Mobile carriers are becoming more heavily involved in the payments world. Many are spearheading tests and full deployments of mobile wallets throughout the world, and some like T-Mobile are launching prepaid cards as well.

Incipio's Cashwrap sleeve for Apple iPhones, announced a year ago as a companion to the Isis mobile wallet, will soon be available for purchase at AT&T company-owned stores.

Retailers are letting Congress know they support federal efforts to thwart cybercrime, while voicing their support of chip-based EMV smartcards combined with PIN authentication as a defense against future breaches.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. -- The Target data breach has financial institutions focused on payments and considering their options to fight cyber crime.

WASHINGTON — The spotlight on massive credit card breaches at retailers has again prompted lawmakers to consider data security reform, but whether a bill will actually move through Congress is still a huge question mark.

BOSTON -- Credit and debit cards have made cash virtually obsolete in some markets. Could biometric technology someday do the same to plastic?

A diverse group of entrepreneurs is trying to solve a riddle that may hold the key to Bitcoin and other digital currency moving into the mainstream: how to insure accounts.

Finnish bank OP-Pohjola has introduced a mobile point of sale system designed to help consumers take advantage of local tax breaks.

Nearly 10 million Starbucks customers use its mobile app to make payments, totaling close to 5 million mobile payments a week, the company reports.

Discover Financial Services rode credit card loan growth in the fourth quarter to earnings of $602 million, an increase of nearly 12% over the same period in 2012.

Paydiant has received a patent covering technology that allows consumers to withdraw cash out of ATMs with their smartphones, a feature that it says should appeal to banks.

Stripe has raised $80 million in a new round of funding and is reportedly working on a payments deal with Twitter.

Major bank and retail card issuers are lacking in key security areas, according to a new study from Javelin Strategy and Research.

Coinmkt, a digital currency exchange based in Los Angeles, has opened an account with E-Trade to allow users to deposit U.S. dollars into the exchange as wire transfers from U.S. bank accounts.

Neiman Marcus Group Ltd., the luxury retailer, said about 1.1 million credit cards may have been compromised in a data breach that occurred last year.

Vienna-based prepaid payment provider paysafecard has updated its mobile app to include augmented reality, a technology that displays data over a view of the physical world.

Payment service provider EVO Payments is partnering with fraud prevention company ReD to provide integrated fraud prevention to EVO's e-commerce merchants.

Swedish mobile point of sale company iZettle has launched a software development kit (SDK) to allow other companies to leverage iZettle's technology to build payments services.

Mobile shopping provider Airtag has developed a mobile wallet service for international grocery chain Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentacion SA, allowing customers to order and pay for groceries prior to pickup.

EBay CEO John Donahoe provided a glimpse into PayPal's ongoing strategy for mobile payments in defending his company's conclusion that it should not spin off the subsidiary.