One of the areas where Uber has raised the bar for customer experiences is in payments.

Toronto's mass transit system is embarking on a mobile ticketing initiative that the system's operators hope will become the dominant payment system within three years — a time frame that demonstrates how hard it is to migrate to new payment technology.

Independent sales organizations are facing an age-old question that has confronted teenagers for centuries: What are they going to do with their future?

JPMorgan Chase is set to launch its new homepage on Sunday, marking its first major overhaul of Chase.com since 2012. The new homepage aims to simplify language and makes the company's news and stories feature more prominent with the hopes of driving customer engagement.

Seaboard FCU here has selected Synergent for its core processing needs.

E-commerce fraud management platform provider Ethoca has raised $45 million in investment after significant growth last year.

Samsung has begun piloting its mobile payment system in South Korea, the first step in a gradual rollout of a system that's designed to play nice with retailers' older point of sale systems.

Major tech companies are building payment capabilities into their mobile apps, social networks and other offerings. These projects coincide with a rise in mobile commerce, potentially creating a new standard for how consumers shop.

Groupon Inc. acquired OrderUp, an on-demand online and mobile food ordering and delivery marketplace, a move that further diversifies the company away from its origins as a daily deals site and pits it against the likes of GrubHub Inc.

As China loosens restrictions on international commerce, foreign merchants bringing their operations to China may be unprepared for the types of fraud they encounter.

C-Spire is looking to increase the use of its self-service kiosks, so it's installing ones that borrow several design cues from Apple's handsets.

With the implementation of “buy now” buttons, social media will turn into a virtual shopping mall, where users can casually browse products from the brands they’re following.

The leak of documents from the surveillance software and "ethical hacking" firm Hacking Team revealed that some foreign banks were clients. Had any U.S. banks been on the list, the last two weeks would have been … interesting.

As PayPal sets to formally split from eBay on July 20, President and CEO Dan Schulman is setting a goal to vastly increase how often consumers use PayPal.

EBay Inc. agreed to sell its Enterprise unit to a group led by Permira for $925 million and reported second-quarter sales that beat analysts' estimates on the eve of its breakup from transaction business PayPal.

As the path to purchase becomes increasingly more digitized, the act of executing the payment transaction has shifted further and further into the background.

When a restaurant chain's senior marketing manager ran a location-based offer trial this summer, she was quite surprised to see a mobile conversion rate that topped 45% — which meant that almost one out of every two consumers who were pinged by the chain's mobile app drove to the store and made a purchase.

Google is firming up plans for a feature that allows consumers to buy products directly from a retailer's ad on a mobile phone, part of a Silicon Valley-driven trend that would place card issuers at a disadvantage.

Great Wolf Resorts will give its customers wristbands that can initiate purchases and access hotel rooms at its chain of theme parks and hotels.

Nokia Oyj's mapping business will work with partners to develop global standards that would allow users to buy transit tickets in cities around the world from a single mobile-device app.