Mobile payments

Unattended gas pumps would seem to be the perfect use case for EMV's anti-counterfeiting security, but many gas station owners are putting off their upgrades for as long as possible due to hardships that other retail categories don't face.

Mastercard is setting up a temporary store with internet-connected windows and mirrors enabling consumers to explore and pay for fashion items with their smartphones.

Apple's Face ID is turning heads, but it is far from the first use of facial biometrics in payments. Here are several implementations that predate it.

For retailers, WeChat’s hyperactive and massive user base is a goldmine, but mini-apps don't solve the most prominent demand of retailers: to acquire and retain new traffic, writes Franklin Chu, managing director of Azoya International.

The gig or sharing economy has transformed and disrupted the global workforce. It has redefined what we should expect from our payments, writes Ralph Perdomo, a research analyst and writer at Nvoicepay.

It's not just Equifax that needs to worry. The incident can and should be a turning point for the financial services industry, a warning that it needs to end its reliance on static personal identifiers.

Apple's next iPhone could add — and lose — features that change the way people handle mobile payments. Here is the latest roundup of rumors and predictions.

The person-to-person payment service, the big banks’ answer to Venmo, is scheduled to launch a stand-alone app next week.

It's only a matter of time before U.S. banks are forced to cede control over payments, says Brett King in this week's episode.

Onosys enables ordering ahead at Outback Steakhouse, Round Table Pizza, Boston Pizza, and others.

The directory has ways to get deeper information or contacts on Mastercard’s tokenization engine MDES, Masterpass, Mastercard Send, Qkr and mPOS providers.

Despite significant efforts by stakeholders to move the needle on mobile payments, the category simply isn't taking off.

The internet wasn't built to accommodate identity, which challenges initiatives to balance security with user efficiency.

When retailers run tests in which coupon offers are delivered directly to the Apple Pay or Android Pay mobile wallet, rather than as a simple text notification, the redemption potential skyrockets 300%.

Between Brexit, Dodd-Frank uncertainty and the mobile revolution, issuers and financial services companies must combine past performance data and forward-looking information to gain insight, writes Henri Wajsblat, director and head of financial services at Anaplan.

LevelUp is working with LuvJo, a New York-based firm that specializes in online ordering technology for small restaurants, to support order-ahead capabilities for thousands of coffee shops, juice bars and food trucks across the U.S.

A situation brewing in movie theaters that hinges on card network rules could have broad implications for the entertainment industry.

Consumers who either are tiring of the password overload, or those who understand that passwords are antiquated security, are driving the fair amount of biometric adoption, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

Financial institutions need to take notice of this phenomenon and ramp up their payments infrastructure to support these developments, writes Chet Kamat, senior vice president of Oracle Financial Services.

Uber India this week announced its integration with Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the mobile payments technology developed by the government-sanctioned National Payments Corporation of India and two local banks, expanding mobile payments access to Uber riders and drivers.