Mobile payments

Corporate payments services company Bottomline Technologies has introduced a mobile solution that would allow U.K businesses to pay customers quickly and directly.

Carrier billing provider Bango has purchased BilltoMobile and its contracts from Danal Inc., making Bango a processor of carrier billing transactions across all major mobile networks in the U.S.

MasterCard is taking an obscure domestic mobile service global, with the hope of jump-starting innovations that would otherwise be locked to a specific region of the world.

Square's practice of using its merchant transaction data for risk analysis may seem innovative, but other other agile specialists—including Intuit—are finding ways to use new data streams to limit risk and deliver funds to borrowers.

Mobile wallets may not have eliminated cash and cards, but they are becoming almost unavoidable in many retail settings. However, there are still a few areas where mobile technology is slow to arrive.

Though many have tried and failed to get bitcoin into the mainstream, iPayYou CEO Gene Kavner is ready to take a page out of the playbook of Amazon.com, his former employer, to bring attention to his new bitcoin wallet.

Department store chain Kohl’s has stitched together two of the most frustrating elements of checking out: adding loyalty points at the same time the payment goes through.

Uber riders that prefer to pay with Google Wallet will have to switch to Android Pay on May 9, according to emails reportedly sent out to Google Wallet users.

Eager to appease EMV-weary stores, Sionic Mobile is finishing tests on a system that uses a three-digit code to execute payments via mobile devices.

The expansion of devices connected to the Internet of Things is raising security and privacy concerns, spurring the Smart Card Alliance (SCA) to take action.

It’s rare to see much fanfare around the launch of a mobile banking app these days. But for the U.S. Treasury Department, this milestone signals it’s nearing the end of its long quest to modernize the delivery of federal benefits—even for consumers locked out of traditional banking systems.

A partnership between carrier billing provider Boku and digital music service Spotify will allow consumers in Germany and Italy to subscribe to Spotify using their mobile phone numbers.

The world of payments is changing, and a lot of that change results from the dedication of innovative retailers. Whether partnering with payment companies or going it alone, these brands are putting fresh ideas into practice.

Loyalty marketing is considered a substantial lure for mobile payments, but the introduction of new channels also complicates the strategy, according to Kevin Wray, the chief commercial officer at Switchfly.

Visa launched its Visa Developer platform earlier this year to open up to third-party developers and bring more attention to digital commerce, a move that gives its second annual "Everywhere Initiative" even more meaning.

It's been a tough time to be a mobile point of sale company, but SumUp believes it's found the right formula to not only get through the shakeout but to thrive.

American Express is giving a limited number of Uber riders access to Beyoncé's Formation concert tour, in the latest example of a financial services company allying with the tech-savvy ridesharing service.

With the backdrop of a tough financial second quarter, Apple executives both sang the praises of Apple Pay's uptick in consumer use and admitted the company has to view the mobile payment service as a future money maker rather than a key contributor now.

The growth of in-app and social media payments may please consumers, but merchants are worried that these new forms of card-not-present payments will expose them to more fraud liability.

A troubling gap is growing between the promises being made around mobile payments to consumers and merchants, and what payments technology providers are actually delivering, according to PayPal’s Bill Ready.