While researching our latest report, “The Future of Payments & Currency,” we spoke with payments expert Deborah Baxley of Capgemini Financial Services. Baxley has consulted on strategy for payment companies...

into the promise and perils of cashless payments. While cashless and contactless payments increase convenience, their negative consequences include increased spending, poor decision making, and even untruthfulness, says Jaeha Yoo,...

Our recent report on the future of payments and currency spotlights the rise of biometric payments—using a unique physical characteristic to authenticate transactions—which promise to greatly improve security and help...

...X bPay, a range of accessories containing contactless payment technology. The range, which initially included items such as wristbands and stickers, received a sleek makeover in June 2016 with the...

The latest innovation in contactless payments may be a throwback: microchip-embedded wristwatches that enable small mobile payments. Watch2pay, which has adopted the tagline “Time is money,” uses MasterCard’s PayPass technology...

...Last year Disney started rolling out its NFC-enabled MagicBand, a wristband that lets Disney World attendees make contactless payments and acts as a park pass, among other things. Disney reports...

...technology into the bedroom. Via Dezeen. –Visa’s new contactless payment-enabled sunglasses will debut at the 2017 World Surf League competition. Via the Verge. –The “fourth industrial revolution,” an era of...

...reports that Barcelona is set to become one of Europe’s biggest adopters of contactless-payment cards and terminals. –Mashable looks at how the new domain registry options might affect brands. -China...