John Adams

After every major Samsung product unveiling this week, PayPal was quick to say: we have an app for that.

PayPal has entered into an agreement that will allow Deutsche Telekom subscribers to make purchases and have them billed to their mobile phone account.

MasterCard and telcommunications technology provider Syniverse are testing a service designed to protect card transactions for travelers by allowing payments only when a user's mobile device is switched on in a specific location.

MasterCard, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica Deutschland, Vodafone and Trevica are partnering on a mobile payments initiative in Germany, where interoperability issues have long hampered the mobile commerce market.

PayPal will support mobile fingerprint authentication on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone, enabling Samsung customers to use their fingers to log in to shop at merchants who accept PayPal.

Forbes Media signed a licensing agreement with Lotaris that will allow the Swiss technology company the rights to the name Forbes Digital Commerce.

Mobile payments have transitioned from "concept to adoption," according to the MasterCard and Prime Research's second annual mobile payments study.

PayPal will allow users of Samsung's newly announced smartwatches to check in at PayPal merchants and execute transactions at their stores.

HP plans to sell a tablet-based point of sale system that integrates payments with a number of other business operations.

MasterCard has upgraded its MasterPass digital wallet to enable purchases from within mobile applications.

MasterCard has entered into an agreement to purchase mobile wallet technology developer C-Sam.

Square will now accept Discover and Diners Club credit card payments in Canada, joining American Express, Visa, MasterCard and JCB credit cards.

According to new fraud prevention company Forter, the best way for merchants to combat electronic payments fraud is hand off the responsibility entirely.

Youth payments company Oink is partnering with Discover to add scale to Oink's efforts to adapt its online payment system for in-store use.

Smartphone commerce company LoopPay has released LoopWallet, as well as a fob that enables users to store payment credentials.

PayPal has hired Danese Cooper for the new position of Head of Open Source, a role meant to improve PayPal's engagement with external software engineers.

Planet Payment's president, Carl Williams, has been elevated to CEO, succeeding Philip Beck, who will remain chairman of the multi-currency transaction processor's board.

BNY Mellon's treasury services business is building a new infrastructure to facilitate tasks tied to corporate payments, such as processing, transaction tracking and pricing—particularly for clients who make payments across borders.

Visa and MasterCard are adopting emerging communications technology called host card emulation (HCE), which is designed to power bank and merchant-led mobile payments apps with less reliance on phone hardware.

E-commerce technology provider Payza will offer an outsourced service that allows U.S. merchants to accept card payments directly into their business bank accounts.