John Adams

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.

Harris Teeter will pilot Paydiant's mobile wallet as part of its Express Lane online shopping service, starting at a grocery store location in Matthews, N.C.

Moven has contracted with online and mobile payments company Payveris to provide payment services for the financial services startup.

Social payment provider Akimbo has launched a co-branding platform that enables banks and credit unions to offer Visa prepaid cards that connect to Facebook accounts for money movement.

UniRush is finding that the audience for prepaid cards is going well beyond the underbanked. The company, which offers the prepaid RushCard, is responding with a new approach to better appeal to this new audience.

PayPal is paying attention to locally owned stores in its initiative to support in-store payments, but the small-business segment has posed many challenges for companies that try to introduce new technology.

Trustwave and Transaction Network Services (TNS) plan to jointly provide an encryption service designed to shield payment card information.

Motorola Mobility will phase out its use of Xoom branding for its tablet, following a trademark infringement fight with Xoom, an online remittance company.