David Heun

Phillips 66 has joined the retailer-driven Merchant Customer Exchange mobile payments and commerce initiative, the Houston-based gas station chain announced May 23. Phillips 66 also operates Conoco stations. The company joins MCX only two weeks after the mobile payment venture added another petroleum provider, Pacific Convenience & Fuels LLC.

Charge Anywhere LLC will have gateway software available when small U.S. merchants need to accept EMV-chip card payments with their smartphones.

The most challenging and frustrating aspect of the Single Euro Payments Area project, according to a major German acquirer, is its goal of establishing common payment standards throughout Europe.

Visa's hiring of former JPMorgan Chase executive Ryan McInerney comes six months after Visa named an ex-Chase executive as its CEO and three months after the bank and card network revealed plans to team up on a new payments platform.

Visa's hiring of former JPMorgan Chase executive Ryan McInerney to be its new president maintains the card network's bond with the top-tier bank.

Sprint's Boost Mobile prepaid phone service developed a mobile wallet as a way to provide financial services for its underbanked target audience.

ControlScan is providing online payments security for ConvergenceHealth's digital- and cloud-based healthcare software and services.

Google and Square have entered the notoriously challenging person-to-person payment field, sidestepping one of the major hurdles other companies have faced: signing up new users.

Licensed gun dealers are finding it increasingly hard to accept card-not-present credit card or debit card transactions, but companies such as Tasker Payment Gateways are not gun-shy when it comes to serving the firearms industry.

A person-to-person payment method called Square Cash has surfaced on Square's website, less than a week after Google announced similar capabilities through Gmail and Google Wallet accounts.

Some consumers in London reportedly experienced problems with the contactless payment system U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer recently expanded into all of its 644 stores.

MasterCard is part of a joint venture that will launch the Zuum mobile payments service this month. The venture is touting Zuum as the first service of its kind in Brazil.

Payvia, which provides direct-carrier billing technology, has acquired Mogreet, a provider of cloud-based mobile messaging.

The timing couldn’t be better for the new advisory board of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council to include several European voices.

Micros Systems UK Ltd. and mobile payments provider Payleven have developed a cloud-based point of sale system that includes mobile chip and PIN card acceptance.

Bob Evans, managing director of the Europe division of Total System Services Inc., passed away May 11 while on a hiking excursion in California with friends.

Facebook is working with Payments technology provider Marqeta Inc. to add features to its stored-value Facebook Card.

Google has integrated Google Wallet with Gmail to allow users to send funds as email attachments.

PayZang hopes to bring a mobile payments system to the private practice of a doctor, or the office of a larger healthcare company.a

Tyfone Inc. is taking smart-card security beyond plastic payment cards with a plan to apply the technology to mobile devices and personal computers.