Mobile payments

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has added Apple Pay and Masterpass to its mobile app offerings.

3D Secure — commonly implemented as a prompt for an extra password during an e-commerce checkout — was too clunky to appeal to consumers in its original form. But a nearing upgrade could turn 3D secure into a staple of e-commerce by tying it into mobile wallets.

Preventing fraud across multiple purchasing channels is the next major paradigm shift for bank card issuers and merchants.

The biggest surprise for many who awaited the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule for prepaid cards was discovering that its reach extends to some of the payments industry’s highest-profile tech firms, such as PayPal Inc.’s Venmo, Square Inc.’s Square Cash and Dwolla.

Kohl's department stores have joined the mobile wallet movement, offering customers the option to link their closed-loop Kohl's Charge cards to the company's mobile app to make mobile payments and redeem rewards.

The mobile wallet will initially be available to clients of Sberbank and Mastercard, according to an Oct. 4 news release from Sberbank, which did not indicate if or when it might extend that access to other credit card operators and financial institutions.

Google is placing more emphasis on hardware and voice-controlled assistance, and its payment technology is coming along for the ride. Here's a look at Google's history in mobile payments—what worked, and what got cut over time.

Restaurants are burdened by a basic payroll issue that might be easily solved by technology, and investors are taking notice.

A year after the U.S. EMV liability shift kicked the country's migration into high gear, there are still major hurdles to widespread adoption. The shift took effect Oct. 1, 2015, placing liability on the party unable to handle EMV security, but even this incentive wasn't enough to get everyone on board at the same time.

Samsung Pay has partnered with Quotient Technology to bring users an in-app coupon service and a function that lets them restore information when they sign in from a new device.

Generation Z, the generation following what is commonly referred to as the Millennials, has only just formed its identity, yet its older members are already preparing to enter the workforce and take part in modern commerce.

Citi will join Early Warning's clearXchange, giving the bank-operated digital transfer network a boost as it takes on apps like PayPal’s Venmo.

Walmart Stores Inc. is in advanced discussions to invest as much as $1 billion into India’s Flipkart Online Services Pvt, an alliance that could help the companies battle Amazon.com Inc. in e-commerce, according to a person familiar with the matter.

British cosmetics powerhouse The Body Shop this week will accept Alipay at three of its London stores, through a new integration by Germany-based Wirecard.

USAA is a famously fast adopter of new technology, but that also means it must constantly tune up past investments to meet customer demand.

For merchants still on the fence about whether to buy Square Inc.’s $49 contactless card reader, there’s a new enticement to consider: Square has sped up the time it takes to accept EMV cards by 1.5 seconds.

The prevailing accounts payable model simply can't handle the sharing economy (also called the "gig economy"), according to Dovi Frances, who's putting cash and influence behind that theory.

The U.S. shift to EMV-chip card security hasn't been smooth. Many companies saw the card networks' Oct. 1, 2015 fraud liability shift date as a starting point rather than a deadline, and even the companies that thought they would be unaffected by the EMV transition found themselves dealing with major headaches.

Walmart's new pact with JPMorgan Chase is anything but routine. From the perspective of Walmart, this deal hands it a long-desired holy grail: less expensive Visa transactions.

Mastercard's HomeSend joint venture is partnering with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia to provide more than 100 million Ethiopians the ability to send funds directly to any mobile number in the country.