John Adams

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.

Mobile payments and messaging provider Infobip has added direct mobile billing connections for its network of merchants and retailers in Russia.

Capital One has joined clearXchange, providing a flood of new potential end users to the bank-led person-to-person payments initiative.

Bangkok Bank Public Co. Ltd. hopes to take advantage of Thailand's easy financial infrastructure to enable a number of new payment options, such as cross-institutional person-to-person payments made from a mobile phone or an ATM.

Former Groupon product chief Jeff Holden has joined transportation services provider Uber as chief product officer, Uber announced on Feb. 14.

High-tech credit cards have often been a tough sell because of their cost and complexity, but two companies are pushing two very different approaches that they hope hold enough appeal to consumers to outweigh the up to $100 fee for the cardholder.

Square's plans to install payments technology in Whole Foods stores will not hurt the processor Vantiv, CEO Charles Drucker contends.

Payments service provider Yapital has integrated Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless technology into its portfolio, enabling a range of new proximity payments and location-based services.

Gilbarco Veeder-Root plans to develop a fueling and marketing system the leverages location-based and mobile technology, relying on Bluetooth beacons from Qualcomm.

PNC Merchant Services has begun offering Clover Station, a tablet-based point of sale system, to restaurant owners and managers.

Former Google and PayPal payments executive Osama Bedier has joined WePay as the payment company makes a major push to court developers.

Mobile commerce provider CardFree, whose executives have ties to Starbucks' successful mobile payments app, has received a U.S. patent for technology that integrates reservation, payment pre-authorization and transaction management with a merchant's point of sale system.

While global shipments of mobile point of sale devices reached 8.4 million units in 2013—a 53% increase over 2012—more than 1.3 million of the devices went unused during the year, according to new research from ISH Technology.

Russian customs payments processor Multiservice Payment System has deployed technology to combine a Web transaction portal with electronic declaration services at the point of sale.

Cash transaction provider PayNearMe is among the growing list of payment companies that are anxiously awaiting the higher volume of transactions that will result from the Affordable Care Act.

Feedzai is attempting to sell the U.S. on a multichannel approach to card data security in the wake of the recent data breaches afflicting major retailers.

Mt. Gox, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, has suspended Bitcoin withdrawals because of a technical issue, the company said in a Feb. 7 announcement.

SixThirty, a technology accelerator launched last year by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, is searching for its second class of financial services technology startups.

United Nations Federal Credit Union, the first U.S. financial institution to offer EMV-chip cards to U.S. residents in the nation's recent migration efforts, will tap Gemalto's global issuance service to add more locations were the credit union's members can obtain chip cards.

Clutch's mobile wallet has added technology from Mobeam that allows consumers to 'beam' bar codes from loyalty, membership and gift cards from certain smartphone models directly to standard laser scanners, which often cannot read bar codes on mobile apps.