Payments

America First Credit Union of Riverdale, Utah, is launching both Android Pay and Samsung Pay, the two most prominent mobile wallet options for Android smartphones.

The U.S. migration to EMV chip cards garnered most of the spotlight in 2015, but the October liability shift was just the start.

Apple Pay and Samsung Pay are coming to China in early 2016, in a potential defensive move by China UnionPay to fend off competition from domestic mobile payment rivals on the rise in China, including Alipay and Tencent.

Fresh off the announcement of Walmart Pay, fellow retail chain and Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) member Target is planning its own mobile payment system, according to CNBC.

The age of Google Glass may be over, but 2015 saw wearable technology emerge in more subtle forms such as watches, rings and other items that appear more trendy than geeky. The payments industry is working to make the most of this fashionable trend.

Uber's ride sharing app is generally considered less of a threat to payment processors than to the Taxi and Limousine Commission, but the ease of Uber's payment process may prompt consumers to grow frustrated with any process that forces them through a traditional checkout page.

Wirecard has made its boon mobile wallet available in Spain and Ireland.

Uber has long taught that the best way to get consumers to pay with a mobile device is to make the payment almost invisible. Now, with the help of Facebook and Braintree, Uber is applying that philosophy to the rest of its business — and if Facebook has its way, other companies will again follow Uber's example.

Merchants using Mangopay to sell through online marketplaces will have an option to set up and accept recurring payments through GoCardless' direct debit network.

Banks give toasters to new customers, but what can tech companies give? The companies behind Android Pay and Samsung Pay hope to entice users with as much as $25 in gift cards (which, yes, can still be used to buy toasters).

Banks are positioned well to be the trusted digital intermediaries, especially in the business-to-business segment, but only if they stay ahead of the innovation curve.

Crowdfunding platform provider Veterans Call has launched a payment application that allows users to donate to veteran charities from their mobile phones and pay through their phone bill.

Following its promise to make mobile point of sale products a key revenue-driver for the company, Verifone Payment Systems released a new mobile card reader for independent and micro merchants.

Google Wallet was seemingly sidelined this year when Android Pay replaced it as Google’s flagship mobile payments app, but a recent update to the Wallet app shows that Google still sees potential in the aging brand.

Google's mobile wallet, Android Pay, can now be used for in-app purchases on Android devices.

Dave Seleski founded Stonegate in 2005 and the decade since has built it into one of Florida's best-performing banks through a combination of prudent lending and opportunistic buying. Now he's got his sights set on Cuba and playing a key role in bringing that country's economy into the 21st century.

UnionPay has partnered with more than 20 commercial banks to launch its QuickPass mobile wallet service in Beijing.

It can often seem that some of the biggest names in payments were established a long time ago in a galaxy far away, and today are constantly defending their empires from scrappy startups launched by digital natives.

A lot happened in 2015 to advance digital security, but a lot also happened to challenge the status quo and force merchants and financial institutions to rethink their strategies. Here are some of the key changes that took place in the past year.

Visa has begun rolling out the Visa Token Service in the Asia Pacific region, starting with United Overseas Bank in Singapore.