Bailey Reutzel

The team behind Bump Technologies has become a part of Google, a move that could potentially combine both companies' payments initiatives.

Kiind, a business-to-business rewards startup, is the latest to offer a gift card platform in which senders don't pay for the gift until the recipient uses it.

When Shae Whitney was selling bitters at farmer's markets for a year and a half, she used Square's mobile card reader to accept payments. But when she opened a retail location with her partner in June, she switched to Groupon's iPad-based point of sale system, Breadcrumb.

An antitrust complaint against Visa and MasterCard will continue, prolonging the eight-year battle, after both proponents and defendants were heard during the fairness hearing Sept. 12.

The antitrust complaint against Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. will continue, prolonging the eight-year battle, after both proponents and defendants were heard during the fairness hearing Sept. 12.

Atlanta, Ga.-based Cardlytics Inc. plans to support location-based card-linked marketing with push notifications in the first quarter of 2014.

Versafe doesn't trust consumers to take the necessary precautions to protect their devices. So the company built a fraud protection layer within its banking application to take matters out of users' hands.

DoubleBeam is using electronic checks in its mobile payment system to cut merchants' costs on interchange.

Bank technology vendor Yodlee has a new mobile and Web app called Tandem that allows consumers to manage their personal relationships and the financial obligations that go along with those relationships.

SavedPlus has launched a platform that encourages consumers to save a small amount of money every time they make a payment.

Mitek Systems is offering financial institutions a mobile photo account opening feature, using a mobile device's camera to scan and capture any needed documentation. The software also lets the customer immediately fund the account using mobile check capture.

Paydiant, a cloud-based mobile wallet provider, announced a $15 million Series C round of funding led by one of its customers to speed up product development, marketing and sales.

Buttercoin wanted to be a Bitcoin exchange, but after being discouraged or outright rejected by over 76 financial institutions, it chose a different path.

MoneyGram is further expanding its funds transfer services internationally by partnering with DenizBank, a Turkish private bank.

ZooZ, a provider of mobile payments technology is launching a checkout system based on HTML5, the latest version of the HTML markup language used in desktop and mobile websites.

Since its founding six years ago, Braintree has grown its annual processing volume to $10 billion a year — including more than $2 billion from mobile transactions — which could make the Chicago-based payments processor an attractive addition to a number of companies.

Consumers in Spain will be able to make mobile payments using Vodafone SmartPass, a Near Field Communication-enabled mobile wallet, in partnership with Visa.

Instant-issue cards may seem like old news, but if Centier Bank's recent implementation of EFT Source Inc.'s platform is any indication, the technology is still helping banks increase transactions and interchange revenue, while lowering card production costs.

Monitise is offering its payments and mobile banking products to more than 2,600 credit unions through a partnership with Card Services for Credit Unions, a credit union card processing and payment services association.

Braintree is viewing consumer purchasing behavior at multiple merchants to improve fraud mitigation.