The Canadian government is extending its code of conduct for payment cards to any mobile transactions, while also assuring retailers that any savings from reduced interchange will be passed along to them.

Digital payment providers are finally earning the same level of consumer trust that banks have long cherished.

ProPay has added MasterPass, MasterCard’s digital wallet, to its merchant services.

There’s a fintech rivalry brewing between New York City and London. But in terms of transit payments, London is winning with an interoperable contactless system that runs more smoothly than New York's MetroCard.

Google has scrapped and rebuilt pieces of its mobile wallet many times, and it looks like those years of tinkering are paying off as more merchants adopt Google Wallet.

While the big players in mobile have arrived—Apple, Samsung and Google, the result has been a trade of one form of complexity for another.

AUSTIN, Texas — Apple Watch, the technology giant's first new product in five years, and first without Steve Jobs, debuts later this month. As time quickly ticks away to the launch date, a handful of credit unions and their vendors are testing companion banking apps.

If Apple Pay comes to Spain anytime soon, supermarket chain Mercadona will be ready for it.

Executives at card networks and issuers are concluding that tried-and-true marketing methods can still expand card acceptance in an increasingly digital world.

YapStone has named technology and payments systems veteran Daniel Issen as its new chief technology officer.

While issuers and merchants scramble to issue EMV-chip cards in the U.S., Gemalto is taking a longer view into the cards' environmental impact when they are discarded as part of regular reissuance.

Google’s announcement of Pony Express, a bill presentment and payment service, has caught the attention of many financial service providers including banks and credit unions.

Experts from the banking, retail and technology sectors gathered last week for SourceMedia's annual Card Forum and Expo, sharing their predictions for the payments industry's next step. Some were involved in Apple Pay from day one; others are looking past it to the next big thing.

Papa John's is integrating its mobile and online checkout process with Venmo, a PayPal-owned system that fuses mobile and social networking to enable person to person payments.

VACAVILLE, Calif. — Whatever you do, don't call it a branch. Travis Credit Union 23rd location is a Financial Solution Center.

Virtual Piggy, owner of the youth payment service called Oink, announced April 10 it had hired a "financial advisor to explore strategic alternatives," which often means a company may soon seek a buyer or investor.

From RBC's perspective, the future will be better served by multi-purpose devices like the Apple Watch, which can store multiple card accounts and be controlled by the consumer from a Bluetooth-connected smartphone.

Only 10 people in the bank were allowed to know what the project's goal was, and the other Apple Pay partners were known only by code names. But even though Apple was running the show pre-launch, U.S. Bank had a daunting task ahead of it once the restrictions lifted and Apple revealed its mobile wallet to the world.

The payment companies that serve micro merchant communities face many inventive fraud schemes, and the fraudsters behind them are getting wiser about how to appear legitimate.

Lyle Beckwith of the National Association of Convenience Stores argues that debit card interchange is unfairly high. But this argument ignores several key points.