John Adams

European point of sale technology provider Spire will be the sole supplier of mobile chip and PIN payment devices for Smart TPE, Credit Agricole's mobile point of sale initiative in France.

Square has updated the design of its Square Register app in an attempt to improve user navigation and provide a consistent experience across different operating systems such as Google's Android and Apple's iOS 7.

RBS Citizens just finished a year in which it upgraded a large portion of its business payments technology, with an emphasis on mobile—and now it hopes to convince a younger generation of U.S. business executives to eliminate paper in treasury management.

PayPal's freshly announced support of in-app payments for Uber and McDonald's illustrate that the eBay unit is fast adapting to a world that demands more of its payments technology vendors.

VeriFone will provide payment services to Reseau Clubs Bouygues Telecom, the consumer retail affiliate of Bouygues Telecom, one of France's largest mobile operators.

The Chinese online payment provider Alipay has added a number of security products from CyberSouce, a Visa-owned e-commerce management provider.

Retail website developer Weebly is using Stripe's technology to add shopping and payments capabilities to the sites it supports for small merchants.

VeriFone has launched UX Solutions, a suite of payment devices that support EMV-chip and mag-stripe payments.

Microsoft and mobile commerce provider FreedomPay have developed a system that integrates digital payments with a company's underlying business processes.

About half of the population of Belgium will be using smartphones by the end of next year, making the time ripe for a mobile payments push.

Don't get distracted by the big-name telecoms that designed the Isis mobile wallet, or you'll miss the wizard behind the curtain: American Express, which stands to see a jolt in adoption of its Serve account if Isis succeeds.

GrowLife, a company that serves the legal cannabis industry, has developed kiosk-based retail point of sale software.

Western Union has launched a transactional website in Russia, extending its Internet transaction network to 24 countries.

Government payment processor General Payment Systems has signed an agreement with Riverside Superior Court in California to support alternative payments.

Payments processor Cardis USA and mobile commerce vendor Spindle are joining with vending machine manufacturer Multi-max to enable mobile payments at its machines, where most consumers still buy coffee with cash.

Now that Isis has launched its mobile wallet nationwide at AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile stores, the venture says its next priority is bringing more merchants on board.

ROSEMONT, Ill. — Quatrro, a business processing company based in India, is launching payment processing services for credit unions, community banks and other payment companies in the United States.

Isis, the mobile wallet venture led by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, is launching nationally after extended public tests.

Smaller banks are turning to mobile payments in droves, though the services still mostly resemble Web banking on a mobile device — support for full-featured mobile wallets is still in its infancy.

Quatrro, a business processing company based in India, is launching payment processing services for credit unions, community banks and other payment companies in the U.S.