John Adams

PayPal is going slow when it comes to Bitcoin, limiting its current focus to emerging channels and relying on partnerships with virtual-currency processors in North America.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s deal to distribute Green Dot Corp.'s mobile checking account, GoBank, signals a fundamental change in how both companies approach their audience.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s deal to distribute Green Dot Corp.'s mobile checking account, GoBank, signals a fundamental change in how both companies approach their audience.

Klarna will target a range of merchants in the U.S., but will focus on e-commerce merchants that ship tangible goods. Its buy-now-pay-later model would, in most cases, result in the consumer paying for the item after receiving it in the mail.

PayPal's making moves to respond to the maturation of virtual currencies, entering into agreements with Bitcoin payment processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoGoin.

CO-OP Financial Services is developing a mobile app that will give consumers the ability to activate and deactivate card capabilities on the fly.

Macy's is using a mix of technology to pitch offers to consumers as they move within its store and shop across channels.

The PayPal Here mobile point of sale reader is now available on Android tablets, the eBay subsidiary announced Thursday.

Mobile payment provider Flint is adding team accounts to support the move beyond its roots as a vendor to micro merchants.

Green Dot plans to acquire Santa Barbara Tax Products Group for about $320 million, a move that will allow the prepaid card provider to add tax refund processing services through partnerships with tax preparers.

Green Dot plans to acquire Santa Barbara Tax Products Group (TPG) for about $320 million, a move that will allow the prepaid card provider to add tax refund processing services through partnerships with tax preparers.

DirectCash Payments has agreed to acquire Exeatm's ATM business in Australia for about $15.7 million.

Visa has engaged J.P. Morgan Securities as it considers its options regarding the card network's investment in Monitise.

U.S. merchants will have to upgrade their terminals soon to be able to support the influx of Apple devotees who will want to use their new phones to make payments.

Subway's substantial support of the telco-led Softcard mobile wallet and the recently unveiled Apple Pay, which both use Near Field Communication for payments, is a sign that the technology's interoperability is paying off in larger deployments.

China UnionPay has an enticing mix of attributes that make it very attractive for a new travel payments play, said Celia Pereiro, head of Amadeus Travel Payments, a unit of Amadeus IT Group.

Amazon plans to discontinue WebPay, a service that allows people to send cash to each other.

The U.K. telco-backed mobile commerce venture Weve is reportedly ending its plans for a universal mobile wallet. Its members will work on their own individual mobile wallets, which will be challenged when they face off against the upcoming Apple Pay.

VeriFone and Creative Mobile Technologies are collaborating to remove a major barrier for the taxi rider who wants to use a smartphone to pay, but has the wrong app.

Square has raised $100 million in funding at a valuation of about $6 billion, according to Fortune, which attributed the news to market data source VCExperts.com