing by removing navigation for claims processing.

Blockchain and the 'Internet of Things' are enabling a lot of new payments innovation. In Canada, they're part of a huge project that could radically change ID security for more than just payments.

Bluetooth beacons — small transmitters that retailers can use to broadcast offers to shoppers' mobile phones — have always lived at the periphery of the payments world. But that may be changing very soon.

Stores are realizing that they don't want to duplicate Starbucks' success.

The EMV and mobile wallet movements have split the retail industry, leaving payment companies in the delicate position of having to support clients with very different technological profiles.

Businesses may need to rethink their approaches to identity verification for millennial consumers.