First Data Corp. on Friday said it is joining the market for card readers that plug into mobile phones. Its latest entry in its Clover line of point-of-sale technology is Clover Go, a credit and debit ...

With the arrival of Apple Pay and, more recently, Android Pay, consumers are becoming more comfortable with alternative ways of paying that don’t involve credit card swipes. And now, with the U.S.’s ...

Shopify Inc. is often thought of as a platform for smaller e-commerce merchants, but it offers processing services for some 65,000 physical-world sellers, as well, and on Thursday it unveiled a new ...

There are now billions of EMV-enabled cards in the world, but they are not foolproof and can be made more secure through new authentication technologies. In most retailers today, customers don’t swipe ...

My post on 'should we have chip only payment cards?' gave rise to some discussion and debate, and many thanks to all those concerned for their views and comments. The related website poll conducted by ...

MasterCard International has released its OneSMART PayPass, an EMV-based smart card featuring the M/Chip that will “enable customers in regions where EMV smart cards predominate, such as Europe, to ...

KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom) is to use Bell ID's Andis Management Systems software to develop multi-application smart cards. Netherlands-based Bell ID says its system will be integrated ...