John Adams

Online and mobile payments processor WePay's has seen the number of developers using its application programming interface (API) grow by 284% in the past year.

TSYS' ProPay has launched a service to handle rent payments via mobile devices for the property management industry.

Payment processor Global Payments Asia-Pacific Ltd. and telecom service provider Dialog Axiata PLC are offering technology in Sri Lanka that enables smartphones or tablets to be used as mobile point of sale terminals.

PayPal Canada is collaborating with TouchBistro to allow customers to use smartphones to "check in" and pay at restaurants.

Crystal Clear Payments is fighting fraud by rapidly changing permissions in response to evolving risk.

For merchants that use mobile point of sale technology, the U.S. migration to EMV-chip cards may still be a couple of years away. Roam aims to make it possible to accept EMV cards ahead of schedule.

Mobile financial services company Paymobile has partnered Rovio Entertainment to provide an Angry Birds prepaid Visa card for Canadians.

Former Citigroup payments executive Raja Rajamannar will be the new chief marketing officer at MasterCard, effective September 9.

Jack Henry's JHA Payment Processing Solutions (PPS) will offer an expedited EMV implementation process for U.S. chip-card issuance.

PayPal's building its move into physical stores brick by brick, and its processing partnership with TSYS is one of its largest moves to date, threatening to grab payments business away from card-issuing banks.

Cardtronics has named consultant David Dove to head a new Enterprise Growth Group.

TSYS has agreed to process PayPal payments made through the eBay subsidiary's partnership with Discover.

David Dove is the new group president of enterprise growth at the ATM operator Cardtronics, which is also launching a new Enterprise Growth Group.

Danish mobile point of sale provider Wallmob is introducing a new tablet stand to a payments market where technology is heavily influenced by the card companies that dominate the region.

Facebook is building on the success of its plastic gift cards by adding merchants that can accept it, but is also planning to eliminate a system that lets the social network's users send mailed gifts.

Vodafone and ICICI Bank are offering the M-Pesa mobile money service in New Delhi and Mumbai, according to reports.

Taulia, which sells business-to-business payments technology, has raised $18 million in new funding.

Online publisher ClickBank is using payment information to help vet the businesses that use its service.

Continuity Software plans to release software to detect weaknesses in the technology that connects data storage to servers, potentially spotting areas where payments data is at risk of being lost.

A newly formed group called the Third Party Payment Processors Association (TPPPA) plans to advocate for third-party payment processors, as well as for partner financial institutions and the merchants and consumers that use their services.