Digital wallets

Samsung’s been pushing for government support for its blockchain and cryptocurrency technology for much of the past year, and early Galaxy S10 leaks suggest a built-in crypto wallet will be among the handset's planned features.

The news may seem overdue, but this isn't a story of two Goliaths battling it out. It's a tale of one Goliath beating multiple Davids — slowly, methodically, and one at a time.

Investors in a hurry can instantly add funds to a TD Ameritrade account through Apple Pay using the brokerage’s new messaging chatbot.

The battle between Apple Pay and the Swiss banks' payment app, TWINT, is nearing a conclusion with Apple agreeing to no longer interfere at the point of sale when a consumer is attempting to make a purchase with TWINT.

Mobile payments technology has fallen short of expectations in major markets, particularly the U.S., where less than 10 percent of consumers routinely use devices to pay in stores — despite more than four years of aggressive development from large technology companies and banks.

The turning point was Apple Pay, which Discover did not support until September of 2015, nearly a year after the mobile wallet's launch.

UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG are among a number of Swiss companies being investigated by the local antitrust authority over whether they boycotted international mobile payment services to promote a domestic competitor.

Apple’s decision to stop disclosing its mobile device sales — along with reports that the company's newest iPhone didn't draw the huge crowds Apple is known for — signal that it may lose the clout that allowed it to collect fees for Apple Pay.

Four years after introducing Apple Pay, the company is going neighborhood by neighborhood trying to get U.S. retailers and consumers to use the service—no easy task.

Less than a month after eBay dropped PayPal's status as its preferred payment provider and implemented a new payment process for some users, one in 10 of those users is completing purchases via Apple Pay.