A bill has been introduced in the California Assembly that would set rules around digital currencies like Bitcoin.

A South African payments company has established a consumer-facing subsidiary in London to enable its worldwide expansion over the next few years.

MasterCard and Visa are using Samsung's mobile wallet to further the adoption of tokenization and other security methods at the point of sale, but safety concerns still cast a shadow on mobile payments and commerce.

California assemblyman Matt Dababneh, D-Encino, has proposed AB 1326, a bill that provides guidelines for any individual or business that wants to start using virtual currency.

MasterCard has entered into an agreement with African mobile banking and payment services company eTranzact International to provide remittance services to Nigerian consumers.

Roughly 12.7 million Americans were hit with identity fraud in 2014, a 3% drop from a year earlier, while losses tied to that fraud fell 11% to $16 billion, said the study, which was released by Javelin Strategy & Research.

Mobile check-in and pay has been underused in most markets, but a German bagel shop hopes the technology can encourage normally cash-reliant Germans to go digital.

Square hopes to broaden its reach with its core micro-merchant market by offering technology to tap the $1.6 trillion e-commerce market.

The micro-merchants that were first enabled to accept magstripe card payments from mobile card-reader are now getting the ability to accept contactless payments with hardware from Ingenico.

Visa and Pizza Hut are banking on pizza ordering and payment in the future to take place inside of automobiles.

Heartland Payment Systems has acquired payroll and tax filing products provider Payroll 1 to bolster its ability to add extra merchant services to lure payroll processing clients.

By agreeing to acquire mobile payment provider Paydiant, e-commerce giant PayPal has vaulted itself back into the in-store mobile wallet landscape in which Apple, Google, Samsung and others have commanded recent attention.

Samsung Pay's ability to allow mobile payments while mimicking plastic card transactions will make it harder for rivals and merchants to strike back by disabling NFC at the point of sale when the system debuts later this year.

A Google executive has confirmed the company has established Android Pay, a previously rumored platform upon which developers can build payments into applications.

Costco has picked Visa as its new payment card network and Citigroup as the new issuer of its cobranded credit cards.

Uber Technologies Inc. said an unauthorized third party accessed the company's database last year and may have taken data on about 50,000 drivers.

Bank of the West has joined the early adopters of technology that lets customers pay bills by photographing them with their smartphones, potentially reinforcing the customer-retention benefits of online bill pay.

CO-OP Financial Services has vastly expanded its real time person to person payments reach, adding a credit union-led alternative to the faster payment models being pursued by banks.

First American Payment Systems is bringing another mobile point of sale system into the crowded marketplace of companies seeking small-merchant business.

Samsung Electronics Co. rebooted its premium Galaxy smartphone line with the S6 and S6 Edge, featuring payment software that makes them compatible with about 90% of card readers.