The world of payments is changing, and a lot of that change results from the dedication of innovative retailers. Whether partnering with payment companies or going it alone, these brands are putting fresh ideas into practice.

There is some good and bad EMV-related news for the U.S. when it comes to chargebacks and false declines.

Loyalty marketing is considered a substantial lure for mobile payments, but the introduction of new channels also complicates the strategy, according to Kevin Wray, the chief commercial officer at Switchfly.

New details unearthed about how cybercriminals stole $81 million out of a Bangladesh Bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide insight into how the theft occurred, some of the vulnerabilities that were exploited and what banks can learn from the incident.

New details unearthed about how cybercriminals stole $81 million out of a Bangladesh Bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide insight into how the theft occurred, some of the vulnerabilities that were exploited and what banks can learn from the incident.

Visa launched its Visa Developer platform earlier this year to open up to third-party developers and bring more attention to digital commerce, a move that gives its second annual "Everywhere Initiative" even more meaning.

Success rates vary wildly for innovation labs, but some basic principles increase a bank’s chances of the incubation process leading to viable product expansion.

McDonald's has been at the fore of many new digital initiatives around the world, and it has played a significant role in demonstrating how MasterCard can flex its international scale to build new services and avoid being disrupted.

Innovation in financial services faces a hurdle in the narrow, short-term profit motives of predatory patent trolls. Here is what startups can do to ward off attacks.

MasterCard Inc., the second-largest U.S. payments network, reported profit that beat analysts’ estimates as card spending increased.

EMV chip card protections at the point of sale and a general corporate awareness of card data security are helping lower the number of data compromises worldwide. But fraudsters are moving quickly to bigger targets.

An organization could go to great lengths to protect its internal network only to have all that effort undone by its third party service provider failing to take proper security measures.

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.

Wells Fargo will soon roll out eyeprint verification for its commercial customers using its mobile banking platform.

Visa issuers will be required by October of this year to provide a transaction alert service to cardholders — but if they don't have a plan in place this week, Visa will step in with its own offering.

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.

American Express is giving a limited number of Uber riders access to Beyoncé's Formation concert tour, in the latest example of a financial services company allying with the tech-savvy ridesharing service.

Core data processor CU*Answers announced that University of Toledo Federal Credit Union successfully converted to the CU*BASE data processing system in April.

More than 2.5 million contactless reader terminals accept Apple Pay in the U.S. and CEO Cook expects ‘more expansion’ soon.

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.