Mobile payments

Letting employees decide when they get paid through a mobile app that connects to an institution's prepaid card can serve the same purpose as a payday loan but cost the consumer less.

Startups and banks have watched for years as young consumers shifted from credit cards to debit cards to, finally, P-to-P apps. But what's driving that shift may not be what the providers intended.

Amazon has introduced an augmented reality tool, giving customers an easy way to see how an item would look placed on any particular surface using a smartphone camera.

Letting employees decide when they get paid through a mobile app that connects to a bank's prepaid card can serve the same purpose as a payday loan but cost the consumer less.

Big banks have raised deposit rates faster than regionals in order to retain depositors; India’s largest payment app wants to expand.

The bank-powered P-to-P app Zelle officially launched in June with a mostly consistent brand across all of its bank partners, but it still struggles with awareness over PayPal's Venmo, which doesn't share its advantage of living inside banks' mobile apps.

Since e-commerce and digital payments' inception, the state of the retail industry has been fluid, always facing new challenges and battles, writes Erik Morton, vice president of strategy and corporate development at CommerceHub.

The gig economy is one of the most demanding business sectors in terms of technology, speed and security. All of these factors play into how these companies handle payments.

With the mantra of “attracting millennials” still pervasive in the payments industry, it is worth noting that there is a significant and growing opportunity for an even younger generation — Generation Z.

If you’re an omnichannel merchant, it’s critical to analyze fraud separately across your brick and mortar, online and mobile channels, in order to focus your information security resources where they are most needed, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer for InAuth.