Mobile technology

Banks should experiment with Snapchat and learn to deliver content in small doses even if the platform proves to be a bad fit for the industry in the long run.

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Chatbots, virtual assistants and the like may mean fewer direct interactions between banks and consumers, fintech leaders say. But branches will become self-service destinations.

Eastman CU in Kingsport, Tenn. Shares the lessons it has learned about mobile banking after being ranked as 2016’s No. 1 mobile app for financial institutions in a major national survey.

The Internet of Things may be ripe for development, but the process of adding secure payments to Internet-connected products is an evolving concept.

Royal Bank of Canada is providing a virtual reality "try before you buy" experience for its RBC Rewards customers.

The tech firm behind USAA's digital assistant has introduced an authentication tool that identifies customers by the sound of their voice or by their facial features.

Amazon.com has set the standard for e-commerce with fast delivery, invisible payments and many other perks that keep consumers coming back to its site. Increasingly, the e-tailer has been experimenting with ways to streamline the payment process outside of the trappings of its website.

Mobile app photo IDs have had mixed success, but Credntia's betting an overall spike in mobile technology will lead to robust use of its app.

The company hopes to build off of its successful mobile app by adding new ordering technology. A massive international expansion of its store footprint is also in the works.

A Johannesburg startup is set to become the first company ever to manufacture smartphones in Africa, taking advantage of low costs and growing local demand to build handsets, tablets and other devices based on Google Inc.’s Android system.

Gen Z is coming fast on the heels of millennials. For e-commerce, payments and financial services, they have an even shorter attention span.

Israeli mobile technology company On Track Innovations (OTI) hopes to cash in on the trend toward fashion-direct payments by embedding transaction functions inside a ring.

U.S. fuel cards were a relatively complacent niche until a few years ago, when a wave of consolidations and digital innovations transformed the $66 billion-plus industry into a hotbed of competition.

Big banks are still levying overdraft charges. New technology startups can stem the tide and help digitally-savvy millennials manage payments and their budgets.

Google's Android Wear products came to market well ahead of the Apple Watch, but in one category they have always been a step behind: contactless payments.

Barclays is responding to consumer expectations of a smooth mobile experience in all venues by adding technology at ATMs.

Forget about municipal governments. Through transactions such as payments, banks have a trove of data that can be used to revolutionize how cities work.

Mastercard will launch its “selfie pay” system in the Asia-Pacific region next year, expanding the global reach of its biometric identity-verification service for online payments to more markets as part of a gradual worldwide rollout.

OfferUp, a secondhand mobile marketplace, closed its latest funding round $11 million higher than previously reported and added PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an investor.