Say goodbye to the 16-digital credit card number. MasterCard today was awarded a patent for what it calls "variable length ...

Any time you see a market as large as Payments, entrepreneurs rush in. And Payments is undeniably a huge market. According to ...

Primary innovation is doing something that has never been done before. Most primary innovation is ridiculous and fails without anybody ...

Prepaid cards offer a significant opportunity to broaden product lines and modernize customer‐facing applications without massive changes to core processing ...

An influential trade group today warned traditional banks that prepaid is likely to be the future engine behind mobile wallets.

The clock is ticking on EMV adoption, but one bank, at least, is ready.

Capital One Financial Corp. is now offering its credit customers more information about their credit scores within the bank's mobile app. The ...

Jack Dorsey and Howard Schultz signing the Square-Starbucks agreement, August 2012. Starbucks yesterday unveiled a Tweet-a-Coffee program with Visa -- ...

What's in your wallet? (And what does your wallet say?) Capital One is known both for its card products and ...

Angry at the big banks? Maybe you want to pick up the Occupy Wall Street-branded prepaid debit card from the ...