Mobile payments

Mobile wallet providers are trying lots of strategies to widen the audience for mobile payments, including increasing transaction size and, in suretap's case, adding support for prepaid cards to attract younger consumers.

Stripe Inc., the online-payments processor, unveiled a tool to simplify mobile e-commerce for stores and software applications developers.

Lloyds Banking Group has joined the list of U.K. banking companies that support Apple Pay.

Apple's latest iPhone could change the way people pay with a smartphone. Its updates improve Apple Pay and bring new tools to developers and merchants.

Android Pay is in the market, and it joins a mix of mobile pay ventures such as Apple Pay and the pending Samsung Pay that will drive a revolution in how people engage retail and execute transactions.

The New York taxi system has formally launched a mobile app that allows riders to hail and pay for rides.

Kash Corp. is prepared to move into the money transfer world, launching an application programming interface (API) that will allow companies of all sizes to accept direct debit payments without credit card fees.

Elizabeth Buse plans to step down as Monitise's CEO less than two years after assuming the top role at the slumping mobile technology company.

With the mobile payments landscape rapidly evolving, banks face a vexing challenge: what should their go-forward strategy be?

MasterCard Europe is making a major push to increase mobile payments acceptance points and encourage higher value transactions, considered a “tipping point” in the market’s maturation.

Samsung is trying to take wearables beyond watches and bands into something closer to traditional fashion, including a full suit, a purse, a bag and a line of shirts—all equipped digitally.

Android Pay is Google's third attempt at a digital wallet, following Google Wallet and Google Checkout. How much has the technology giant learned from its past experiences?

CHICAGO — Mobile payments got the kind of promotional kick it will need in the future — from a veteran country music star — at the annual Mobile Payments Conference this week.

CHICAGO — The mobile commerce revolution is pressuring legacy payment companies to quickly diversify to stay relevant, leading Discover Financial Services to build a gateway where merchants can add digital transactions and other services.

CHICAGO — Financial institutions have fallen behind the payments innovation curve, though they can catch up quickly by adopting the faster payments initiatives that are accompanying mobile and digital transactions.

What happens when you combine mobile wallets with the emerging hype about beacons? You get a winning combination for retailers that boosts shopper loyalty and in-store spending.

Barclays is attempting a diverse range of tactics to move customers beyond plastic cards, with its latest attempt being a "fashionable" jacket that's linked to the wearer's bank account.

CHICAGO — First-generation mobile wallets found themselves in an "unfair fight" against the likes of Starbucks and its branded mobile pay and loyalty system, forcing Google to rethink how it would position Android Pay, Google executive Jack Connors said.

Competition among e-commerce payment gateway providers in Australia has heated up, as key companies have had more than a year to get footing in a country increasingly adapting to new payments technology.

Swedish payments startup iZettle AB has raised 60 million euros ($67 million) to expand in Europe and fund a plan to offer merchants cash advances on future card sales.