Mobile payments

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.

When Android Pay launched, Google Wallet became a P-to-P service. That market's getting popular, and Google is responding with a web upgrade.

Linked2pay is expanding a text-based, person-to-person payment service to allow banks to offer it for card and Automated Clearing House payments.

The race to dominate person-to-person transfers has been a curious one so far, because P-to-P typically isn’t a money-maker for banks or even for PayPal, whose Venmo unit is generating red-hot growth this year in the category.

Business-led mobile payment apps can build deeper relationships with consumers, and right now that beats the third party mobile wallets.

South Korea’s LG last year rolled out LG Pay, a mobile wallet that took an indirect approach to contactless payments by leveraging Bluetooth technology to link to a proprietary “white” card that stored a user’s payment cards. The concept never took off, and a new report suggests LG is making another run at mobile payments, using different technology.

Samsung Pay is steadily spreading across the globe and adding new features, but it's also facing some strong challenges in these markets. Here are a few of the biggest issues Samsung's mobile wallet has faced since launch.

Prepaid cards and new mobile innovation in prepaid can bring speed and improve user experience for many different payment types and other financial services.

As cars' onboard computers get smarter, payments are coming along for the ride—but always taking a back seat to other features.

Walmart and Dunkin' Donuts have poured millions of dollars into their proprietary mobile payment apps, and their most interesting lessons are the ones they didn't expect to learn.