Mobile payments

The term real-time payments is a slight misnomer. It focuses the industry and the market on the outcome instead of the input.

Facebook is poking its fingers into a lot of seemingly unrelated businesses, but commerce is always at the heart of its efforts. Here are some ways Facebook is building a new foundation for payments.

Many of the major mergers and acquisitions in the payments industry the past few years have had an underlying goal -- improve chances to make a splash in retail omnichannel payments.

Come this fall, Apple will begin to allow third-party apps to access several of its internal capabilities, most notably Siri's application program interface.

Apple Pay has underperformed most expectations, but there are signs the technology company's iconic brand can draw mobile payment users when the marketing is in the right place.

Check image specialist CheckAlt has acquired receivables transaction management provider Klik Technologies, a deal CheckAlt hopes will boost its profile as the financial services and corporate payments markets turn toward mobile-based technology to process checks.

As JPMorgan Chase gears up for the launch of the merchant-friendly Chase Pay wallet, it's taking the opportunity to freshen its approach to P-to-P mobile payments.

Samsung Pay has launched in Australia with support from American Express and Citigroup, though it said it is expanding its "partnership ecosystem."

E-commerce merchant sites powered through IBM commerce solutions will soon be able to offer customers Apple Pay as a payment option.

Caffe Ladro's had an online store for years, but it's never been as important as it is today, as the Seattle chain faces competitors — including the notoriously tech-savvy Starbucks — that have stretched the limits of how to sell coffee online and through mobile devices.