Mobile payments

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.

Businesses may need to rethink their approaches to identity verification for millennial consumers.

Businesses and consumers using Ingo Money will be able to pay credit card bills through U.S. MoneyGram locations.

Tablet-based point of sale terminals may look sleek and modern, but under the hood they must wrestle with many of the same challenges that older hardware faces.

By any account, cash still reigns in Latin America. The World Bank estimates that just one in five in the region has a credit card, and most residents still lack access to a financial institution.

Mobile transactions are getting faster and more efficient. As smartphones become more ubiquitous, more consumers are ready to pull out their phones to make a payment—and expect the option to do so.

Big-box retailers aren’t the only ones being forced to change the way they do business as giants like Amazon reshape the way consumers shop and consume services—small businesses also get caught in the storm.

SVB Financial and Mastercard have accepted six startups for the fifth installment of their accelerator, Commerce.Innovated.

Mobile payments are catching on in Europe at a fast clip, as the number of consumers regularly using a mobile device for payments has tripled since 2015, according to new Visa research.

When retailers first started developing mobile wallet apps, they did so to fight back against Apple Pay and the banks. Today, they are working against a bigger threat: Amazon.com.

As consumers get more comfortable opting into location-based mobile services, U.S. Bank has begun asking them to let it see where they're going so the bank can fine-tune its fraud management.