Mobile payments

To promote Android Pay, Google dangled up to $25 in gift cards to boost enrollment. Now the web search giant is offering a different set of rewards to spur repeat usage of the mobile payments service.

Ingenico Group has unveiled a new brand, Ingenico ePayments, as the latest step for the payment terminal maker in its evolution to becoming a provider of diversified global payment services.

First Data has unveiled Clover Go, a new EMV-enabled card reader for mobile devices and the latest device in its Clover mobile point of sale product line.

The Barclaycard app now will allow Near Field Communication-enabled contactless payments on supported Android devices.

Apple Pay's international expansion has been slow enough that other mobile wallet providers are working to get out in front in markets such as Latin America.

A year ago, a few trends were already clear to us, but many were just taking shape. Here's what we told you to expect from 2015, and how each of these predictions played out.

Cash remains the payment method of choice for nearly four out of five consumers needing to pay someone back, including the notoriously tech-savvy millennials.

Sometimes a big crash throttles the peloton and gives a few riders a chance to breakaway. In 2016, that is what we will see in the world of mobile payments. As EMV and Loyalty 1.0 eat the pavement, they will enable mobile payments, Loyalty 2.0 and new Uber-style apps to separate from the pack.

Apple Pay made a big splash when it arrived in late 2014, but has made few ripples since then, as consumers stuck to their old payment habits and banks in international markets proved reluctant to provide their support.

Through a partnership with Intel, terminal maker Ingenico Group has developed a contactless payment technology that is being used in a Panasonic tablet.

The majority of consumers, or about 70%, still rely exclusively on banks for their financial services, but that figure will likely slip below 60% within the next five years as technology companies chip away at banks' grip on financial services, a new survey from TransferWise, a London-based money-transfer company, predicts.

PayPal Holdings has named the head of a cryptocurrency firm to its board.

A startup geared toward the prepaid market thinks it has found a way to effectively bridge the gap between high-touch onboarding and all digital experience: operating like a food truck.

The banking and fintech industry is experiencing fundamental change driven by not only new and evolving regulatory guidelines, but also by the changing needs and expectations of consumers – largely attributed to organizations like Netflix and Amazon.

Walmart plans to support Visa Checkout despite a rocky relationship between the two giant companies whose recent disputes have often involved legal action.

Thanks to Spiral Toys, now even your children's piggy bank has gone mobile.

Payment cards aren't dead, but they are buried under a growing pile of new and high-tech payment devices.

The explosion of mobile over the last few years has been staggering. By next year, the twenty billionth mobile phone will be sold. And not only are there many more mobile devices, we’re all becoming more reliant on them. In fact, 9 out of 10 consumers in the U.S. keep their phones within reach 24/7.

Though Apple Pay is advertised primarily as a high-tech way to make payments in stores, the Apple wallet's in-app purchase volume is a significant key to its growth.

Apple Pay is seeing a surge in U.S. bank support, with the number of participating banks rising past 900 with the recent addition of 60 regional and community banks, bringing it closer to full coverage in its home market. But Apple isn't having the same luck everywhere else.