Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., will accept Apple Pay as a companion to its own contactless payment cards and wristbands.

The fast food chain Chick-fil-A has confirmed that it was the victim of a recent data breach.

The fast food chain Chick-fil-A has confirmed that it was the victim of a recent data breach.

Capital One plans to take advantage of two major marketing initiatives — its support of Apple Pay and sponsorship of the Orange Bowl – to give its bank-branded mobile wallet a boost.

As payments providers shore up their security, using tokenization on top of biometrics on top of encryption, will there be a need for merchants to manage fraud on a per-transaction basis?

As new technology such as Apple Pay spark fresh interest in using smartphones for payments, many card issuers are striving to make the most of this enthusiasm. But for banks, the end goal isn't the point of sale.

When you are a company that started out 125 years ago as National Cash Register, you've had to reinvent yourself a few times.

The cash register company turned ATM maker purchased online and mobile banking provider Digital Insight to better compete in digital banking and to let banks offer customers seamless interactions between channels.

As computing devices get closer to the body and more Internet-connected, payment platforms will have to be flexible enough to work in a vast number of environments, according to PayPal's Joel Yarbrough.

The City of New York intends to develop mobile payment options for those paying fines for parking violations.

Chevron Oil Co. is planning to support Apple Pay at its gas pumps in early 2015, despite longstanding fears among consumers that using a cell phone while fueling is a fire hazard.

Could technology bring order to the Wild West of collections?

Some bankers are worrying that when retailers are no longer such fruitful targets, the hackers will redouble their efforts to break into banks.

2014 was an eventful year for the payments industry. Apple Pay launched, bringing legitimacy to NFC and much attention to mobile POS.

Apple Pay's October debut was arguably the biggest story in mobile payments in 2014. But it's only the prologue of a larger conflict set to heat up in the year ahead.

The digital currency movement is headed into 2015 still looking for a "killer app" to pull Bitcoin out of obscurity. Mixing Bitcoin's technology with the virality of social media could be the winning ticket.

CheckAlt has added electronic check payments as an option for consumers purchasing gift cards through CardCash.com.

Square is committed to its diversification strategy, furthering its transformation from a simple mobile point of sale provider to a company that also handles small-business loans, marketing and e-commerce.

Like many large retailers fighting the card networks over interchange fees, Google Inc. opted out of a $5.7 billion settlement in the 2013 class-action lawsuit against Visa and MasterCard.

Credit Karma has begun offering on-demand access to credit reports from Equifax.