John Adams

Total System Services closed its $1.4 billion acquisition of NetSpend on July 1, in line with its previously disclosed schedule for closing.

Card processor and merchant acquirer Clearent is working with Reward4Schools to help the Missouri-based community rewards provider reach a national audience.

Payments startup Clinkle has attracted a long roster of Silicon Valley investors for its new payments technology, which is expected to debut within the next year.

CCBill has developed a portal to help merchants analyze data produced by payments to spot purchasing patterns and other trends that can tie past transactions to future business strategy.

Webster Bank's plotting its move into mobile payments, and part of its strategy is to let others make the mistakes, particularly when it comes to tapping payments data for purposes such as marketing.

Vantiv and Planet Payment have launched the Pay in Your Currency service at 85 Billabong locations in the U.S.

Tablet point of sale technology provider Revel Systems has raised $10.1 million in expansion capital that it will use to increase staff as well as open new offices in Asia and Europe.

Small business online service provider Web.com has incorporated MasterCard's digital wallet, MasterPass, into its offerings, enabling MasterCard to dramatically and quickly expand MasterPass' merchant base.

Comdata Corp. will provide fleet and fuel payment for Lowe's, a hardware seller with more than 5,000 vehicles.

Money transfer provider Xoom is making a push for mobile payments to improve the experience for the recipient of a money transfer.

Intuit now lets iPad owners who use its GoPayment mobile card reader scan credit and debit cards with the tablet's built-in camera.

Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson, a director of payments processor DataCell, is offering to transport whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to Iceland if that country grants him asylum, according to Reuters.

SimpleTuition's SmarterBucks has launched a blog that's designed to add expert commentary to a program in which card payments contribute to student loan repayment.

Celltick is bringing its mobile payments coupon service to countries such as Indonesia and Russia — moves that confront some cultural hurdles for it to overcome.

Iyzi Payments has raised $1.4 million from a group of undisclosed angel investors, and it will use the funds to build a new payments platform in Turkey.

The Mississippi Department of Revenue is providing its agents with mobile devices to accept credit or debit cards for tax payments.

Online ticket payment provider Picatic has the business model of a museum—its customers are expected to pay, but the amount is at least partly up to the patron.

MasterCard and Western Union have launched an international payments service that allows small to medium sized U.S. businesses to execute cross border transactions.

Electronic payments company Ixaris, which has about 20 corporate clients using its Ixaris Payments Server, will target corporate prepaid card-issuing financial institutions with the same technology.

Xoom has developed native Apple and Android applications for its money transfer service.