Fraudsters, anticipating the U.S. shift to EMV security at the point of sale, are busy looking for ways to hack into the e-commerce sites and consumer bank accounts that will be unaffected by the change in payment card security.

Mobile payments are quickly becoming an integral part of consumers’ daily lives. In order for businesses to stay competitive, it’s important for them to stay on top of the trends in the industry.

Cardmaker American Banknote (ABnote) is pushing a package the vendor says makes it is easy to deliver Apple Passbook functionality on Android devices.

Standard Treasury team joined SVB Financial's information technology team this week to help it expand the bank's digital banking platform.

The first version of the Samsung mobile wallet is nothing like the Samsung Pay that is now making its way to handsets. But the one consistent theme in Samsung's strategy is to be the first to experiment with new technologies.

Many payment companies are hosting hackathons to attract developer talent from outside their own ranks; MasterCard found that its own people are just as eager to bring their ideas to life.

Tangerine Bank, the former Canadian operation of ING Direct, is creating and testing applications on IBM's Bluemix cloud software environment at a facility in Toronto.

Starbucks founder and Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz says he won't be making a run for U.S. president.

Twitter is reportedly integrating with Shopify and other e-commerce companies to find merchants to support its buy button.

Target is deploying Bluetooth beacons to offer time-sensitive deals and product recommendations to shoppers in its stores, and it has more ambitious plans for the technology later in the year.

Intuvo, a division of CU Direct that provides marketing automation software to the credit union industry, announced that it has entered into new partnership agreements with four credit unions.

Health and wellness apps may not much in common with small business payments and merchant services, but it was the fitness-tracking craze that lit a fire under Intuit to build an Apple Watch app for its clients.

With the EMV-chip card deadline just two months away, Mercury Payment Systems is emphasizing security by providing a reason for its partners to engage in more education and become certified as compliant with the Payment Card Industry data security standard.

There is money to be made for merchants who support mobile payments. However, cyber criminals have noticed and they want their cut, too. The newer and more untested the technology, the greater its potential vulnerability.

The issues tied to its MoneyPak reload cards continue to plague Green Dot Corp., despite the prepaid card issuer's decision to discontinue the product back in 2014.

Apple Pay users are fanatically satisfied — to the tune of 98% of in-store users and 93% of in-app users surveyed — making an average of 2.6 weekly in-store purchases and 2.3 weekly in-app purchases.

The U.S. card networks have been trying to gain a foothold in the huge Indian payments market for years, and both Visa and MasterCard have upped the ante in the past year by opening development centers to launch new payments technology directly into the market.

Apple Pay users are fanatically satisfied — to the tune of 98% of in-store users and 93% of in-app users surveyed — making an average of 2.6 weekly in-store purchases and 2.3 weekly in-app purchases, according to the Auriemma Consulting Group.

Even an entrepreneur who specializes in products for young people can be taken aback by how fast a new mobile technology becomes an everyday necessity for its users.

Looking at the majority of recent articles around the launch of Apple Pay in the UK, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the most exciting aspect of Apple Pay is its harnessing of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.