Payments

U.K.-based grocer Sainsbury's is readying a contactless payment shopping app that allows consumers to pick out items before they even get to the store and confirm payment upon leaving through a "payment zone."

Wireless transactions provider Apriva and payment technology services company Global Payments have teamed up to release a white-label EMV mobile payment offering.

More than 212 million biometric authentication devices will be shipped over the next decade for use in financial services, according to recent Tractica market research.

More financial services companies are landing on MaRS, a corner of Toronto where developers are building new uses for smartphones, wearables and alternative currencies all under the same roof.

Visa's online payment service, Visa Checkout, has added 33 more merchants and won the support of new issuers in China and the United Arab Emirates.

What appears to be an internal employee notice at McDonald's may signal Android Pay's launch later this week, the blog Android Police reported over the weekend.

As part of the transition to EMV-chip cards in the U.S., some issuers are adding PIN security to cards that used to require only a signature. But as technology advances, the PIN may not provide as much security as consumers believe.

Stripe's quick disruption of the payment processing industry in the U.K. is measurable in at least one simple way — counting clicks.

As mobile wallets and other high-tech payment mechanisms proliferate, they bring with them more options for security. Companies are increasingly looking for ways to use devices' built-in cameras to urge consumers to take self-portraits for authentication.

The major U.S. telcos may have abandoned their mobile wallet ambitions when they sold off Softcard, but their power casts a shadow over efforts to build ubiquity across the market.

Heartland Payment Systems has certified Digital Dining and its iPad-based point of sale system for its EMV-ready security technologies.

As banks work to understand potential tech threats to their traditional business lines, Leader Bank in Massachusetts has built its own software to usurp one of its services — lockboxes used by landlords.

Discover Financial Services topped peers in a J.D. Power credit-card customer satisfaction ranking, ousting American Express from the No. 1 spot for the first time in the survey's nine years.

The Tel Aviv-based fraud prevention provider Forter insists that the legacy security model for e-commerce won't scale enough to combat the sharp rise in fraud coming in the post-EMV economy.

Target and Visa have finally reached a settlement in the wake of the retailer’s massive 2013 data breach, but it’s still unclear how much of that settlement—expected to total about $67 million—will trickle down to credit unions.

Harper Reed and Dylan Richard first burst onto Chicago's tech scene as part of Barack Obama's 2012 reelection team, and their social media wizardry is often credited for keeping the president in the White House.

Avidia Bank of Hudson, Mass. has contracted payments technology company FIS to offer card-free ATM transactions through a mobile app.

American Express is introducing one of the payments industry's first prepaid debit cards with cashback rewards in an age where the best rewards are typically reserved for the more lucrative credit card market.

MasterCard and First Tech Federal Credit Union are testing a system that might be the picture-perfect solution to the expected rise in e-commerce fraud following the October shift to EMV security in the U.S.

Target Corp. reached a settlement with Visa Inc. over a hacker attack that struck the retail chain during the 2013 holiday season and exposed millions of customers' personal information.