PayPal will be guaranteed a reliable source of revenue after the payments service separates from EBay Inc. later this year.

Bank regulators plan to release their self-assessment tool later this quarter to gauge institutions' cyber readiness, but many see it as sign of more prescriptive measures down the road.

Idea Bank in Poland aims to win over new small-business customers with an Uber-like service that orders cars equipped with ATMs and cash deposit machines to drive to them.

After a making a number of adjustments to overcome a shaky start, Google Wallet is starting to build momentum with merchants, this week adding Shopify, Dunkin Donuts and Seamless to the roster of companies supporting the search company's mobile wallet.

With so much focus on specific mobile devices and form factors for delivering a payment, banks and issuers can lose sight of the fact that consumers will ultimately decide how and when they will pay, said Cheryl Guerin, executive vice president and U.S. product and solutions lead for MasterCard Inc.

Prosper Marketplace, one of the leading U.S. consumer marketplace lenders, announced $165 million in equity funding from large banks and other investors Wednesday.

With only six months to go before the EMV chip-card liability shift takes effect, many U.S. merchants are not yet aware of the EMV migration.

BBVA Compass is launching real-time payments through Dwolla, but the really interesting part is what's going on beneath the surface: the bank is opening its technological black box to a nimble startup in order to speed innovation.

Snapdeal, an Indian online marketplace similar to Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba, reached a deal to acquire FreeCharge, an Indian mobile transactions service.

CHICAGO -- A gender disconnect in mobile payments is emerging as one of the persistent obstacles to the new technology.

E-commerce gateway Klarna will soon launch in the U.S., the latest Swedish payment company to seek market share in the country.

Novantas, a New York-based bank advisory firm, has hired the former head of analytics for Bank of America.

Mobile money transfer platform nTrust has expanded its merchant partner network, adding fashion retailers, antique stores, food trucks and bars.

The Asia-Pacific region has historically been the last target for U.S. corporate expansion. But fast advances in m-commerce are proving irresistible for outside payment companies.

The adoption of new anti-fraud card technology is prompting more community banks to consider supporting Apple Pay.

In the last two months, the CEO of a major national restaurant payments service has seen surprising uptake of Apple Pay among the company's restaurant clients.

Consumers could decide for themselves whether to use an EMV-chip card with a signature or PIN if the card is coded to accept such a change. But the technology to support PIN reset will be spotty at first.

Seamless' strategy for its mobile wallet, SEQR, is simple and obvious: You can't scale internationally if you don't launch a product internationally.

Groupon may not have its own mobile wallet, but it has a strong foundation to build on: The 110 million downloads of its daily-discount app, plus the merchants using its Breadcrumb mobile point of sale system.

Jacob Dienelt, a former financial adviser at Morgan Stanley, has joined Factom, a cryptocurrency tech startup, as its head treasurer.