John Adams

Dickie Brennan is a New Orleans staple, a local business owner whose family has operated restaurants in the Crescent City for decades. A protégé of legendary chef Paul Prudhomme, Brennan is also an early adopter of a new mobile technology he hopes will change the way people dine out.

FirstBank is the first non-founding member of clearXchange, a bank-led network that lets consumers send payments to other customers of clearXchange banks.

MasterCard has agreed to purchase Provus Billisim Hizmetleri A.S. (Provus), a Turkish payment technology and processing company.

Citigroup's Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) business has added new currencies and expanded its electronic processing capabilities.

E-Commerce sales on the Visa network in the U.S. surpassed $1 billion 188 times during the first nine months of the 2013 (out of 273 total days), a 16% increase in volume over the same period last year, the card network reports.

Simple, which provides financial services primarily through online and mobile channels, plans to launch two mobile person-to-person payments systems.

Groupon's strategy in mobile payments relies heavily on the feedback it gets from its merchants. The company's latest update to the Breadcrumb POS mobile payment app allows those merchants to get similar knowledge about their own customers' needs.

Virtual Piggy has become a Demandware Link technology partner, which enables the youth payment company to reach retailers in Demandware's network.

Eataly, an international Italian food seller, will offer cooking lessons, tours, recipes signed by famous Italian chefs, and other perks to MasterCard customers.

U.S. Bank is developing a mobile app that can provide physical stores with the sort of data that is typically only available to online and mobile shopping sites.

Citigroup is developing a mobile wallet that uses Near Field Communication technology for contactless payments.

U.S. Bank and Monitise are partnering to develop mobile shopping technology, including product selection and instant checkout.

DataCash, a MasterCard subsidiary, will add Swiff's mobile point of sale technology to DataCash's range of processing and risk management services.

ShopKeep POS has hired Drew Schwartz as vice president of product management and David Herzog as director of business development for the company's channel business.

CU Wallet has partnered with Paydiant, DoubleBeam and CheckAlt to power components of its credit union-focused mobile wallet.

MasterCard and CB Bank will offer prepaid travel cards to Myanmar residents for international travel.

MasterCard has added Lulu Hypermarket and Auchan Italy to fundraising efforts tied to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

PayPal is developing a new checkout process for its mobile app, allowing users to scan a QR code or type a PIN at the point of sale to authenticate purchases made with its cloud-based mobile payment app.

Wired is deploying MasterCard technology that is designed to allow readers to purchase items directly from advertising and editorial content.

Card processor Pivotal Payments and data analytics vendor Womply are partnering to offer Pivotal Merchant Insights, which provides small businesses a way to analyze payments trends alongside their online and social media reputations.