Adding a payment mechanism to online advertising is becoming a popular way to close the conversion gap between mobile shopping and purchasing.

Although it's been widely suspected that merchant EMV compliance will be low in October when the liability shift deadline kicks in, a new Javelin Strategy & Research report is projecting as many as 75% of all merchants will not make the deadline.

Among the most important payment changes on the horizon in the U.S., is the migration to EMV technology and the looming October 1, 2015 deadline.

As mobile payments fuel financial services in countries where traditional banking infrastructure is underwhelming, many in the payments world applaud.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce doesn’t plan to be wed to any one mobile payments system, Chief Executive Officer Victor Dodig said.

Online payment processor Allied Wallet has joined the Saxo Payments Banking Marketplace, allowing it to immediately accept and settle payments globally in multiple currencies at a lower cost.

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. announced that F.C.I. Federal Credit Union has selected and converted to its CruiseNetcore processing system.

London-based Currency Cloud has closed out a Series C funding round, attracting $18 million from new and existing investors.

Trustwave researchers have discovered a vulnerability in RubyGems, a software distribution programming language that's used for many payment processes.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said it has processed the 600,000 credit- and direct-debit transactions that were delayed last week in the government-owned bank’s latest payments failure.

Avangate, a cloud commerce provider, has added new features to attract online services providers, such as improving payment collection for software-based companies and boosting consumer retention techniques.

MONETT, Mo. — Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry, said Tampa, Fla.-based Suncoast Credit Union selected Episys for its core processing.

Small to mid-size credit unions and regional banks could be at greater risk of SMS phishing and phone attacks than their big-bank counterparts, according to one cybersecurity expert, who analyzed the frequency, location and targets of actual known attacks.

Bankers are banding together to combat cybercrime and Chris Feeney, new head of the Financial Services Roundtable's technology arm, wants to play a central role in keeping it a team effort.

E-commerce technology company Spindle and payment gateway PayLeap are combining products in an attempt to lower costs for small to medium-sized gun clubs.

Following up on First Data's launch of the Clover Mini mobile point of sale device, TruBeacon has placed software in the Clover App Market that will link data from the payment terminal over a network of multiple retail locations.

The Dinube digital payments network plans to bypass legacy card networks while providing merchants and consumers in Europe's Single Euro Payments Area a real-time payment system without interchange pricing.

Visa and MasterCard are putting more resources than ever behind their tokenization services as they push to improve their standing in the overall digital payment market.

Mobile payments are hot. Industry insiders both hope and fear new technology will upend reigning retail payment systems such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express.

The deal is the latest step by eBay to focus on its online marketplace as it restructures. The San Jose, Calif.-based company is scheduled to spin off its PayPal transactions business in the third quarter.