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Mobile wallets and related technologies are starting to look very different. Whether they are absorbed into other mobile offerings or removed from the phone altogether, these systems are looking less and less like the old-fashioned billfolds they replace.

In one of its biggest splashes since first making Amazon Dash Button payments available nearly a year ago, the Seattle-based online shopping giant says it has tripled the number of brands that support its WiFi instant ordering system.

First Data Corp. paid Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano $51.6 million in 2015, almost twice what his former boss, JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon, received last year.

The payments pioneer is transforming its merchant cash advance into a business loan, a move that has significant legal and regulatory implications.

I don't normally buy $300 of pizza. But it's not as unusual as my credit card issuer might think, and that's part of the problem for prevailing identity management strategy.

Square Inc. is introducing a new e-commerce tool that lets merchants collect payments on their websites, putting the San Francisco company in more direct competition with online payments leader PayPal Holdings Inc.

In the coming years, biometrics will be the leading security metric to protect payment systems, but a single ultra-hack could derail this progression permanently.

EBay has become a member of the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, making it the first e-commerce company to achieve FIDO certification.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, two more Americans will have fallen prey to credit card fraud.

Pep Boys' early results suggest there is something to the argument that successful mobile wallets are more about relationship-building and less about payments.

Square wants to ease the anxiety many small merchants may feel around no-shows when they accept online appointments for their businesses.

The capacity for EMV cards to swiftly and drastically reduce payment card fraud in the U.S. is by no means assured.

The U.S. shift to EMV — once considered as viable as the U.S. shift to the metric system — is well underway. Here are some of the latest signs of progress, as well as some of the biggest pain points.

We may have more in common than we let on, there are some things that I think Canadians are doing better than their counterparts, including the U.S. and that includes fraud management.

Starbucks is prepared to launch a new Starbucks Rewards Prepaid Card with partner JPMorgan Chase, further strengthening its ongoing relationship with the bank.

With its reputation for welcoming software developers with open arms solidified two years ago through its acquisition of Mercury Payment Systems, Vantiv Inc. is looking for the next way it can attract and enable innovation.

The tension between the desire of government agencies to gain more access with greater ease, and the public’s evolving perception of data privacy rights, is ongoing and writ large in the case of FBI vs. Apple, which brings the complexities regarding security technology such as encryption to light.

Minneapolis' new transit deployment seems limited and even old school—it's a closed loop payment system that's only available on buses and not on the Twin Cities' expanding light rail system.

Many moons after the U.S. payment industry adopted a largely chip-and-signature approach to EMV instead of chip-and-PIN security that’s standard elsewhere, rising merchant chargebacks are leading some to question the wisdom of PIN-free payments.

There are shortcomings in prevailing chargeback procedures that are costing merchants billions of dollars each year.