Payments

Consumers using the Alipay app will be able to find nearby merchants that accept the popular Chinese mobile wallet, and receive coupons for local deals.

How two CUs of differing asset sizes brought card processing in-house to boost efficiencies and reduce costs.

The FTC likes facial recognition, but consumers may not be comfortable with using the technology to secure mobile payments.

InstaReM plans to use the investment to accommodate rapid volume expansion.

Transaction laundering is gaining steam, and since it uses familiar payment technology, it can be easier to use than virtual currency, writes Ron Teicher of EverCompliant.

Both Vantiv and JPMorgan have a strong merchant acquiring business in the U.S., while Worldpay has a large market in Europe.

Military and intelligence agencies around the world have grappled with data breach challenges for years, and have relied on Secure KM (Keyboard/Mouse) switches to manage the risk.

Apple and Australia's largest banks have been battling for more than a year over mobile payments access.

Retailers are worried about the online giant’s move into bricks-and-mortar retailing. For example, Amazon's $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc. wiped $17 billion off the value of Walmart.

U.S. private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC is among the companies to have shown interest in Nets, which is working with a financial adviser to review options after getting inbound interest.

The Santa Rosa, Calif.-based credit union launched its in-house P2P payments service as part of an attempt to "wow" members and dispel the public's notion that credit unions lack the same sophisticated technologies as big banks.

Apple's plans to display a bright blue bar on iPhone screens when an application is monitoring the user's location may feel like a threat to location-based marketing. More likely, it is an overdue wake-up call for banks to improve their communication about the benefits of location data.

An influx of metal credit cards continues, with Capital One now encasing its popular Venture travel Visa card in metal, raising new questions about whether the marketing impact of such cards offsets their cost to manufacture—and reissue in the event of a data breach.

Led by Starbucks and Apple's mobile payment apps, there's a boom underway and retailers need to act fast to avoid being left behind.

Though they face an array of competitive threats — from digital currencies to peer-to-peer payment apps — the vast majority of community banks do not have a payments strategy, according to a recent survey.

Real-time payment processing is drawing more attention to tangible use cases, such as helping workers pay bills that are due before they receive their salary.

Square has long been considered at the vanguard of digital payment innovation, so it may be a little unexpected to see the company take a step backward into physical card issuance.

Wearables are a clear evolution of the mobile wallet, but companies are still experimenting with use cases. Here are a few of the latest concepts.

Retailers should focus on creating a premium experience for a broad range of customers, writes Tom Caporaso, CEO of Clarus Commerce.

Mobile commerce must support larger and more complex shopping categories to take the next step, and some companies are looking to enable this through alternative financing.