Payments

Evidence points to thousands of arbitrations for individual claims in recent years, and there likely would have been more if not for negative publicity about arbitrations.

Black Friday will mark a new milestone this year, when mobile devices for the first time will account for about half of all online purchases during the first weekend of the holiday shopping frenzy, according to a new study.

There's no shortage of upstarts trying to cut cost, time and risk out of global money transfers. To maintain its position, Western Union is investing in the technologies it finds the most promising while keeping others at arm's length.

Banks and credit card companies could find themselves on the losing end if daily fantasy sports giants DraftKings and FanDuel are deemed to have been running illegal gambling operations in the state of New York.

Stonegate Bank in Pompano Beach, Fla., has begun offering a MasterCard debit card for use by U.S. citizens while traveling in Cuba.

Square is expanding its payroll offering to Florida.

Square Inc. raised about a third less than it sought in its initial public offering as investors balked at a higher valuation for the mobile-payments service.

The market for international e-commerce in China is growing much faster, and working much more smoothly, than attempts by Western companies to launch within the country.

Charles Cawley, who founded MBNA and built it into an affinity credit-card empire that was sold to Bank of America for $35 billion, has died. He was 75.

Apple Pay has gone Down Under, reaching its fourth country since its 2014 launch in the U.S.

Dunkin' Donuts, in a bid to catch up to the technology prowess of Starbucks Corp., is testing on-the-go ordering and delivery service in some U.S. markets.

The American Action Network's provocative television commercial introduced millions of Americans to one of the most powerful and unaccountable government agencies in Washington.

Despite many merchants' resistance to the EMV migration in the U.S., the chip-card technology can become more appetizing when it is baked into another item on the terminal maker's menu.

Mobile ticketing for mass transit has a rare quality in mobile payments — it addresses a pain point that consumers actually long to have solved.

A group of attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have jumped into the debate over PIN versus signature requirements for EMV cards, choosing the side of retailers.

Apple Pay has come to its third market, Canada, following a 2014 debut in the U.S. and a mid-2015 expansion to the U.K.

Icahn Associates Corp., the fund run by billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, sold its remaining eBay Inc. stake at the same time as it reported a 3.8 percent holding in the Internet auction company’s spun off payments unit PayPal Holdings Inc.

After years of supporting payments research and building a reputation of being friendly toward technology startups, American Express is bringing its key technologies under the Amex Enabled Digital Solutions umbrella.

A group of attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have jumped into the debate over PIN versus signature requirements for EMV cards, choosing the side of retailers.

First Data and NCR Corp. are flexing their scale muscles in an agreement that brings the technology strength of both companies to the grocery, petroleum and convenience store industries and expands NCR's ATM footprint.