John Adams

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.

To adapt to changes in the payments industry, Ceridian, a Minneapolis-based human resources, payroll and payment card company, has split its payments business from its human capital management unit.

The mobile payments market is overrun with companies offering clip-on card readers in a variety of shapes and sizes. Tantrum Street is betting that it can offer the same service without any add-on hardware at all.

The mobile carrier Sprint is launching Pinsight Touch, a national, open platform for securely storing and accessing credentials on a mobile device.

MasterCard is working with Parkeon, a parking management company, to enable merchants to deliver offers and loyalty programs to motorists while they are parking their cars.

Visa and @UKplc, a U.K.-based electronic commerce services provider, will jointly develop a software-based electronic procurement system that combines business management with payments.

MasterCard is adapting its rewards technology to better suit a world that's swimming in smartphones and abundant in app developers.

PayPal is now a payment option for Samsung Apps and Samsung Hub, and a payout option for Samsung Apps developers.

Maria Rueda, Heartland Payment Systems' chief financial officer, submitted her resignation on Sept. 25, according to an 8-K filing on Oct. 1.

Total System Services plans to deploy FICO fraud prevention technology to protect 1.8 million cardholders in Brazil.

Cardtronics USA, a unit of Cardtronics (CATM), has purchased the ATM assets of CGI, adding 1,000 merchant-owned ATMs to Cardtronics' U.S. fleet.

Cardtronics' subsidiary Cardtronics USA has purchased the ATM assets from CGI, adding 1,000 merchant-owned ATMs to Cardtronics' U.S. fleet.

In his first day as Global Payments' chief executive, Jeff Sloan shared his thoughts about how a new security initiative from Visa, MasterCard and American Express could affect his company.

The details of Clinkle's new payments service appear to have been leaked in an online video, though the company says the video is not a legitimate representation of its service.

Visa, MasterCard and American Express introduced a proposed framework for new global standards that would replace traditional account numbers with a digital payment "token" for online and mobile transactions.

Blackbaud MobilePay is using mobile commerce technology provider Roam, an Ingenico subsidiary, to support a mobile point of sale system for nonprofit payments.

Heartland Payment Systems has invested $20 million in its first round of funding for Leaf, a company that offers a tablet designed for accepting payments.

Matt Wilcox has joined Fiserv, where he will be the financial services technology company's director of digital payments marketing strategy and innovation.