Apple will be ready to accept Near Field Communication payments from phones in its stores, even though none of its consumer devices support NFC out of the box.

Ecopayz launched a private, online application designed for travel payments.

Square has removed its cloud-based Wallet app from the Apple iTunes and Google Play stores, apparently to make room for a new app called Square Order.

BMO's changes to how it organizes treasury and corporate payments can help it streamline client sales and payments product bundling.

Over the course of the NACHA Payments Annual conference, ACI conducted a survey to capture the sentiment of our industry experts and practitioners on hot topics impacting the payments ecosystem. We included mobile payments and real-time ACH, the latter of which generated interesting feedback and spirited discussion that was both insightful and directionally important to where we are headed as an industry.

Swedish mobile payment company iZettle has raised $55 million (€40 million) in Series C funding to expand its operations.

Contactless payment cards may never have had strong footing in the U.S. to begin with, but perhaps the biggest sign of the technology's downfall is JPMorgan Chase's admission that its Blink cards never quite caught on.

The car phone may be a relic of a bygone era, but more automobile and parking companies are looking for ways to put the mobile phone back in the driver's seat. And in many cases, payments are making the connection.

When more U.S. issuers and merchants start using EMV-chip cards to improve security at the point of sale, fraud will likely surge online.

The explosion of startups developing payment tools hasn't ceased, and simple consumer mobile wallets are starting to make way for products suitable for large corporations.

HOUSTON — Teaching financial literacy to kids? There's an app for that and it's one of the three finalists for this year's CO-OP THINK Prize.

NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — A concept intended to serve as "a sustainably innovative solution" to the ever-expanding mobile banking landscape has been selected as one of this year's three finalists for the CO-OP THINK Prize.

CHICAGO — A customizable website to help credit unions promote financial education made the final three at this year's CO-OP THINK Prize.

Longtime friends and business partners Alex Charfen and Price Givens have formally launched BitcoinWallet.com, which they plan to market as a social, consumer-friendly and transparent digital currency wallet.

Host Card Emulation, which enables Near Field Communication payments without accessing a smartphone's secure element, has major supporters like Google, Visa and MasterCard. But some are expressing concern over the technology's approach to security.

Citigroup customers who use its ThankYou Rewards program now have the option to use the points they earn to pay bills through the bank's online bill pay system.

NCR Corp. has integrated its NCR Silver iPad point of sale system with Retail Intel, a cloud-based service provider that can pull in sales data from QuickBooks.

Mobile billing provider Boku Inc. is expanding its reach into 14 new countries in Europe through a new agreement with Deutsche Telekom.

When more U.S. issuers and merchants start using EMV-chip cards to improve security at the point of sale, fraud will likely surge online.

MasterCard plans to launch au Wallet, a prepaid card program that will be available to subscribers of Japanese mobile operator KDDI's au-brand mobile network.