Bailey Reutzel

In the crowded mobile point of sale market, One Step Retail Solutions is making a name for itself by providing its Teamwork Retail software to rap artist Jay-Z for his Rocawear clothing stores.

Onebip, a mobile bill payment company owned by Neomobile, launched an IP billing system in Turkey, allowing consumers to pay for online purchases through their broadband bill.

MasterCard Inc., in a conference call today to discuss the European Commission's proposal to cut card fees paid by retailers, says it supports increasing competition but warns the proposed regulation could have unintended consequences.

After forging new partnerships, MoneyGram International Inc.'s revenue rose 11%, to $365.1 million, in the second quarter from a year earlier.

To combat the billions of dollars consumers lose in “gray charges,” or charges they are misled into paying, BillGuard has released an iOS mobile app.

Groupon has modified its Breadcrumb POS mobile payments app to allow it to handle payments even when the wireless signal cuts out. It was no easy feat.

U.K.-based mobile point of sale company iZettle now charges a range of 1.5% to 2.75% based on the merchant client's monthly volume.

Medical bills are often confusing to patients, and this confusion can delay their payments. Patientco is one of several providers aiming to add clarity for the patient and the health care biller alike.

American Express Co. will be discontinuing its Deals and Offers program on the Serve digital wallet on August 12.

Check, a mobile financial management and bill payment provider, is working with the Desert Water Agency in Palm Springs, Calif., to allow residents to pay their utility bills from its smartphone app.

While independent sales organizations stringently keep up their compliance with the Payment Card Industry data security standard, they don't always protect non-payments data and paper records as diligently.

Zapp, a new company allowing consumers to link their mobile phone numbers to their bank account to make peer-to-peer payments, announced its system will be built on Oracle technology.

Prepaid card and technology provider InComm has launched an in-store digital sales program, allowing consumers to buy digital gift cards and other virtual items alongside physical ones at brick-and-mortar merchant locations.

Kipochi, an African online service launched this month, is looking for a way to connect the digital currency Bitcoin to M-Pesa, Kenya's widely-used mobile payments system.

Dubbed the "Athens of America" because it's rife with colleges and universities in the area, Boston is becoming a hub for tech startups as recent grads — and even dropouts — bring fresh perspective to the payments industry.

CloudPassage, a cloud infrastructure security provider, is offering to address Payment Card Industry security standard compliance for cloud-based businesses.

"Bitcoin." Just mentioning the digital currency brings about either a passionate discussion by enthusiasts or vehement criticism that near-anonymous payments are for criminals. In the following interview, serial tech entrepreneur Andreas Antonopoulos talks about the digital currency's rise to fame and the consequences of its popularity.

Seeing coins as dead weight in payments, a startup called Coinvenience is designing a system to allow consumers to reject loose change by instructing retailers to deposit the leftover coins into a stored-value account at the point of sale.

The mobile billing company Boku and entertainment giant Sony now allow consumers in the U.K. to purchase content from Sony's PlayStation Store by adding the charges to their mobile phone accounts.

Braintree, a six-year-old payment processor, says it now handles $10 billion in annual transactions. The milestone comes as the company is steadily growing its international customer base, most recently with the addition of Mojang, the Sweden-based maker of games like Minecraft and Scrolls.