Mobile payments

Amazon is constantly unleashing new payment-related products and services. Some efforts succeed, some fail and the rest are a mixed bag — but regardless of the outcome, retailers have a golden opportunity to learn from Amazon's experimentation.

Barclaycard's first range of wearable bPay devices never looked like they had a home on the fashion runway, but the issuer is betting the fashion brand TopShop can make it in vogue.

Apple is reportedly going to its bank partners with a pitch to tie in their scale to jump-start an Apple-branded person-to-person payment system.

MasterCard is integrating software developer Cardtek’s HCEXpert solution to enable Near Field Communication-based mobile payments for customers of MasterCard Payment Transaction Services, a unit of MasterCard.

The term "mobile wallet wars" has been part of financial services lingo for several years, with banks, merchants and software companies fighting for control of digital payments. But the real battle is taking place in an entirely different arena.

Credit unions and community banks are preparing to adopt Android Pay and Samsung Pay, while reporting more consumer use of Apple Pay since its launch last year.

Square Inc., the payments startup led by Jack Dorsey, released a 38-minute marketing video in advance of its planned initial public offering.

China's largest telecom technology testing laboratory plans to use a Fime tool to strengthen the country's mobile security.

Given the number of mobile payment companies targeting small business, there's lots of slicing and dicing of the market in the name of differentiation.

A Swiss joint venture plans to release SwissWallet for online shopping this month, partnering with MasterCard for use of its digital wallet, MasterPass.