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Visa is providing payments support for contactless vending machines dispensing high-fashion accessories at an event during New York's Fashion Week.

Ingenico Group has agreed to collaborate with Toshiba to expand payment types at the point of sale in grocery, pharmacy and other multi-lane environments.

The U.S. may be next to see a surge of contactless credit cards, following other major markets around the world. But it’s unclear whether enough U.S. consumers are interested in contactless payments for issuers to make the investment.

Two years after Citi launched more than 7 million contactless-enabled Costco credit cards in the U.S., Costco has finally enabled tap and pay at its U.S. stores.

Airborne drone delivery is becoming e-commerce's version of self-driving cars: A promising but troubled technology that's nonetheless creating opportunities to change the way people make payments.

China UnionPay has qualified FIME’s personalization validation tool (PVT), marking the Chinese payment brand’s first certification of an overseas lab for testing its secure chip products.

As contactless cards continue their momentum in the U.K., new use cases are popping up for the tap-and-go technology.

Visa has put its marketing and advertising featuring actor Morgan Freeman on hold following allegations of inappropriate behavior.

This month, Vancouver became the first Canadian city to commercially roll out open transit payments. But the city of Laval actually got a head start on Vancouver with a pilot project that is getting a positive reaction from riders.

Despite Canada's high penetration of contactless POS terminals and consumer affinity for the technology, the country has lagged behind nations such as the U.K. and Singapore in contactless payments. That is set to change as Canada's transit schemes launch contactless open-payment systems.