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The credit union-led CU Wallet is working to attract small-business support by drawing on the local ethos that credit unions have nurtured for years, but it faces a formidable challenge as device makers such as Apple and Samsung bake their own wallets into the hardware.

Payments technology is advancing so quickly on so many fronts that Spindle CEO Bill Clark is changing his requirements for hiring new sales staff.

If you’ve been sifting through your wallet and counting the increasing number of chip-enabled cards you can find in there, you’re probably becoming more and more confident that EMV is finally happening in the U.S.

First Data is looking to sell shares of its stock to address its "indebtedness," the company announced Monday.

NCR has launched a new tablet-based point-of-sale device aimed at minimizing security risks for the merchants that use it.

One of the areas where Uber has raised the bar for customer experiences is in payments.

Independent sales organizations are facing an age-old question that has confronted teenagers for centuries: What are they going to do with their future?

Major tech companies are building payment capabilities into their mobile apps, social networks and other offerings. These projects coincide with a rise in mobile commerce, potentially creating a new standard for how consumers shop.

The regulatory landscape has become far more complex for acquirers and independent sales organizations, mainly because federal agencies are showing more interest in the various layers of the payments ecosystem.

With the implementation of “buy now” buttons, social media will turn into a virtual shopping mall, where users can casually browse products from the brands they’re following.

With the clock ticking for the Oct. 1 deadline for EMV adoption, acquirers and independent sales organizations have a clear opportunity to become payments consultants.

As the path to purchase becomes increasingly more digitized, the act of executing the payment transaction has shifted further and further into the background.

Great Wolf Resorts will give its customers wristbands that can initiate purchases and access hotel rooms at its chain of theme parks and hotels.

Some rules are black and white, which is why Sift Science has added the ability for clients to integrate automatic rules on top of its machine-learning fraud detection system.

Over the past few years, card-linked offers (CLO) have emerged as the next "it” digital advertising channel and is angling to underpin daily-deals platforms that haven’t delivered the long-term customer engagement once promised.

Finding Apple Pay-accepting merchants in the U.K. isn't quite the needle-in-the-haystack proposition that it is in the U.S., but it's still enough of a challenge to raise concerns among Apple's partners during the mobile wallet's launch in the country.

PayItSimple USA is expanding its installment payments technology to the U.K.

Apple Inc. is making the U.K. the first market outside the U.S. for its digital-wallet system as the company fights for a place in the electronic-payments industry.

Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat have recently started to offer or test e-commerce and payments opportunities, and online stores need to pay close attention given the potential size of the consumer base.

Discover Financial Services has certified payments testing software provider Acquirer Systems to provide EMV service for its customers in U.S., Canada and Mexico.