John Adams

PayPal plans to deploy a checkout system that contains the payment entirely within the merchant's website, one of several payments technology initiatives underway in at eBay's payments subsidiary.

Swift, the financial messaging service, is creating a global Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry, a centralized location to collect and share information to help banks vet the risk posed by other banks that handle transactions for corporate clients.

The CardLinx Association is working with its members to form standards to measure the link between advertising and marketing campaigns and payments performance.

OnPoint Community Credit Union is using person-to-person payments as the foundation of building consumer comfort with mobile as a channel for money movement.

OnPoint Community Credit Union is using person-to-person payments as the foundation of building consumer comfort with mobile as a channel for money movement.

Point of sale hardware and software provider Image Retail Solutions and payment service provider Anderson Zaks have partnered to sell outsourced card payment processing.

Seamless has signed an agreement with Visita, a Swedish hospitality industry and employers organization, to use the SEQR mobile payment system.

Financial services provider UniRush, the company behind the prepaid Visa RushCard, has appointed Rick Savard chairman and CEO.

Melissa Smith's plans for her first year as Wex's CEO sound a bit like trip around the world, with payment projects in locations as varied as Brazil, Thailand, Canada and Europe.

Chinese E-payment provider Alipay and microblogging platform provider Weibo have developed an online payment system that enables users to buy products through communication with acquaintances, Alipay announced Jan. 7.

Mobile technology vendor 1OAK says it can enable any point of sale machine to accept payments from a smartphone without changes to infrastructure or back-end payment processing systems.

Financial services technology provider Jack Henry will enable its clients to send and receive international payments via American Express' FX International Payments Service.

The new year got off to a mixed start for virtual currency, with regulators in Asia clamping down on Bitcoin and gaming company Zynga embracing the emerging payments option.

Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission is barring Bitcoin ATMs because the country's regulatory body views Bitcoin as a false currency that should not be used by people or banks for payments.

Union First Market Bankshares has made an equity investment in The Payments Company, which offers a software-based business payments service.

Canadian debit and credit card processor Moneris will use countertop devices from VeriFone that are designed to accept and secure a variety of electronic payments.

Mobile payments company I Love Velvet plans to win the business of international merchants by combining its mobile point of sale offering with broader e-commerce and security compliance tools.

One of the newest location-based payment apps came out of Brett Neese's house on a Friday night.

Starbucks has begun offering gift cards at certain locations in Mainland China, with designs meant to evoke the Lunar New Year.

E-commerce technology provider Shopify has launched a redesigned version of its iOS mobile app, adding features designed to enable store management and mobile payments.