Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is already working with the features of the upcoming Android operating system that Google previewed last week, with the goal of improving the usability and security of mobile payments.

After suffering a major data breach in 2008 when hackers infiltrated its payment processing network, Heartland Payment Systems took great efforts to become the poster child for digital security. But thieves found another way in.

Virtual Piggy's Oink, a mobile wallet app that designed for teens, has introduced a peer-to-peer payment option.

Heartland Payment Systems has reported it suffered another data breach last month.

Revel Systems found its niche in the point-of-sale landscape by developing software that turned an iPad into a payment terminal. But a WiFi-based device such as a tablet is only as strong as the WiFi signal it's connected to.

Heartland Payment Systems has reported it suffered another data breach last month.

Intuit, which works with numerous small-business owners through its QuickBooks software and other products, is learning that convincing merchants to adopt EMV technology will require more than just educating them on the technology and the consequences of missing the card networks' October deadline.

Payments security researchers today find themselves in an awkward position and it's retailers who have put them there.

JPMorgan Chase is now live on clearXchange, a multi-bank person-to-person transfer network that it helped found in 2011, but the competitive landscape for P2P has changed a lot in the intervening years.

Corporate payment solutions provider WEX is introducing a fuel card that is co-branded with GE Capital.

Cloud services provider Akamai Technologies and data security vendor Trustwave are partnering to provide customers with cybersecurity defense mechanisms from their respective portfolios.

Google Inc., looking to expand its mobile capabilities, has acquired Pulse.io Inc., which specializes in making applications faster and more responsive.

One of the iconic images to come out of Google's Android Pay presentation last week is its app loaded with one American Express card — and three retailer loyalty cards.

Since enterprises must maintain information about their customers, why is it that breaches happen constantly?

New software aims to help prevent wireless network hijacking, or "commjacking." But there are also steps financial institutions can take on their own to protect employees and customers from this seldom-discussed but ever-present threat.

American Express Co. President Ed Gilligan died Friday morning after becoming ill on a flight to New York.

Retail chain Sally Beauty knows that it was sick and when. Now the challenge is to figure out what made it sick.

Google's first attempt to work with banks in mobile payments was disastrous — it required banks to jump through hoops to link their brand to its wallet app, and only one issuer ever did before Google lowered the hurdle. But with Android Pay, that logic is reversed, and Google is the one going out of its way to be a part of bankers' apps.

Two of CUNA's professional councils teamed up to explore "physical-digital wallets" in a new white paper.

Paygevity, a payments processing and vendor services company based in New York, has raised half of its funding goal in its first week on securities-based crowdfunding website Crowdfunder.