Consumers and merchants can count the seconds it takes to complete an EMV chip card transaction, and now payments provider Cayan LLC has quantified the total cost in hours: 116 million. That is Boston-based Cayan’s estimate of how much more time consumers will spend at the checkout completing EMV transactions …

• Apple Inc. said it is bringing its Apple Pay mobile-payments service to Japan with its new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smart phones, and Apple Watch Series 2. Apple Pay will work with Japan’s variant of near-field communication (NFC) contactless technology known as FeliCa. • The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial …

By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews Mobile-payments services have plenty of issues with adoption and usage, but battery fires aren’t likely to be among them. While it’s true that a consumer can’t use a mobile wallet if he’s afraid his smart phone will ignite, payments experts say the problem that developed last …

• JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it is now supporting Alphabet Inc.’s Android Pay mobile-payment service. Chase, which is in the process of launching its own mobile wallet, Chase Pay, has issued more than 90 million Visa cards. • In related news, Alphabet’s Google unit said it is making Android Pay …

By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews If misery loves company, then VeriFone Systems Inc. can make room for its arch-rival, France-based Ingenico Group. Ingenico reported Tuesday that a “sudden and significant” decline in U.S. EMV-related revenues, along with weak sales in Brazil, had forced it to lower its revenue and profit forecasts for …

• E-commerce services provider Digital River Inc. released a white paper, “The Subscriptions Generation,” which offers guidance for e-commerce decision-makers and product marketers considering online subscription-based business models. • The Western Union Co. announced it is offering free money transfers from agent locations in most countries to more than 450 agent …

“Selling boxes is an unpredictable thing,” Paul Galant, chief executive of VeriFone Systems Inc., told stock analysts Thursday afternoon. Seldom has that been truer for terminal kingpin VeriFone than now, when an unexpected slowdown in EMV adoption by small and medium-size merchants has cut into the company’s sales and hurt …

How EMV is fueling a new merchant-network fight over which electronic highways debit card transactions will travel. War has broken out again between big retailers and the bank card networks. Earlier courtroom fights involved everything from honor-all-cards rules to interchange to merchants’ attempts to steer customers away from high-cost credit …

Worldpay, WePay, and Stripe are among those viewed as attractive targets as the industry consolidates. Apparently, investors are not ready to put away their checkbooks when it comes to payments companies. Despite potential macro uncertainty stemming from the U.S. presidential election and the specter of the United Kingdom’s departure from …

With a few exceptions, mobile wallets have so far held scant allure for consumers. Why is that, and what could change it? Most mobile-wallet managers don’t like to talk about it, but their products have a consumer problem—in that people who have the necessary smart phones just aren’t all that …