Mobile Payments

Both Apple and Google are engaged in conversations with mobile payments startup BOKU about a potential acquisition or a wide-reaching partnership at the very least, we've heard from people familiar with the talks, which...

CashEdge and Firethorn say that the companies have entered into a strategic relationship to bring to market an integrated mobile person-to-person (P2P) payments solution integrating CashEdge's POPmoney P2P payments service and Firethorn's Mobile Wallet...

Despite security experts warnings for years about security flaws around the SS7 (Signalling System 7), a protocol used by mobile networks to communicate with each other- hackers have finally accessed a back door and stolen money from German...

American Express has joined a $19 million funding round for m-payments outfit Payfone and formed an alliance with the start-up to build a mobile checkout service. New York-based Payfone offers a checkout and in-app payments...

According to Deloitte, the active base of fingerprint reader-equipped devices offering biometric security will top 1 billion for the first time in early 2017. Each sensor will be used, on average, 30 times a day,...

MasterCard has introduced a comprehensive roadmap focused on advancing the US electronic payments system. The roadmap, which includes the path for migration from magnetic stripe to EMV technology currently available on 'chip' cards, will serve...

MasterCard has announced the MasterCard Mobile Payments Gateway, a mobile payments processing platform that the company says "enables financial institutions and mobile network operators to deliver end-to-end mobile payments solutions through the MasterCard Worldwide...

New research by Juniper, analysing the mobile wallet market, indicates Europe lagging behind almost every other region in its transaction value forecast despite high levels of tech adoption and smartphone penetration. So, what’s going wrong? Europe is expected to book...

MasterCard plans to buy European payment provider DataCash for $520 million, according to a report. The move is just the latest indication of how hot the e-commerce space has become. The move is expected to...

Making government payments while on the go just got easier, thanks to a new mobile web site for Arkansas.gov. With the launch of http://arkansas.gov/m, Arkansas is the first state in the US to provide...