The electronic-payments industry can expect the well-established consumer shift away from credit cards and toward debit and prepaid cards to continue in today's turbulent economic climate, but other changes are afoot as the financial landscape rapidly changes, according to Maynard, Mass-based Mercator Advisory Group Inc. Some of the most significant …

Banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. and processor First Data Corp. said on Monday they have completed the previously announced split-up of their joint venture called Chase Paymentech Solutions, the world's largest merchant acquirer. The bank-owned Chase Paymentech will focus on alternative payments and geographic expansion with its 51% share …

Debit cards have been growing faster than credit cards for years now in the United States, but they'll be more important than ever for Visa Inc.'s growth in the near term as wary banks rein in lending. With the weakening economy, what had been slow credit card payment growth went …

In the hunt for a trustworthy partner, a prepaid card issuer and payment card network probably couldn't do better than the Better Business Bureau. That's the theory, at least, behind the new MasterCard-branded TrustCard, a payroll card issued by Palm Desert National Bank that initially is being offered by the …

While remote deposit capture continues to be one of the fastest-growing electronic payments products ever introduced, banks are still far too conservative in the way they sell the service, says Bob Meara, a senior analyst at Boston-based researcher Celent LLC. That could change soon, though, as resellers such as independent …

The Western Union Co. has found out that worsening economic conditions in the United States can take a toll on seemingly sure-fire high-growth products like electronic bill payments. Western Union's third-quarter earnings report out on Tuesday shows that consumer-to-business, or bill-pay, revenues and operating income are down 2% and 10% …

Many studies have documented the rise of card, automated clearing house, and other forms of electronic payments, but a new one from Hitachi Consulting and the Bank Administration Institute sheds some light on just how consumers divide their payments behavior. According to the nationwide study of 3,308 consumers who completed …

So-called stickers, or chip-and-antenna inlays that can be affixed to mobile phones or other tokens to turn them into contactless-payment devices, are showing signs of developing from a novelty to a commercial product. CPI Card Group, a card manufacturer in Littleton, Colo., expects to ship “several million” bank-card-branded payment stickers …

In praising online credit payment system Bill Me Later Inc. Monday morning, PayPal Inc. President Scott Thompson called Bill Me Later a “disruptive business” in the positive sense, and he credited PayPal for also being a disruptive payments player. And disruption of the status quo is quite possible with today's …

Yet another bill-payment study is out, and this one not surprisingly predicts electronic channels will continue displacing mail and other forms of manual payment. More surprising is how soon electronic payments will surpass physical forms of payment: next year, according to Aite Group LLC. Aite forecasts consumers will make 10.2 …