Mobile payments

Visa and Mastercard are teaming up with wallet providers and technology companies to accelerate payments innovation.

The two companies hope to reduce paper checks and speed processing by removing navigation for claims processing.

Blockchain and the 'Internet of Things' are enabling a lot of new payments innovation. In Canada, they're part of a huge project that could radically change ID security for more than just payments.

Bluetooth beacons — small transmitters that retailers can use to broadcast offers to shoppers' mobile phones — have always lived at the periphery of the payments world. But that may be changing very soon.

Stores are realizing that they don't want to duplicate Starbucks' success.

The EMV and mobile wallet movements have split the retail industry, leaving payment companies in the delicate position of having to support clients with very different technological profiles.

Businesses may need to rethink their approaches to identity verification for millennial consumers.

Businesses and consumers using Ingo Money will be able to pay credit card bills through U.S. MoneyGram locations.

Tablet-based point of sale terminals may look sleek and modern, but under the hood they must wrestle with many of the same challenges that older hardware faces.

By any account, cash still reigns in Latin America. The World Bank estimates that just one in five in the region has a credit card, and most residents still lack access to a financial institution.