Retailers

Credit card rewards programs were born in the heyday of plastic and paper. As payments go digital, banks will have to make sure their loyalty programs keep pace.

Financial institutions offering checkless checking is trending, and checkless checking accounts—as part of the FDIC’s 2011 Model Safe Accounts Pilot—appeared to perform well among the underserved consumer participants.

A few years after a deal with Starbucks didn't boost processing volume, Square's returning to partnerships to jog its volume.

Square Inc. unveiled deals with software startups Vend and TouchBistro, the latest partnerships that will offer its products to larger businesses that aren’t already customers of its electronic-payments system.

Banks are playing a more active role in the next phase of fintech, both as investors and partners, says David Sica, partner at venture capital firm Nyca. That change is shaping how the firm looks at new investments.

Successful platform businesses in the 'Uber/Airbnb' age aren't just about matchmaking. There are also value added services that enrich the experience, and keep customers coming back.

It would have to take something big for consumers to flock to a mobile wallet en masse. Whether it meant to or not, California-based RadPad found out what consumers wanted, but it wasn't prepared for the aftermath.

American banks are emerging from one of the most challenging decades for any industry in history, and one area that is showing a potential way forward is payments.

If there is a takeaway from Citigroup's not-quite-stellar rollout of the Costco Anywhere Visa card, it is this: Even in modern times, the transition of large card portfolios from one issuer to another can prove disastrously complex.

The recent hack of the DAO (short for Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and the subsequent reversal of funds on Ethereum's blockchain should finally put an end to a decentralization charade.

Rewards are considered a key driver to get consumers to adopt mobile payments, and Walgreens has tied its loyalty program to Android Pay.

There’s no way to gift-wrap the EMV woes for issuers and retailers around the upcoming holiday sales season.

Acquirers and independent sales organizations have long heard a similar refrain: Adjust to the fast pace of technology or perish.

The recent security incident involving Oracle POS systems demonstrates once again that no system is immune to security breaches.

Citigroup Inc. mistakenly sent e-mails to some active Costco Wholesale Corp. members telling them their wholesale club membership had lapsed and that their cards would be canceled, bringing a fresh headache to the new partnership.

As it charts a long-term digital payment strategy, TSYS has hired Karim Ahmad, a management consultant with a background in financial technology, to be as head of global product and innovation.

This week Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp is launching a new consumer account that's designed to appeal to millions of Americans shut out of the mainstream financial system.

The promise of faster EMV technology is a welcome reprieve for many ISOs who have grown weary of listening to merchants gripe about the snail's pace of chip card transactions. That reprieve, however, may not be so quick in coming.

With all the innovation and momentum around consumer wallets and payments, payment security is a huge concern to banks, merchants, issuers, payment networks and any new wallet provider.

The shifting attitude of Asian consumers such as Chiu is upending the economics of the credit-card industry, and banks like Citigroup Inc., HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc are taking note. The banks, which increasingly rely on the region’s swelling number of affluent people to drive profits, are slashing the number of card products they offer in Asia and focusing instead on getting a smaller range of cards adopted for online payments.