Payments

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.

The number of new credit card accounts jumped 11% to 84.9 million in the second quarter while monthly purchase volumes also increased, according to a report by the American Bankers Association.

When Android Pay launched, Google Wallet became a P-to-P service. That market's getting popular, and Google is responding with a web upgrade.

Visa closed its acquisition of Visa Europe in late June, ending a year of negotiations and years of speculation in the payments industry.

Zelle, the big banks' answer to Venmo, is set to launch next year. But will its reach be enough to curb Venmo's momentum?

Alibaba is taking advantage of a consumer shift to shopping on mobile devices as it uses its massive computing power and investments in data centers.

A new solution designed by credit union professionals could soon allow consumers to more easily change payment settings for purchase at retailers such as Amazon and Netflix.

Linked2pay is expanding a text-based, person-to-person payment service to allow banks to offer it for card and Automated Clearing House payments.

Larsen will hand the reins and the CEO title at Ripple over to Brad Garlinghouse, who is currently the company’s president and chief operating officer.