China appears embedded in a competitive battle between state-run banks and such large Internet companies as Alibaba over control of the nation’s mobile-payments market. Regulators...
The payments and banking industries are making progress in getting more U.S. consumers to use their mobile devices to access bank and card-account information, a...
Discover Financial Services has a long history of trying to do things differently, starting out with the Cashback Bonus for card transactions and no annual...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which made a name for itself in the payments industry almost two decades ago when it led a class-action lawsuit challenging the...
Two-year old software company Index, founded by former Google Wallet engineer Jonathan Wall and product lead Marc Freed-Finnegan, is focused on the physical world of...
Near Field Communication growth received a shot in the arm when Google last fall introduced Host Card Emulation (HCE) in its latest mobile operating system....
Several startups, including one led by astrophysicists, and a database-delivery provider highlight this week’s Startup Roundup.