Visa Inc. has launched Visa Consumer Transaction Controls, a service that lets Visa-card issuing institutions offer cardholders the ability to set transaction limits with their credit, debit, and prepaid cards. Visa says it works with more than 14,000 financial institutions, but does not provide a U.S.-specific total. Announced Tuesday, the …

It’s common for consumers who use a recurring service to designate a credit or debit card that the service provider can charge each month. With the automated clearing house, this is much less common. Dwolla Inc. says that’s because it’s too difficult and time-consuming for most businesses to set up …

The introduction of cardless ATMs, which rely on a financial institution’s mobile wallet instead of a debit card to make an ATM withdrawal, could help further the adoption of mobile wallets and mobile payments. That’s the assessment of Jerimy Saldivar at Peoples Bank, a Bellingham, Wash.-based financial institution with 24 …

E-commerce processor Adyen Inc. announced last month 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. Adyen, a Netherlands-based company with …

For years merchants have sought ways to market to customers on a personal level and drive in-store sales in real time. Is beacon technology the answer? There’s been a lot buzz lately around the use of mobile beacons in merchant locations to drive sales, and with good reason. With smart …

  Card-not-present fraud isn’t the only looming threat for payments providers and merchants. Account-takeover losses are also set to take off. As criminals find it easy and affordable to use the Internet to obtain millions of pieces of personally identifiable information about consumers, the prospects of greater fraud overall are …

  New rules coming from the CFPB and other regulators will likely lead to exits and consolidation among players, says Ben Jackson. It’s February, and by the end of the first quarter the rules of the prepaid game likely will change. Looming regulations at both the federal and state level …

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 …

Sweden’s online-payments firm Klarna started operations in the United States only five months ago, but already it is making itself felt in the highly competitive business of serving U.S. e-commerce merchants. By early January, nearly 20 retailers had signed up for the company’s streamlined checkout service, including big sellers Overstock.com …