John Adams

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.

Square has eliminated holds and deposit limits for manually entered transactions in the U.S., and is marketing these changes to frustrated PayPal users.

Swedish mobile payment company Seamless has introduced its SEQR mobile wallet in Belgium in collaboration with bpost bank, with an initial deployment at Belgian McDonald’s locations.

Blackhawk Network has completed its purchase of InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions, which will operate as a business unit of Blackhawk, a distributor of gift cards and prepaid telecom products.

U.S. Bank has launched a travel payments engine that provides unique identifiers for each transaction instead of a centralized billing umbrella.

The payment processor Planet Payment has named Carl Williams as its president.

Heartland Payment Systems will be a distributor of American Express Merchant Financing, a program that allows small businesses to obtain credit based on annual card processing volume.

Former First Data CFO Cheryl King will assume the same position at PaySpan, a health care payment automation company.