David Heun

Spire Payments’ point-of-sale terminals will be available to merchants in Australia through a partnership with independent sales organization Keycorp Services Ltd.

Through an expanded partnership between MasterCard and Green Dot, U.S. consumers holding a MasterCard prepaid card can reload the account through the Walmart Rapid Reload service.

Mobile phone numbers and e-mail addresses are increasingly vital to verifying a consumer's identity to protect against fraud.

Airtag figures it has landed its mobile payment system in the right places at the right time, concentrating on the fast-food and grocery markets.

Bank of East Asia will launch a mobile payment service for its credit card customers in Hong Kong early next year.

DeviceFidelity Inc. has upgraded its iCaisse cover for iPhones to support the use of a SIM card as the secure element for Near Field Communication mobile payments.

Online PIN debit provider Acculynk now allows U.S. merchants to accept China UnionPay payments online.

Barclays Plc continues to position its Pingit person-to-person payment service as an option for all types of mobile payments in the U.K.

Oberthur Technologies will supply First Data Corp. with EMV smart cards as part of a partnership in which both companies plan to promote use of the chip-based cards in the U.S.

Russian mobile technology developer i-Free plans to expand the Near Field Communication-based payment services offered by Tinkoff Credit Systems, or TCS Bank.

Telecom Italia and Visa Europe plan to support Near Field Communication payments for more than 31 million Telecom Italia Mobile subscribers next year.

Even if it takes the payments industry months to respond to Google's use of Host Card Emulation, which simulates the signal from a Near Field Communication chip, the technology is a potential game changer.

Ripple Labs has secured $3.5 million in additional funding to fuel the development of its digital currency network.

Google Inc. sent a few tremors through the payments industry when announcing its newest Android operating system can perform contactless payments without high-level access to NFC hardware. No one could blame SimplyTapp CEO Doug Yeager if he were cheering Google on from the sidelines.

More small merchants are starting to comply with the Payment Card Industry security standards, which describe how to protect card data, but many merchants still do not have an incident response plan in case of a data breach.

Optimal Payments Plc and Channel 1 Media are bringing online and mobile payments to fans of professional sports teams in North America.

Visa Inc. has expanded the role of French secure-chip testing expert Fime, which will support the card network's mobile payment application testing.

Hybrid PayTech World Inc. is offering programs to allow application developers to incorporate the company’s multi-operating-system payments technology.

Planet Payment Inc. has entered a multi-year extension for its agreement to provide multi-currency payment processing services for Network International LLC.

Visa Inc. has expanded the role of French secure-chip testing expert Fime, which will support the card network's mobile payment application testing.