Payments

Card firm MBNA has joined the first wave of issuers to offer Samsung Pay when it launches in the United Kingdom.

As banks weigh blockchain-powered clearing and settlement solutions, the Royal Bank of Canada is looking at how the technology can bolster its customer loyalty schemes.

Starbucks Corp. fell the most in more than two months after Deutsche Bank AG downgraded the stock, saying that changes to the company’s loyalty program may hurt customer traffic.

Green Dot has named three new directors, ignoring the slate of nominees recently proposed by activist investor Harvest Capital Strategies.

GORUCK sells what's called "rucking," something so unusual that one of the first things on its website is a link called "what is rucking?"

AOC Solutions in Chantilly, Va., has launched Transact Global, a processing platform exclusively for digital payments among businesses that still rely on manual processing.

Allied Wallet, a London-based online payments processor, completed a payments gateway integration with Marco Fine Arts Inc., enabling the printing specialist’s customers to accept payments in 196 countries, the companies said April 11.

Ingenico Group has acquired a startup company that will help the French terminal manufacturer advance "screen commerce" by connecting devices to display screens for payment, marketing or loyalty programs.

"Omnichannel" isn't just a buzzword to describe marketing and payments in different formats—it also applies to corporate dealmaking as merchant acquirers catch M&A fever.

Nowait is adding payments to an app that manages customer wait lists at restaurants that don’t take reservations.

Many consumers still prefer to use cash when they owe someone else money. And plenty owe the Internal Revenue Service money at this time of year.

Square will be the exclusive point of sale provider for Coachella, a large music festival, covering everything from tickets to concessions.

A taxpayer's annual refund is a big prize that fraudsters are eager to steal. Many new risks are being introduced by new technology, but there are cross-industry efforts to combat these new schemes and make sure each refund gets to the proper household.

Cutting out every step except one—opening the app—Domino's Pizza has introduced what may be the most streamlined approach yet to ordering and paying for delivery with its Zero-Click Ordering app, which launched this week for iOS and Android.

Mobile payment users are set to soar in the coming years and this is the chief reason competitive businesses need to get on board.

When JPMorgan Chase recently launched a new website, Gavin Michael, head of digital for consumer and community banking, credited much of the success and speed (it took 18 months) of the project to the bank's recent migration to agile development.

Citi has expanded its ThankYou Rewards program to allow its reward points to be used directly for purchases at BestBuy.com.

Seeing its opening in the mobile wallet market, Mobeewave's pushing a product that exists somewhere between the models of Square and Venmo, resurrecting a relatively old idea of having people pay each other by using their phones.

Financial industry representatives immediately raised significant questions about Donald Trump's plan to block remittances to Mexico, including the appropriateness of using financial institutions as a tool to carry out immigration policy, as well as how the policy would be executed.

CO-OP Financial Services annual shareholder dividend pool totaled $53.3 million for 2015, the highest annual dividend recorded by a credit union service organization for its owner credit unions, the company announced Wednesday.