Photo bill pay is supposed to make adding payees a snap for smartphone customers. But the feature faces some problems, including a lack of uniformity of the data on physical invoices and how consumers take the pictures.

Diebold is unveiling an anti-skimming card reader designed to prevent criminals from stealing card data from unsuspecting automated teller machine users.

Distributed denial of service attacks have grown larger in scale, more sophisticated and harder to detect, according to three large technology vendors that have recently published analyses of attacks.

Payments startups may be fast and smart, but banks have compliance know-how, an established customer base and physical branches that will help them hook customers on new products.

Diebold is unveiling an anti-skimming card reader designed to prevent criminals from stealing card data from unsuspecting automated teller machine users.

For most of the digital currency's existence, the price of a bitcoin has swung wildly. Coinapult is looking to remove this risk with the launch of Coinapult Locks, which pins the value of a user's bitcoin balance to a stable asset.

Since the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, lenders have all but stopped offering loans that sound too good to be true. But that's not the case with subprime automobile loans, which lenders continue to market aggressively to consumers with imperfect credit.

First Data is making a push into offline and online gambling payments processing, providing new services that cover a riskier set of transactions than those it already handles for businesses that operate casinos.

The NFC tattoo is far different from the inked lettering and designs many people have. It's even a stretch to call it a "tattoo" – despite the branding, it's really more of an adhesive bandage with a high-tech spin.

A Montreal-based laboratory for Fime has earned Visa's accreditation to perform tests for its contactless EMV payment specifications.

Apple Inc. has reinstated the Blockchain bitcoin wallet application to its App Store almost six months after booting the popular program.

Franklin University, a large private university in Ohio, will use ACI Worldwide to support the college's online tuition and fee payments plan.

If there's one lesson bankers and retailers can take away from the hacking incident at online ticket seller StubHub, it's that they need to educate their customers about the dangers of using the same passwords on multiple sites.

If there's one lesson bankers can take away from the hacking incident at online ticket seller StubHub, it's that they need to educate their customers about the dangers of using the same passwords on multiple sites.

Amazon.com, which just launched its own smartphone, may be nearing the launch of a mobile card reader that would work like Square's device, according to reports. Such a move would complement the company's many recent payment initiatives.

More consumers are skipping the mall and buying online instead. Many traditional retailers have already moved online to maximize their sales among customers who either don’t have access to their physical shops due to distance, or for whom shopping online is simply more convenient.

The credit union-driven CU Wallet is mindful that if it comes on too strong with its mobile-payment pitch, consumers will be turned off.

Apple has big plans for payments, but it's not outspoken about what they are. However, more of its behind-the-scenes efforts are starting to leak; these six reports came in just the past two months.

PayPal will support the new Amazon Fire phone, which went on sale this week, in the latest move by the eBay subsidiary to make sure it has an app for any newly launched mobile device.

Transport for London, the government agency in charge of city's rail and bus systems, plans to introduce contactless payments for rail customers in mid-September.