John Adams

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.

MasterCard's Mobile Money Partnership Program (MMPP) has added Oberthur Technologies' MoreMagic subsidiary, a provider of financial services, security and identity management.

PayPal's plans to extend its payments business inside of stores includes technology that attempts to reduce the need for customers to wait in line at the cash register.

As new mobile payment options storm the market, plastic cards refuse to bend, according to a new study of consumer habits.

Virtual Piggy will deploy Kount's fraud management technology to provide payments security.

Revel is offering PayPal’s mobile payment capabilities as an integrated service within the Revel point of sale system.

VeriFone Systems and National Payment Card Association (NPCA) have launched a payments and rewards product that supports mobile payments at gas stations.

At $12 billion in deposits, FirstBank narrowly misses being ranked among the top 50 banks. But it's rubbing shoulders with the top three as it becomes first non-founding member of the clearXchange person-to-person payments network.

Heartland Payment Systems and Tabbedout are developing an integrated mobile payment system for restaurants and bars.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) plans an electronic voucher program in Lebanon that will enable Syrian refugees to make MasterCard payments.

DataCash and Redecard are providing residents in Brazil with options for making payments with cross-border e-commerce retailers.