Payments are proving to be an enticing use case for wearable computing, drawing the attention of companies as varied as amusement parks, banks and phone manufacturers.

Merchants are enticed by the lure of the huge e-commerce market in China, enough to give a number of early client wins to Alipay's U.S. merchant acquisition effort.

Home Depot Inc., which suffered a data breach between April and September, said 53 million e-mail addresses were taken by hackers during the attack, in addition to the 56 million payment cards that were previously disclosed.

Every day, debt collectors deal with people who have found themselves in tough and sensitive financial situations.

The much-anticipated launch of Apple's mobile wallet was followed by a series of minor disasters for the fledgling payment system. Apple must overcome all of these obstacles if Apple Pay is to succeed.

U.S. Bank, which has been aggressively building business payments technology, is adding Viewpost’s electronic invoice and payment network to the bank's website.

Soltra Edge promises to let financial institutions react to cyberthreats in milliseconds — without human intervention — by translating bankers' warnings from plain English into a format that security software can read.

Seeking to help its clients benefit from consumers who increasingly shop online or through mobile devices, GoDaddy Operating Co. LLC has launched its online store product for small businesses.

Online remittance provider WorldRemit is now offering its service in 15 Latin American markets, saying it is the company's largest expansion to date.

As the mobile point of sale market matures, more merchants will migrate from smartphones to tablets, which Roam's Scott Holt said requires device-specific changes in design and technology.

Consumers throughout the U.S. are embracing online shopping, shifting a significant portion of their purchases from retail stores to the web at an ever-increasing pace.

As banks struggle to make sense of their wealth of customer information, the burgeoning industry of online marketplace lending is finding novel ways to glean insights from unconventional data points.

Fans who attend Brooklyn Nets games at the Barclays Center can pay for game-day purchases with their smartphones.

Apple Pay's NFC-based mobile pay system doesn't automatically equate to a marriage between the retailers' point of sale and the contactless communication technology.

Even though the payments industry earlier this year put an end to the debate over how to comply with a federal mandate for routing EMV debit transactions, the technology still isn't widely available.

Business payments often lag consumer transactions in adopting automation, and software provider Kofax and Visa are teaming in attempt to shed manual corporate cash flow processes in the Asia Pacific region.

Remittance provider TelUPay is relying a local ATM network to reach the substantial remittance payments market in Indonesia.

In the payments security industry, tokenization initiatives have started to emerge, which would have important ramifications for retailers if they were to take off.

As payments leave plastic behind, the pressure is on banks to stay in front of merchants and consumers. But in its pilots of payment-capable wristbands, Royal Bank of Canada is finding that there are some areas that banks should steer clear of.

Safaricom Ltd., East Africa's biggest mobile operator, is bracing for competition in its key mobile-money business that helped boost first-half profit by 30 percent, Chief Executive Officer Bob Collymore said.