In buying Venmo for $26.2 million, Braintree plans to bring its one-click shopping experience to the startup's mobile wallet.

The rumor mill is catching fire as Apple nears its next product launch. Changes to the iPhone, iPad and other systems could affect initiatives at many payments companies.

Dunkin' Donuts likes to brag that its coffee beats Starbucks in a national taste test. Now it aims to beat its rival in mobile payments as well.

The the Long Island Railroad and the Metro-North Rail Road in New York are running trials that will allow customers to redeem fare purchases with the scan of a bar code.

In a week's time, the mobile payments world was turned upside down as Square announced a major partnership with Starbucks and a radically different pricing option for merchants. Now payments providers are beginning to piece together how they can ride this wave instead of getting crushed underneath it.

Analytics and decision management technology provider Fair Isaac Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Adeptra Ltd., a leader in cloud-based customer engagement and risk-intervention services.

Discover Financial Services now allows consumers to link Discover cards to Google's mobile wallet from Discover's website.

Square is taking a bigger bite at the small-business market by offering flat-fee processing to small merchants, furthering the company's efforts to present itself as a more full-featured option for card acceptance.

Discover Financial Services is facing a new lawsuit over the marketing of its payment protection and other fee-based credit card products — this time from one of its own shareholders.

ID Tech, a supplier of point-of-sale devices, has agreed to begin outfitting its SecureMag readers with TransArmor data encryption and tokenization from First Data.

It didn't take long for Jumio to release a new version of its Netswipe mobile software-development kit.

Sionic Mobile, an Atlanta-based start-up that in June launched a mobile merchant-loyalty initiative in that city, is providing extra reward points to consumers to get them to use a Dwolla account for their spending.

Pundits often criticize prepaid card providers for having high monthly fees, but the real market pressure is on the fees charged for ATM access. As it turns out, prepaid card users very much want to keep using cash — but they don't want to pay to get it.

In a play to develop a mobile wallet of their own, a joint venture of retailers is working to attract banks to help it provide a merchant-friendly alternative to Isis, PayPal and Google Wallet.

LIVE OAK, Texas – The $5-billion Randolph-Brooks FCU here has signed a multi-year deal to implement Online Resources Corp.’s Architect Digital Banking Solution.

BOSTON – Credit unions’ investments in technology are paying off, as CUs are closing the gap with larger banks when it comes to online convenience, a new study indicates.

Hackers seeking cardholder data most often find openings in a small merchant's payments network because of something a third-party vendor did or did not do when installing payment applications.

As more consumers try out Fiserv's person-to-person payment service, Popmoney, the tool is evolving to become as much a social tool as a payments one.

Six federal financial regulatory agencies Wednesday issued a proposed rule to establish new appraisal requirements for higher-risk mortgage loans.

The worst drought to hit the Midwest in more than 20 years is forcing bankers to make tough calls on how to handle delinquent agricultural loans.