Payments

Strengthening its reputation as an innovator of mobile payment technology, Barclaycard says it will be the first financial services provider in the U.K. to launch a contactless payment app through Near Field Communication-enabled Android phones.

Royal Bank of Canada's marching ahead on two innovations designed to help it blanket the country's mature point of sale and connected devices.

Alliance Data Systems has agreed to work with Toyota on a new line of private-label credit cards and to manage the Japanese automaker's existing co-branded card program.

Credit unions and banks get green light to sue retail giant over massive 2013 data breach.

As the Merchant Customer Exchange's CurrentC mobile wallet goes to trial in Columbus, Ohio—along with a limited test in Target stores nationally—the industry gets it first peek at the venture's priorities.

The age of the standalone wallet app, though still in its infancy, may already be making way for a new mobile payment regime.

Worldpay and Zuora have partnered to introduce a product that streamlines the payments aspect of online, subscription-based video, software and other content.

Twitter Inc., which helped rewrite political discourse, is now venturing into the world of campaign finance, introducing a way for candidates to solicit donations through social media posts.

Apple Pay, Google Wallet and other platforms have the potential to change consumers' payments habits. If retail payment networks want to keep their brands visible, they might need to consider giving these platforms a slice of the interchange pie.

Visa has created a prototype of a car designed to initiate payments, the first step in a five-year plan of changing the way motorists pay for gas and other needs while in transit.

Mobile wallet providers are trying lots of strategies to widen the audience for mobile payments, including increasing transaction size and, in suretap's case, adding support for prepaid cards to attract younger consumers.

Stripe Inc., the online-payments processor, unveiled a tool to simplify mobile e-commerce for stores and software applications developers.

The rest of the credit card industry continues to be dogged by slow loan growth, but retail-branded cards are bouncing back, thanks largely to a big push by merchants.

Lloyds Banking Group has joined the list of U.K. banking companies that support Apple Pay.

Mobile payment and commerce technology provider Mozido has established a cross-border e-commerce payment connection between China and Russia, a project that resulted from its purchase of Beijing-based PayEase Corp. earlier this year.

The rest of the credit card industry continues to be dogged by slow loan growth, but retail-branded cards are bouncing back, thanks largely to a big push by merchants.

Apple's latest iPhone could change the way people pay with a smartphone. Its updates improve Apple Pay and bring new tools to developers and merchants.

Android Pay is in the market, and it joins a mix of mobile pay ventures such as Apple Pay and the pending Samsung Pay that will drive a revolution in how people engage retail and execute transactions.

The New York taxi system has formally launched a mobile app that allows riders to hail and pay for rides.

Most users don't understand how either tokenization or blockchain works to protect their payments, but a combination of regulatory concerns and a recent Bitcoin-related scandal in the credit union industry is keeping tokenization on top, at least for now.