Mobile payments

The World Wide Web Consortium pushed for an answer two years ago to the mounting problem of mobile and online payment fraud in its release of the Payment Request API, designed to secure the exchange of payment requests and verifications on browsers.

What Google ultimately does with its Google Checking service for banks will have a major effect on how mobile payments at all levels — from point of sale, to e-commerce, P2P and bill pay — will move forward.

Cubic Corp is trying to boost transit ridership by allowing rewards earned via mobile payment usage to offset the cost of fares.

PayPal reported strong growth in revenues, earnings, payments volume and users, demonstrating as the company has finally transitioned away from the vestiges of its former eBay ownership.

While touting iPhone 11 as a big hit with consumers because of its various features and high-quality camera, Apple CEO Tim Cook also pointed to Apple Card as a reason the company's newest smartphone sold so well during the holidays.

Starbucks has invested heavily in building its business and payment technology in China, so the coronavirus weighs on an otherwise strong strong earnings performance.

Costs to maintain ticketing systems are jumping for metro systems, but there's still a lack of standardized open-loop options, says Fime's Alex Chen and Angaj Bhadari.

Seeking a way to boost Spain's fintech sector, CaixaBank is partnering with global startup Plug and Play to promote collaboration for new banking, payments and insurance services.

As an early adopter of e-commerce in the 1990s, 1-800-Flowers.com is pushing the envelope again with 3-D and augmented reality technologies to sell floral arrangements with new payment options, including Venmo.

Rellevate, a startup founded by former Western Union executive Stewart Stockdale, is forming a digital bank designed for people who make $10 to $25 per hour and live paycheck to paycheck.

For banks and other financial institutions to survive and thrive in the age of mobile payments and e-commerce, they need to continue to enhance their mobile apps with more innovations, tighter security features and more time-saving capabilities.

New designs and easier authentication can boost adoption, says Fingerprints' Thomas Rex

For banks and other financial institutions to survive and thrive in the age of mobile payments and e-commerce, they need to continue to enhance their mobile apps with more innovations, tighter security features, and more time-saving capabilities, says Informa Financial Intelligence's Gina DeCorla.

The city would join San Francisco and Philadelphia among cities that prohibit stores and restaurants from only accepting electronic payments.

Even in mature markets, consumers may not feel very connected to their payment cards. This is making issuers more reliant on selling data-driven experiences over simple transaction processing.

The future of brick and mortar retail is somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Buried beneath a virtual sea in a place once called Xanadu is an underwater version of New York, a nautical Times Square where marquees scream “Piranha of the Opera,” and “Krill Grill.”

By experimenting with palm-print hand wave transactions, Amazon is putting its resources behind another work-in-progress technology that traditional retailers will almost certainly have to invest in just to keep pace.

French mobile payments app Lydia has raised €40 million (about $45 million) in a Series B fundraising round led by Tencent Holdings, owner of WeChat Pay.

Having grown up with smartphones in hand, these digital natives crave high speed and instant results, says Wirecard's Susanne Steidl.

Fearful of being the last one standing, banks and credit unions of all sizes will become more aggressive about real-time payments — or risk getting left in the past.