David Heun

The card brand is updating the Visa Checkout online payment platform with a new button that asks users to swipe, rather than click, to initiate a payment.

Verifone's presence in the mobile point of sale market is as old as Square's, but it has had a bit more trouble reaching Square's market. This year, Verifone's strategy will be to move the goalpost — and to chop it up into smaller segments.

Square is "betting big on Near Field Communication," but not to the point the company would consider bringing back its own Square Wallet app, CEO Jack Dorsey says.

The banks that launched the clearXchange P-to-P network two years ago sensed the urgency to get solid footing in the consumer payments market, but its mission rapidly expanded.

Obtaining money transmitter licenses in every state has been a lengthy process for WorldRemit, but one that paid off big this month when the company became regulated in California.

Even though it has had a presence in the market since 2014, Square Inc. has made its launch in Australia official as it begins to offer payment processing and sales of its mobile point of sale hardware and software.

In expanding Visa Token Service, the card brand is requiring issuers to stop using alternate personal account numbers in cloud-based mobile payments and instead converting to tokenization.

In explaining the bank's commitment to the Chase Pay mobile wallet, an executive told investors in February that the mobile payment landscape was going to get more complicated before it gets simpler.

Spanish bank BBVA has acquired Finnish startup Holvi, a licensed payment company specializing in developing digital accounts for small business owners.

Putting bank venture clearXchange's push for real-time person-to-person payments in motion, U.S. Bank says it is one of the first to make the service available to its customers.

A new Federal Reserve Bank report opens the door for retailer groups to push again for even lower transaction fees by deflating the argument that small banks have been harmed by the Durbin amendment's reduced debit transaction fees for larger banks.

Facebook's big plan for payments is, true to its core mission, to build its network of friends as much as possible.

New requirements and guidance from the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council will be released to merchants in April, which is about six months earlier than its normal update cycle.

In explaining JPMorgan Chase's commitment to the Chase Pay mobile wallet, Gordon Smith told investors in February that the mobile payment landscape was going to get more complicated before it gets simpler.

Google is launching its Hands Free Payments app in the South Bay region of the San Francisco area, making it available on a test run at some McDonald's, Papa John's and other local restaurants. The model somewhat resembles an approach attempted years ago by PayPal and Square.

German bank and payments provider Wirecard AG is issuing a new prepaid Visa card to consumers, calling it the first Simply One Visa product in the market to combine the functions of a traditional credit card with a V Pay debit card.

Merchants in Canada using Moneris Solutions Corp. for payment processing will soon have currency conversion capabilities when checking out customers.

The U.K.'s new MoneyGram Plus card seems at first like a standard loyalty card, but to MoneyGram it is a way to streamline the long and repetitive task of initiating a transfer through an agent.

The U.S. migration to EMV chip cards has been rough, according to U.K.-based Creditcall, which hopes its new certification from First Data can smooth things out.

Square Cash has changed a lot since it was introduced as an almost purely email-based person-to-person payments service in 2013, but the addition of its Cash Drawer feature is perhaps the biggest game-changer.