Mobile payments

Turning a pre-existing digital payment network into an in-store line buster has been a key play for Starbucks and Square, and Amazon is weighing in with its own app that allows its huge network of users to streamline retail experiences.

Mass transit systems have been proven as an effective way of introducing new technologies and driving adoption in many regions, but in many ways they are still vastly behind schedule.

The white-label banking platform provider Urban FT has purchased the mobile banking technology firm iParse and several of its patents.

The feature instructs consumers to follow an object on the screen with their eyes, in a randomized pattern Jumio said will be nearly impossible for fraudsters to fake.

As retailers scratch their heads to find ways to counter Amazon's ongoing disruption of their industry, investment is flowing to technology companies that meld shopping, payments and fulfillment.

The concept of digital payments doesn't often cross paths with the concept of robots moving autonomously through our world. But in a few cases, robots have been created to handle payments and deliver goods.

As the number of apps for banking and payments increases, so does the reliability risk.

Removing restrictions on companies such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon could have clear repercussions for the payments industry.

Millennials -- a demographic credit unions badly want to capture -- are using P-to-P services to pay for drugs and gambling, and while CUs may not want their members paying for illegal activities with account-connected services, a growing number of institutions also want to be the FI of choice for legal drug businesses.

Visa’s core mission is to crush cash, but its latest promotion rewarding businesses with a pile of money if they stop accepting cash altogether may be too little for this goal.