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 …

The question is, how to replace it with something more secure? One promising avenue lies in a standard developed by tech companies that belong to the FIDO Alliance. Since the birth of the personal computer, consumers have held tight to the belief that user names and passwords are secure. Those …

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 …

Who among us hasn’t, at one time or another, sat in abject frustration as a Web site demanded a user name and password that we simply can’t recall. Most of the time, the information we’re trying to access isn’t crucial, so we can simply move on to something else. But …

For almost three decades, the Internet evolved in stealth until it exploded on the public scene and changed everything. Right now, something called “The Internet of Things” is being hatched in geeknests around the world, and it will change everything—again! Sixty billion “things” are projected to combine into a network …

• Mobile-ticketing platform Atom Tickets announced its app now works with 200 more theaters in 40 new markets across the country, including San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Ore., Denver, and Sacramento. Partners include AMC Theaters, Regal Cinemas, and Studio Movie Grill. • In related news, mobile-ticketing specialist ExtremeTix Inc. introduced a …

By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews Mobile wallets eventually will get the contactless terminals and other infrastructure they need to attract consumers, according to an executive with Alphabet Inc.’s Android Pay. Their ultimate success, however, will depend on the value they offer merchants and consumers. “It’s still all about value creation,” Jack Connors, …

• The clearXchange peer-to-peer payments network will be renamed Zelle, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The service is operated by Early Warning Services LLC, which is owned by some of the nation’s biggest banks. • Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. marked the first anniversary of its Samsung …

By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Chip-on-chip transaction volume continues to rise as the United States payments industry nears the one-year mark since the Oct. 1, 2015, liability shift, totaling 554.8 million in July, a 26% increase from 440.1 million in May, Visa Inc. announced Tuesday. Since November, Visa’s chip-on-chip transactions have more …

• Paytronix Systems Inc., a provider of loyalty solutions to restaurants and retailers, announced it has added a mobile pay-at-table capability for eateries that includes the ability to redeem rewards. • In related news, terminal maker Ingenico Group teamed with middleware vendor Datacap Systems to install a pay-at-table system based …