Mobile payments

With increasing value propositions, use of Apple Pay for in-store purchases should continue to increase, writes Mohammad Khan, president and co-founder of Omnyway.

Zelle is working on ways to ensure that customers can safely pay small businesses as well.

With more than double the amount of transactions of PayPal's Venmo service, credit union analysts expect usage of the P2P payments service to continue to rise.

Each of these wallets has developed its own personality — and, presumably, its own must-have feature to pull consumers and merchants away from the competition.

Sydney-based fintech Inamo has found demand for wearable payments in Australia and is on track to launch a pilot in the U.S., where uptake of wearable payments has been slow.

After a slow start, order-ahead payment services will begin to achieve more widespread adoption in U.K. corporate catering, encouraging the transition to the high street in the near future.

Consumers' growing dependence on smartphones makes it all the more crucial to be prepared to do business where your members are.

The fleet card industry is deep in the throes of change, with many truck drivers still switching from clunky paper-based payments to mobile technology with streamlined, data-laden payment apps. The next big challenge is the rise of electric vehicles, followed eventually by self-driving cars and trucks.

While mass transit has long been seen as a potential catalyst for changing payment habits, it's apps such as Uber, Grab and Lyft that are making the biggest difference in how people pay for transportation.

For their own sake, GrubHub and Uber should have purchased Caviar when Square reportedly offered it to them for sale in 2016. Instead, they now have a competitor who’s looking to eat their lunch in the restaurant delivery business.