Portfolios of independent sales organizations are bought and sold with fair regularity, but a deal that closed as 2016 dawned begged notice because of who the seller was. Merchant processor First American Payment Systems L.P. bought the ISO portfolio of Chase Commerce Solutions, the merchant-acquiring and payment-processing unit of banking …

The other day, I received a call from a financial institution whose board had directed management to pursue a mobile-payment solution. Management, however, thought that a different approach was more appropriate for the customer. Later, it struck me that our discussion could be a primer that other institutions might use …

Portfolios of independent sales organizations are bought and sold with fair regularity, but a deal that closed as 2016 dawned begged notice because of who the seller was. Merchant processor First American Payment Systems L.P. bought the ISO portfolio of Chase Commerce Solutions, the merchant-acquiring and payment-processing unit of banking …

The other day, I received a call from a financial institution whose board had directed management to pursue a mobile-payment solution. Management, however, thought that a different approach was more appropriate for the customer. Later, it struck me that our discussion could be a primer that other institutions might use …

E-commerce processor Adyen Inc. announced on Thursday it is now offering payments capability for physical stores in the United States, a move that follows the company’s success in providing a payments gateway for a number of prominent digital clients, including Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix. Also on Thursday, ATM maker …

Consumers using mobile-banking sites or apps make only sporadic use of their ability to pay bills, send money to other individuals, or load a prepaid card, finds new research from Javelin LLC, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based payments-research firm. In the “2015 Mobile Banking, Smartphone, and Tablet Forecast” released Tuesday, Javelin found …

Merchant processor First American Payment Systems L.P. on Thursday reported that it bought the independent sales organization portfolio of Chase Commerce Solutions, the merchant-acquiring and payment-processing unit of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. Neither company would disclose the purchase price or the number of ISOs and merchants involved in the …

If history is any guide, card-not-present fraud will spike now that EMV has officially arrived in the United States. Can a growing array of fraud-prevention technologies stem the tide? When it comes to plying their deceptive trade, fraudsters exploit the weakest link in the security chain. With the EMV chip …

What do industry leaders foresee for 2016? Many feel the number of announcements will level off, but there will be a few big, even game-changing, ones. Drew Luca, a partner at PwC, feels we will see mobile-payments companies undergoing the industry consolidation and interoperability that is necessary to fulfill the …

The low cost and convenience of peer-to-peer payments may be ready to cannibalize a portion of the traditional wire-transfer market, according to a new report from Javelin Strategy & Research. The report also finds that mobile P2P is important to all consumers, not just Millennials, often considered the most likely …