David Sear will be leaving his post as chief executive of Weve Ltd. as soon as the London-based mobile commerce transitions to his successor, the company says.

Stripe is partnering with China's Alipay online payments service to streamline checkout for consumers in China who make purchases from Stripe's merchant clients.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — While some credit unions have rolled out employee biometric authentication systems for employees, the big question remains: When will a CU adopt fingerprint scanning as a member-facing technology?

Is misogynistic behavior keeping women out of the Bitcoin community?

It's the mortgage industry equivalent of driving five miles below the speed limit to avoid detection by Smokey's radar.

Jusp is adapting its business model to target larger clients for mobile payments. It added a service called Payments List that attaches to a business's back end, and it also allows the mobile point of sale service to work with Windows PCs.

Hundreds of thousands of people are in Brazil for the World Cup football tournament. While Brazil poses risks for payment crime, there are things payment companies and issuers can do to help their customers mitigate danger, such as communicating preventative measures.

Castle Rock's water utility has successfully launched a wide range of socially-driven alternative marketing techniques to spark adoption of its automated billing options.

By combining their payment and personal financial management technologies, Payveris and Geezeo are working to help banks fight the threat of nonbanks becoming consumers' preferred financial destination.

Nearly 20% of consumers worldwide lack confidence that their banks can protect them from payment card fraud, yet nearly half do things that potentially expose them to fraud, new research says.

LoopPay now offers an iPhone charging case that doubles as a mobile wallet.

In widely anticipated legislation on Bitcoin, Canada is regulating digital currency businesses under existing rules for money movement and California is updating its laws to legalize the use of alternative currencies.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Credit unions should partner with members to battle all the mobile banking attacks that will likely strike the United States following the first major mobile security threat to hit the nation earlier this month.

The Brazilian unit of PayPal Inc. is seeking to buy competitors to expand its business in Latin America's biggest economy.

Nearly 20% of consumers worldwide lack confidence that their banks can protect them from payment card fraud, yet nearly half do things that potentially expose them to fraud, new research says.

First Data is under pressure on a several fronts. While tasked with easing its debt, the Atlanta-based processor is also responding to the many disruptions brought by mobile technology and other innovations.

When people pay to use transportation, they're generating substantial data that's not being used to its full potential, says Phil Silver, director of business development for Urban Insights.

Philip W. Tomlinson, CEO of Total Systems Services (TSYS), will retire on July 31. He will be succeeded by M. Troy Woods, the company's president and COO.

Mobile payments technology provider SimplyTapp is opening its developer platform to allow card issuers and mobile app developers to quickly integrate Host Card Emulation, a technology that simulates a Near Field Communication contactless payment.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday warned banks and other financial institutions to stop helping scam artists defraud consumers.