John Adams

General Payment Systems will provide kiosk-based payment and tracking technology for probation needs through CSRA Probation Services, which serves about 60 state courts in Georgia.

One-size-fits-all mobile card readers and apps won't cut it for many merchants, says Scott Holt, a vice president at mobile point of sale company Roam.

With its purchase of NetSpend closed, the processor Total System Services (TSYS) is beginning to use the prepaid card marketer as a lure for financial institutions and merchants.

Mobile payments company Clinkle has hired Barry McCarthy to be its chief operating officer.

Irish financial services group Fexco and BNP Paribas are acquiring Flashiz, a two-year old Luxembourg-based mobile payment company.

Brookfield, Wis.—Sixty percent of consumers make at least one payment per month with a laptop or desktop computer, according to a survey commissioned by Fiserv.

Sixty percent of consumers make at least one payment per month with a laptop or desktop computer, according to a survey commissioned by Fiserv.

AccessPay has signed an agreement with Swift to incorporate Swift connectivity into AccessPay's cloud-based corporate payments hub and cash management platform.

Visa Europe's Steve Chambers is joining Monitise's board as a non-executive director.

MasterCard has developed technology designed to provide greater control over corporate travel accounts.

Consumers are increasingly jumping form one channel to another when shopping and paying, pressuring issuers and other payment companies to simultaneously accommodate older plastic-card models alongside the Web and mobile commerce.

Flint has released an Android version of its swipeless mobile card acceptance product, which relies on the smartphone's embedded camera to scan an image of a card to accept payments.

Wonga, a London-based provider of short-term loans, has purchased BillPay, a Berlin-based online payment and financing platform.

Udi's, which operates a group of cafes and pizza establishments in the Denver area, just launched a customized mobile payments program with the goal of obtaining the data that is normally invisible to it when patrons pay with credit and debit cards.

Western Union has renewed its collaboration with La Banque Postale, the banking subsidiary of La Poste, the postal services operator in France.

Signifyd, a company co-founded by PayPal and FedEx veteran Rajesh Ramanand, is launching an e-commerce fraud platform that attempts to combine shoppers' online and offline identities to better evaluate a transaction's legitimacy.

Visa and global e-commerce company Borderfree are offering free shipping from Borderfree's clients to Visa cardholders in Southeast Asia.

Capital One and General Motors are extending their co-branded card partnership with the introduction of a new GM MasterCard from Capital One.

Western Union and MasterCard have joined with lottery and gaming company Gtech S.p.A to offer the My WU reloadable prepaid card in Italy.

Mobile point of sale processor payworks and European hospitality technology provider Orderman are designing mobile terminals for chip-and-PIN cards.