Mobile payments

Plastiq has launched an iPhone app that allows consumers in the U.S. and Canada to snap a photo of their bills to pay them.

Most modern mobile wallets didn't start out in their current form. Some didn't even start out as mobile apps.

A relatively new concept in the U.S., social payments are even newer in the U.K., where Circle hopes a collaboration with Barclays and a dash of blockchain will interest consumers in sending payments the same way the send tweets and texts.

More than a decade after U.S. payment card issuers endured the spectacular failure of contactless cards, some issuers wonder if it’s time to try again.

The commerce game is increasingly being played on a mobile field and so consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies must invest in a mobile strategy and specifically a mobile payment strategy soon, before they miss the boat.

Ingenico Group is confident it can translate consumers' love for big-screen entertainment into a payments technology blockbuster.

Ingenico Group has begun offering tools to address some of the complex challenges in developing EMV-enabled mobile point of sale applications.

The heat of battle can forge some unlikely bonds, as demonstrated by MasterCard and Western Union’s collaboration with the four-year-old mobile financial service provider bKash, giving the incumbents a foothold in omnichannel payments and making them a bigger threat to other newcomers.

Everything that makes Chase Pay possible is built on the foundation of ChaseNet.

The burgeoning market for pay-at-the-table solutions is drawing interest from many traditional payment industry players tackling restaurants’ problems, but one newcomer is gaining traction in the niche by making the consumer its primary focus.

Experts from across the payments industry gathered in Los Angeles for SourceMedia's annual Card Forum and Expo. Here are some of the biggest ideas discussed at this year's event.

The technology behind the snazzy new “bots” Facebook is rolling out for its Messenger chat app has enormous potential to internalize payments within social media experiences like shopping, travel and entertainment in new, more relevant ways.

Biometric authentication is coming to numerous e-commerce merchants who may not realize that it will be a part of their checkout process, depending on the issuers involved.

Financial services and payments technology provider Affirm says it has raised $100 million in a round of equity funding.

Card firm MBNA has joined the first wave of issuers to offer Samsung Pay when it launches in the United Kingdom.

Ingenico Group has acquired a startup company that will help the French terminal manufacturer advance "screen commerce" by connecting devices to display screens for payment, marketing or loyalty programs.

"Omnichannel" isn't just a buzzword to describe marketing and payments in different formats—it also applies to corporate dealmaking as merchant acquirers catch M&A fever.

Nowait is adding payments to an app that manages customer wait lists at restaurants that don’t take reservations.

Many consumers still prefer to use cash when they owe someone else money. And plenty owe the Internal Revenue Service money at this time of year.

A taxpayer's annual refund is a big prize that fraudsters are eager to steal. Many new risks are being introduced by new technology, but there are cross-industry efforts to combat these new schemes and make sure each refund gets to the proper household.