John Adams

PayStand has launched an online payments platform that allows a variety of payments modes, including Bitcoin, electronic checks and cards.

Much like Africa, India is proving to be fertile ground for mobile money services, and payments processor Calpian plans to extend its reach in the market.

The telecom-driven mobile money provider M-Pesa has expanded to Europe, with cash-heavy Romania as its first market.

Square merchants who sell in the online Square Market can now accept payments in Bitcoin.

Square is accelerating its integration with third parties to save the time and resources it would take to develop the business technology it needs to stay competitive in an increasingly sophisticated and crowded mobile payments marketplace.

Already a major card issuer in the military market, Navy Federal Credit Union is working to expand its merchant services business through new agreements with Square and TSYS.

BlackBerry once seemed to be a good bet for mobile payments, with a large installed userbase even when iPhone and Android handsets were still considered a luxury rather than a necessity.

LevelUp is offering users a monthly cash back bonus for linking a debit card as a funding source for its mobile payment app.

Payments processor Stripe will enable its clients to accept bitcoins as a payment option.

Allied Payment Network and Malauzai Software plan to use video and chat to develop new mobile payment methods.

U.S. Bank has begun offering e-payment kiosks to companies that want to shrink lines during their stores' busiest hours.

While the world waits to see what Russian President Vladimir Putin does next in Ukraine and how Western governments respond, businesses with interests in Russia are already preparing for the economic implications of current events.

U.S. Bank has begun offering e-payment kiosks to companies that want to shrink lines during their stores' busiest hours.

Most digital wallets are focused on shopping, marketing and recurring payments, though mobile payment company PyxPay and donation payments company Interactive Donor Corp. are applying the concept to charitable giving.

MasterCard has entered into a commercial agreement with Monitise that includes cooperative development and a plan by the card network to make a minority investment in the technology company.

Target Corp.'s massive holiday-season data breach touched card issuers of all sizes, including banks as small as StonehamBank, which leveraged technology it refers to as a "digital" employee to manage and replace exposed cards.

Square is making all of its payment apps in available in Spanish in an effort to attract Latino merchants in the U.S.

MasterCard has added China to the international roster of markets that accept the card network's MasterPass digital wallet.

There's a lot of investment flowing into mobile payments technology, and perhaps this is more than the market can sustain.

Sionic Mobile, a provider of mobile marketing, gifting, payments and rewards programs, has embedded Google Wallet payments into its ION Rewards app.