Mobile payments

The reports at first seem striking: India's abrupt recall of its larger cash notes has caused a dramatic uptake in mobile payments, likely spurred by staggering lines at bank branches and ATMs.

The U.S.’s long journey to EMV adoption will remain a major focus for the U.S. Payments Forum, but contactless and mobile payments technology will also start to get serious attention from a new industry working group.

Stats show young people like to use smartphones to take photos of themselves, a key element of Mitek's payments security strategy.

Payments technology plays a major role in web connected city projects globally.

On Dec. 7, Dwolla will drop its consumer-facing applications like its mobile app and Dwolla.com

Consumers visiting sites using WP Engine’s checkout technology will use Chrome to obtain payment and shipping details with a few taps.

Citi's bank-branded mobile wallet will have the head start of the institution's vast scale.

Vantiv has been building omnichannel capabilities for years, and this deal will give that a boost.

PayPal has added support for Apple Inc.’s Siri voice-command feature for person-to-person payments, following Apple's decision to open Siri to third-party developers.

Lots of banks offer P-to-P and bill pay, but Fiserv's research suggests institutions can make improvements in making consumers aware.

Designed for Japan's automotive industry in the 1990s, QR codes remain a common feature in the latest mobile wallets. They have pros and cons that banks need to carefully consider.

Security software-maker Gemalto NV Chief Executive Officer Philippe Vallee says sales growth will accelerate as soon as this quarter.

Nigeria is becoming a hotbed of mobile payments development, with the nation’s largest banks and wireless telecom companies launching a mobile payments platform this month.

Like Uber, Airbnb has become a popular partner for payment companies.

Consumers increasingly are embracing contactless payments for smaller, routine transactions, with average transaction size rising slightly.

An ACL client with hundreds of U.S. employees recently began requiring its workforce to use Uber for all business travel-related cab rides, after ACL revealed how Uber’s geolocation data could be correlated with the details of employees’ expense reports.

Long one of mobile payments' success stories, Starbucks reports major gains in both mobile ordering and payments.

Payments technology is showing up in places that were unimaginable just a few years ago. That creates new opportunities for merchants and banks, but also new opportunities for fraudsters.

Application programming interfaces have grown so quickly, they're no longer the future of payments. They're the present.

An increasing number of shoppers use a mix of digital and in-store to research, shop and pay. Retailers must accommodate all three to stay relevant, according to Revel.