Mobile payments

The expanding base of contract workers who use mobile apps to set up jobs and receive payment is upending traditional payroll practices, requiring new levels of speed and efficiency from financial services companies.

Subway is learning that to get people into its stores, its mobile app has to be every bit as compelling as its menu.

Visa Inc.’s mobile payments app, mVisa, has gone live in Kenya, where four local banks are supporting the QR code-based service.

When Apple came knocking on their doors to sign up credit unions for Apple Pay, these companies saw an opportunity to change their ways and start acting like nimble, modern financial institutions.

SourceMedia's annual PayThink conference is always boiling over with ideas and innovation. This year's event, which took place in New Orleans this month, was no exception.

German mobile payments startup SumUp failed to deliver on plans announced last year to invade the U.S., challenging Square on its home turf, but it wasn’t due to fear of the competition. Merchants were just much slower to act on EMV than SumUp expected.

Millennials hate banks so much, they’d rather go to the dentist than listen to what banks have to say. And digital payment alternatives are taking advantage.

While Barclays was slow to warm to Apple Pay in the U.K., the bank's aggressive development of its own bPay contactless payments technology has continued unabated with deployments ranging from gloves to saddles.

The latest iOS update will soon enable many consumers to initiate payments via voice command, but a German bank is one of the first to take its service live.

Hari Gopalkrishnan, Bank of America's managing director of client facing platforms technology, is adamant that the bank doesn't need to have its own mobile wallet today.