Payment cards

There are lots of new technology driven payment startups, though most still at least partly rely on the traditional card/bank model.

Thousands of U.S. merchants are still holding out against EMV because they see no immediate threat from counterfeit card fraud, and business goes on. But a less obvious change in payment card acceptance may finally force them to upgrade.

Shoppers are going to have to choose which apps to keep and which to delete or hide, making it important that retailers develop an app that's worthy of repeated use.

President Donald Trump's plans to deregulate the financial services industry still lack detail, though Mastercard is betting on a more favorable legal environment in the future.

Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga was among the financial services, payment and technology executives to express worry or opposition to President Trump's travel ban for certain Middle Eastern countries.

Achieving the coveted “top of wallet” status is tough for banks, not least because their own credit and debit cards often compete with one another for priority status with the same customers.

Achieving the coveted “top of wallet” status is tough for banks, not least because their own credit and debit cards often compete with one another for priority status with the same customers.

Over the past five years, the slow-but-steady rise of mobile wallets seemed to signal the end of the plastic card era. But that's not how things played out.

The potential user base is huge. Tencent Holdings has 846 million global monthly active-user WeChat accounts, and more than 300 million have linked bank cards.

Biometrics has long had an interoperability gap. Visa is trying to address that with a new project that brings flexibility to biometric options.