John Adams

Citigroup is migrating its commercial card business in Turkey to its global platform, as the bank plots additional moves into Russia and other markets.

Adquira and Inetco are attacking payment-processing slowdowns by using cloud-delivered technology to track the performance of individual components of a transaction.

The federal government says it may build databases of credit card transactions, hotel records and Internet searches as part of counter security measures.

DeviceFidelity, which has spent years supporting hardware-based mobile payment systems with the likes of Visa and MasterCard, is reporting success in devoting more attention to the software-based aspects of its moneto wallet.

The Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) has hired Dekkers Davidson to be its CEO. Davidson was most recently a managing director at Barclaycard US.

Financial Prepaid Services (PFS), a MasterCard prepaid partner, has introduced the SmartPayCard Prepaid MasterCard in Slovenia, the first domestically issued prepaid MasterCard in that country.

Heartland Payment Systems will use Alaric's Fractals fraud prevention and detection product to monitor the 300 million card transactions it processes each month.

Payvia is looking to burst through the traditional mobile funds transfer model in emerging markets by adding a wide range of digital services and new forms of content.

Tablet point of sale technology provider ShopKeep POS has hired Todd Lasher as vice president and general manager of its channel business.

DeviceFidelity has chosen MoneyGram to be the money transfer provider for its moneto mobile wallet.

Prepaid card provider epay has rolled out Google Play gift cards at more than 5,600 food and discount stores in Germany.

Western Union's Business Services division will offer a global tuition product that allows international students from South Korea and China to pay tuition in their own currencies.

Fraudsters are upping the ante in their pursuit of payment data by creating spoofed sites that look so real they even include localized language settings and drop-down menus to dupe consumers into turning over credentials.

Cloud payment processor i2c Inc. and Heartland Payment Systems have teamed to provide prepaid card processing services. Their first collaboration is to add features to the National Restaurant Association’s Edge prepaid card program.

Virtual Piggy has linked its youth payments engine to Innovation First International, which makes robotic toys and educational tools.

Capital Services plans to begin offering its internally-used suite of payments, consumer and portfolio management tools to a broad market of financial players.

W. Alexander Hoffman is the new senior vice president of global product management and emerging channels at MoneyGram International.

Bitcoin exchange Coinbase will offer instant purchases for users that supply identity information, with others having to wait four days for transactions to complete.

GoCardless is using a link to Sage's accounting software to improve the experience of automating business-to-business payments in a market that typically lags the consumer payments market.

The Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile payments initiative created by major retailers, will use technology from FIS to speed processing and provide access to accounts at a large range of financial institutions.