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PayPal Holdings Inc. reported first-quarter sales and profit that beat estimates, adding customers against an onslaught of competition from credit-card issuers, startups and smartphone makers looking for a piece of the fast-growing digital payments market.

It's been a tough time to be a mobile point of sale company, but SumUp believes it's found the right formula to not only get through the shakeout but to thrive.

With the backdrop of a tough financial second quarter, Apple executives both sang the praises of Apple Pay's uptick in consumer use and admitted the company has to view the mobile payment service as a future money maker rather than a key contributor now.

Apple Pay's plans to expand to online retailers may seem as simple as a natural progression, but appearances can be deceiving.

A troubling gap is growing between the promises being made around mobile payments to consumers and merchants, and what payments technology providers are actually delivering, according to PayPal’s Bill Ready.

Capital One's rewards and marketing may cause some short-term performance issues, but the institution's aggressive posture is necessary in the current environment, the company's CEO said.

Vantiv named Stephanie Ferris chief financial officer, promoting her from deputy chief financial officer, a post she has held since September 2015.

The hurdles to broader EMV adoption in the U.S. have many causes, but to the consumer the end result is typically the same: A longer payment process with no immediate gain.

KKR & Co. reported a loss for the first quarter after its biggest investment, in payments processor First Data Corp., lost a fifth of its value, highlighting the heightened exposure a private equity firm takes on when it bets its own money on a company.

When you make a payment on a website using a HTTPS connection, Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption is what makes your payment transfer over the public internet secure. Unfortunately, it's riddled with security flaws.

Multi-factor authentication will be required for administrative access to card data and systems for Payment Card Industry data security compliance this week.

U.S. Bancorp said Friday that it has agreed to sell its majority stake in a Brazilian technology division of its Elavon payments processing subsidiary.

First Data Corp., the payments processor that went public last year, halved its losses in the first quarter as revenue increased.

Growth opportunities for e-commerce companies looking to go global in the next few years are huge, but many are daunted by the complexity of different online payment approaches used around the world, say international e-commerce payment experts.

The breach experienced by Mossack Fonseca did more than expose sensitive tax documents for global figures in politics and business. It's also a warning sign for any company that manages large amounts of financial and transaction data.

MasterCard will vault itself deep into the faster payments landscape and position itself better to compete with Visa in the U.K. if a £1 billion acquisition of VocaLink unfolds as reported on a U.K. news site.

We have been clear from the start that the date fixed by the card networks for liability shift was far too aggressive and essentially resulted in a Christmas present to card issuers.

The commerce game is increasingly being played on a mobile field and so consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies must invest in a mobile strategy and specifically a mobile payment strategy soon, before they miss the boat.

Ingenico Group is confident it can translate consumers' love for big-screen entertainment into a payments technology blockbuster.

In its quest to supply small businesses with services that go beyond payments, First Data Corp.'s Clover subsidiary is extending e-commerce website support to its merchant clients beginning next month.