Pay.gov, the federal government's web portal for collecting payments to federal agencies, is now offering PayPal and Dwolla as payment options.

Samsung's plan to acquire LoopPay gives the mobile phone maker a technology that can reach more merchants faster than Near Field Communication (NFC), the technology used by Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

Orrstown Bank in Pennsylvania has introduced two-way text messaging between customers and its service agents. It's the latest effort in the banking industry to make communication easier for mobile-first customers.

Mobile banking technology company Monitise is by all appearances for sale, though it may have to get creative to find a buyer.

Vladimir Drinkman, a Muscovite charged in the biggest data-breach prosecution in U.S. history, pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he conspired to steal 160 million credit card numbers.

Decisions about when and how to implement EMV technology in credit and debit cards are difficult. Many banks have decided to slowly phase it in, despite the fact the delay will open them up to greater potential liability.

Vladimir Drinkman, a Muscovite charged in the biggest data-breach prosecution in U.S. history, pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he conspired to steal 160 million credit card numbers.

After a number of high profile security breaches in the past couple of years, consumer trust in the payments system is more fragile than ever.

In two recent overseas incidents, payment companies redefined "security" to suit a specific situation, rather than keeping it the constant that their customers expect.

With the breach threat showing no signs of slowing, security companies are rapidly broadening their systems to simultaneously fight identity fraud stemming from clients' consumers and employees.

Bluefin Payment Systems is making point-to-point encryption available to large merchants that use Heartland Payment Systems as a processor, a key move as U.S businesses grapple with the migration to chip cards.

Kaspersky Lab has unveiled a cyber-heist in which hackers have already stolen $1 billion from banks across the world. Here's what banks should know about how the hackers did it — and what institutions can do to protect themselves.

Mangopay's expansion to London is off to a fast start, as the payments technology company has already reached a deal with Liftshare, the U.K.'s largest car sharing community.

It would have to be a payments network's worst nightmare — shutting down because of technical problems during its merchants' busy Valentine's Day weekend.

Many mobile payment companies in this space have had their struggles. Amazon most recently joined the club with the abandonment of its six-month old mobile wallet. The Amazon Wallet was launched in July 2014 and was sold pre-installed on the Fire smartphone.

A joint venture formed by Norway's three dominant mobile phone carriers is testing a new, rebranded version of its mobile wallet, designed to lower the barriers merchants and consumers face when first using a mobile phone for payments.

The theft of 80 million healthcare records will cost Anthem Blue Cross more than $100-million, and payment companies are also under threat since the incident may result in a spike in false card accounts.

MasterCard is testing whether the time is finally right for biometric authentication to take over as the standard of customer-facing security.

Bankers, technology CEOs and President Obama are throwing everything they have at countering the growing threat of cyber attacks, putting their faith in biometrics, tokenization and data sharing. But it's far from clear that it will be enough.

Apple isn't the only device maker with its own mobile wallet. Though Samsung hasn't launched anything like Apple Pay, every year Samsung has added new technology to its smartphones and wearables to piece together the elements of a true mobile wallet.