Online payments

E-Commerce startup CaribShopper is fresh off winning an exclusive partnership with eBay to cover its expanding Caribbean footprint as it tackles a market that has a lot of promise, but also challenges in processing digital payments.

Mobile person-to-person payments didn't attract a following until companies like Venmo borrowed ideas from social networking when designing their apps. The same concept may also work for businesses, which need to manage the relationships they have with the clients who owe them money.

Like a lot of alternative payment startups, the light bulb for Marci Lobel-Esrig came from a personal experience that demonstrated how clunky and risky paper-based transactions can be.

Apple Inc. is preparing the first significant overhaul of its MacBook Pro laptop line in over four years, according to people familiar with the matter, using one of its older products to help reverse two quarters of sliding sales.

Beijing-based payment processor PayEase is partnering with KG Inicis, a South Korean payment provider on electronic payments in their respective markets.

Visa and Mastercard are making a lot of noise for initiatives that adapt their existing technology for faster payments in the U.S., but the alternative payment provider Dwolla is moving just as aggressively.

There may be bumps along the way, but PayPal, Mastercard and Visa all share the same goal, according to Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga.

Apple plans to enable Apple Pay on its Safari Web browser by this fall, enabling users to make purchases directly from websites, but its vision for taking Apple Pay to the Web does not seem to extend much further.

International payment services provider Planet Payment and South Africa’s Absa Bank are expanding availability of Planet Payment’s Multi-Currency Pricing Solution through a new partnership with Xpressa, a Johannesburg-based company offering online and point of sale payment solutions.

To hear PayPal CEO Dan Schulman tell it, his company's agreement with Visa this week is a transformative and history-making deal. But in at least one way, PayPal must make sure that history does not repeat itself.

PayPal Holdings Inc. shares dropped the most in four months on concern about the cost implications of a new agreement between the digital payments company and Visa Inc.

Visa and PayPal have been at war for as long as PayPal has existed, and their recent cease fire could allow both companies to overcome the barriers they have spent years building between the worlds of digital and in-store payments.

Mastercard is betting its $920 million investment in the U.K.'s VocaLink gives it a significant edge in many emerging technologies, particularly in regions where it is lagging Visa in traditional card-based business lines.

PayPal Holdings Inc. and Visa Inc. may unveil an agreement regarding data sharing, security measures and consumer choices on accounts linked to PayPal transactions, analysts said ahead of the companies’ earnings reports.

It is no secret to e-commerce merchants that Amazon, one of the giants in its field, has succeeded in part because it can make fast decisions about whether a transaction is legit or has fraud written all over it. And these decisions have to look at more than just whether a shopper is using a stolen card.

Verifone Inc. still faces challenges in certain aspects of its business, but the terminal manufacturer is learning with experience how to fit into the fast-changing world of omnichannel technology.

Banco Popular North America in New York has launched a digital-banking platform.

The faster payments revolution has arrived for person-to-person payments, but it’s also disrupting business-to-business payments in a way that might render certain payment options obsolete.

Under the hood, the new Masterpass ties directly to banks' own digital wallets with support for Near Field Communication-based mobile payments via Android devices and the ability to centralize features for supported cards, including balance display and purchase alerts, and support for paying with loyalty points.

Companies have struggled for years to find a simple way to get consumers to set up a payment account without derailing the checkout process. One company is taking a step back and asking: Why delay a sale by demanding money?