Payments

The long-term promise of mobile wallets has been that plastic cards could disappear, even from the point of issuance.

Security software-maker Gemalto NV Chief Executive Officer Philippe Vallee says sales growth will accelerate as soon as this quarter.

Nigeria is becoming a hotbed of mobile payments development, with the nation’s largest banks and wireless telecom companies launching a mobile payments platform this month.

The fintech boom attracted a lot of new investors and in turn, billions of dollars into the market. But some of that money went to projects that haven’t lived up to the hype and in 2016, we’re starting to see a pullback.

Mobile wallets need to be open and accessible across all systems.

Like Uber, Airbnb has become a popular partner for payment companies.

Consumers increasingly are embracing contactless payments for smaller, routine transactions, with average transaction size rising slightly.

There was once a huge push behind contactless payment cards in the U.S., but eventually issuers lost interest in the format. However, there are signs that contactless payments will make another push.

Merchants have been allowed to surcharge in most states for the past three years, but many were not aware. That's starting to change.

An ACL client with hundreds of U.S. employees recently began requiring its workforce to use Uber for all business travel-related cab rides, after ACL revealed how Uber’s geolocation data could be correlated with the details of employees’ expense reports.

Long one of mobile payments' success stories, Starbucks reports major gains in both mobile ordering and payments.

Payments technology is showing up in places that were unimaginable just a few years ago. That creates new opportunities for merchants and banks, but also new opportunities for fraudsters.

The newest Samsung smartwatch will include the Samsung Pay mobile wallet to allow users to make payments at terminals that accept swipe or contactless payments.

The clocks turn back this weekend, giving most Americans an extra hour to cash in on sleep. But new research finds they tend to spend less money with fewer hours of daily sunlight.

Citigroup customers can now dispute credit card charges through its app, one of several mobile enhancements the company rolled out Wednesday.

Issuers are watching the consumer response to Citi’s rollout of its cobranded Costco card, which is the largest U.S. portfolio of EMV cards that are also NFC-enabled.

We asked experts in the payments industry what business issue they would like to eliminate in the year ahead. Here is what they had to say.

Application programming interfaces have grown so quickly, they're no longer the future of payments. They're the present.

An increasing number of shoppers use a mix of digital and in-store to research, shop and pay. Retailers must accommodate all three to stay relevant, according to Revel.

Citigroup customers can now dispute credit card charges through its app, one of several mobile enhancements rolled out by the company Wednesday.