Can’t pay with a credit card online? Try charging the sale to an Internet service provider account, where the purchase will appear on the monthly broadband statement.

The Federal Trade Commission is asking the public to comment on the issues raised during a recent workshop exploring the use of facial recognition technology and the privacy and security implications raised by its increasing use.

Fifth Third Bank set an aggressive goal for bill-payment penetration among its online banking customers: a 40% increase in two years. To achieve this, the bank knew it would need to modify the service.

From the beginning, Asian countries have been ahead of the curve in testing and deploying mobile-payment systems.

With more business owners and information technology personnel accessing payments networks with smartphones and other mobile devices, Trustwave figured it was time to put up more walls of defense to keep out hackers.

The Reserve Bank of India has removed the daily limit on mobile transactions to help boost India’s mobile payments market.

A Canadian independent sales organization is offering its merchants a proprietary mobile-payment acceptance device that other Canadian ISOs also could sell.

A Northern Michigan gas-station owner wanted to give his cash-paying customers the freedom to fill their cars’ tanks first, then pay. But when dishonest drivers skipping the payment process became a problem, he decided to take a different approach.

Call eBay Inc.'s new acquisition the German version of Bill Me Later.

PayPal calls it a “very small test.” But what the eBay Inc. payments unit learns from the Near Field Communication initiative in Sweden could help with the company’s overall mobile-payments strategy to seek point-of-sale technologies that complement its cloud-based digital wallet.

EBay Inc. has acquired BillSafe, a provider of purchase-on-invoice technology in Germany, the online-auction provider announced Dec. 22.

The three top mobile operators in Japan have agreed to work together to plan out a roadmap for the adoption of multiple Near Field Communication technologies in the country.

The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against a telemarketing operation that allegedly made illegal robocalls, called phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry and violated the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule by masking Caller ID information.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander when it comes to credit card portfolio sales these days.

One-third of consumers have used mobile banking, but concerns regarding the security and privacy of the technology persist, new survey data suggest.

Coles Supermarkets is looking to get customers through its checkout lines faster through acceptance of contactless payments, Australia’s second-largest supermarket chain announced last week.

Eastern Europe gets a bad rap when it comes to payment card data security, but the region does not experience considerably more hacking-attack incidents than do other parts of the world. But it is a main source of such incidents, an industry analyst contends.

Myriad payments companies this year created presence on such social media sites as Facebook and Twitter. But while it was important to roll with the times, the effort may not help to create long-term loyal customers.

After conducting field tests with banks across such cities as Pune and Nasik, Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. now plans to do a nationwide rollout of its standalone, carrier agnostic mobile-payment service.

A Stanford University professor has filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission urging it to investigate Verizon Wireless’s blocking of Google Wallet on its new smartphone.