Mobile payments

More banks are showing interest in developing their own branded mobile wallets, and Visa has launched a platform to make that possible.

The same multichannel shopping and payment experiences that are designed to reduce cart abandonment may also pose hard-to-spot vulnerabilities that can threaten information security.

Her prepaid card may have been short-lived, but superstar Kim Kardashian West still has opinions about payments.

Oberthur Technologies has teamed with Chinese smartwatch maker Mobvoi and China UnionPay (CUP), to add contactless payments technology to Mobvoi’s popular Ticwatch.

Verifone and its beacon technology provider Footmarks are partnering with Allrecipes.com and grocery retailer Marc’s in Ohio to deliver meal recommendations to shoppers.

Months after announcing plans to launch Apple Pay, Yum Brands’ Kentucky Fried Chicken this week said it’s enabling the mobile wallet—along with Android Pay and Samsung Pay at the same time.

Merchants sued Visa and MasterCard in 1996 when the card networks forced them to "honor all cards," and though the suit settled in 2003, the wounds are reopening with the spread of mobile wallets.

As PayPal has grown over the years, it has made enemies. Some of these rivalries were short-lived, while others persist to this day.

In what could bring major visibility to the emerging market for wearable payments, Visa today unveiled an NFC-enabled piece of jewelry it’s giving to 45 Olympic athletes on Team Visa.

Open development techniques have contributed to a boom in online and mobile commerce by making it possible for more applications to interact with one another, but now more attention is being devoted to how fraudsters exploit these systems at merchants, payment companies and card issuers.