Mobile payments

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.

Karhoo, a U.K. price comparison and hailing app for licensed taxis and minicabs, is preparing to launch in the U.S. with the help of Bank of America Merchant Services eCommerce and cybersecurity solutions.

The China-based payments company has long sought to enter the U.S. market.

At this week's Money2020 conference, payment execs like PayPal's Bill Ready say consumers will make purchases in a broad context of shopping, and if merchants aren’t poised to meet their audiences there, they will get left behind, Ready said.

In his last earnings call as Visa's CEO, Charles Scharf spoke about the card brand's outlook for new technology and China.

Visa and Mastercard are teaming up with wallet providers and technology companies to accelerate payments innovation.

The two companies hope to reduce paper checks and speed processing by removing navigation for claims processing.

Blockchain and the 'Internet of Things' are enabling a lot of new payments innovation. In Canada, they're part of a huge project that could radically change ID security for more than just payments.

Bluetooth beacons — small transmitters that retailers can use to broadcast offers to shoppers' mobile phones — have always lived at the periphery of the payments world. But that may be changing very soon.

Stores are realizing that they don't want to duplicate Starbucks' success.

The EMV and mobile wallet movements have split the retail industry, leaving payment companies in the delicate position of having to support clients with very different technological profiles.