Bank innovation has tended to focus on retail customers, but expect more technology for commercial customers in the coming year as those clients deman products that are easy to use and help them run more efficient enterprises.

JetPay Payment Services, a unit of JetPay Corp., is working with the lending platform provider Credibly to give JetPay's distribution network access to Credibly's technology.

America First Credit Union of Riverdale, Utah, is launching both Android Pay and Samsung Pay, the two most prominent mobile wallet options for Android smartphones.

Banks face immense challenges trying to keep up with technology, but they also must cater to older customers with big deposit accounts who still use their branch.

The U.S. migration to EMV chip cards garnered most of the spotlight in 2015, but the October liability shift was just the start.

Apple Pay and Samsung Pay are coming to China in early 2016, in a potential defensive move by China UnionPay to fend off competition from domestic mobile payment rivals on the rise in China, including Alipay and Tencent.

Fresh off the announcement of Walmart Pay, fellow retail chain and Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) member Target is planning its own mobile payment system, according to CNBC.

The age of Google Glass may be over, but 2015 saw wearable technology emerge in more subtle forms such as watches, rings and other items that appear more trendy than geeky. The payments industry is working to make the most of this fashionable trend.

Perhaps even more interesting than the blockchain project unveiled this week is how it came to be — and who is behind it.

Credit Union Journal asked technology executives at credit unions and CUSOs across the nation to share what new technology solutions would make 2016 more merry and bright—and productive.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has added two years to its deadline for organizations involved in payment processing to upgrade to a more secure Web protocol.

Small to large retail vendors are constantly aspiring to improve customer experience, resulting in more friendly point of sale (POS) interactions.

Uber's ride sharing app is generally considered less of a threat to payment processors than to the Taxi and Limousine Commission, but the ease of Uber's payment process may prompt consumers to grow frustrated with any process that forces them through a traditional checkout page.

FIS in Jacksonville, Fla., has partnered with the Venture Center to create an incubation lab to boost innovation in financial technology.

Moven will soon prompt its customers for usernames and passwords only for riskier transactions. By removing the login for most functions, the company aims to drive engagement in an app meant to be used on the go.

Ramamurthi has transformed a 123-year-old institution with one branch serving a dusty Kansas town into a seedbed for disruptive financial technology — not to mention a wildly profitable generator of fee income.

Wells Fargo in San Francisco said that its chief information officer will retire at the end of March.

Wirecard has made its boon mobile wallet available in Spain and Ireland.

Uber has long taught that the best way to get consumers to pay with a mobile device is to make the payment almost invisible. Now, with the help of Facebook and Braintree, Uber is applying that philosophy to the rest of its business — and if Facebook has its way, other companies will again follow Uber's example.

E-commerce and mobile fraud detection and prevention provider Kount Inc. has received an $80 million growth equity investment from CVC Capital Partners.