TransCard and FamZoo will jointly develop United Family Banking, an educational prepaid card designed for families.

While some call Bitcoin an "existential threat to the state," local governments could soon embrace the digital currency and payment system as a practical alternative to credit and debit cards.

San Francisco, Calif.-based startup Balanced says it is gaining traction with online marketplaces, the eBay-like venues where small merchants gather to sell products and services online.

McDonalds' foray into mobile debit in Canada is helping spark a national expansion that includes broader adoption of the technology by issuers and merchants.

Coinbase, a startup that helps merchants accept the digital currency Bitcoin, apologized Friday for a lapse that resulted in customers' email addresses being publicly displayed.

There will be significant growth in mobile payments over the next five years, Javelin Strategy & Research predicts, but most people still don't make payments with their mobile phones today.

The United States has long resisted adopting the EMV smart-card standard to replace magnetic-stripe credit and debit cards. But the card networks report success in the years-long push to modernize plastic payments.

Milan-based mobile point-of-sale startup Jusp has secured $6 million in an initial round of funding for its chip-and-PIN mobile card reader, which it plans to launch in Italy.

Baseball players are told from an early age to keep our eye on the ball. In credit card banking, we should be told to keep our eye on the "spend."

PXT Payments, which operates the mobile payments and rewards app "looped in," is partnering with Boston College-based startup Jebbit for a student-focused marketing program that combines mobile payments and gaming.

Seattle-based iKaaz LLC figures the best way to make contactless Near Field Communication payments truly mobile is to create a reader that turns mobile phones into point of sale terminals.

The Canadian government has hired BMO to provide integrated travel and expense management services, in partnership with MasterCard and corporate services provider HRG.

With each career move, Kevin McInturff has strayed farther from the mainstream payments business to work on products that are increasingly experimental and niche.

Walletini is one of a small but growing group of mobile-wallet apps that integrates with Apple's Passbook while also trying to upstage it with an escrow-like service for ticket sales.

The ongoing adoption of the EMV chip-card standard in the U.S. means credit and debit card issuers will have to consider new factors to offer the cards at their branches.

PONTIAC, Mich. – Genisys CU rolled out its mobile banking app for Android devices, with the assistance of Ann Arbor-based Logic Solutions.

When Colonel Harland Sanders created the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in 1955, he couldn't possibly envision how customers in Europe would pay for his fried chicken in 2013. Many will soon use a KFC mobile wallet to feed their fried-chicken cravings.

Independent sales organization Calpian says its Indian unit's Money-on-Mobile service surpassed 130,000 retail locations at the end of March, up from 126,000 at the end of February.

Land O'Lakes, the second largest agricultural co-operative in the U.S., is adopting BillTrust's electronic billing services as an alternative to paper invoices.

The Federal Trade Commission has warned the operators of six Web sites that share information about consumers’ rental histories with landlords that they may be subject to Fair Credit Reporting Act requirements.