John Adams

It's hard to build and maintain a false persona on social networks, and that's what makes sites like Facebook and Twitter such useful tools for controlling risk, says John Canfield, WePay's new vice president of risk management.

Airlines and payment companies have not traditionally targeted small businesses for travel rewards, but Chase Paymentech and United Airlines hope that by making business-related purchases easier to manage, small businesses will seek out airline miles programs.

The lack of a standard technology model for mobile point of sale payments is not only holding back consumer adoption, it's also affecting regulatory compliance, says Mphasis' Kumail Tyebjee.

John Canfield is the new vice president of risk management at small-business payment company WePay.

DataCash, a MasterCard payments processing subsidiary, and Redecard will partner to sell electronic commerce products to merchants in Brazil.

Wolfe LLC is changing the name of its Wolfe Rewards and Loyalty business to OmniCard, a move designed to reflect the operation's range of offerings.

Youth payment company Virtual Piggy is bolstering its international expansion plans via a joint marketing agreement with ClickandBuy, a global provider of online payment systems.

Clip, which sells mobile payments technology in Spanish-speaking markets, has developed a mobile card reader.

Mike Passilla, JPMorgan Chase's new merchant services boss, didn't take a sledge hammer to the digital payment startups that are chewing away at incumbent payments companies, but his message was clear—Chase is one of the biggest guys on the block, and it plans to use its data and technology heft to win in the merchant acquiring game.

Heartland Payment Systems has named Tony Capucille chief sales officer.

Former Elavon president and CEO Mike Passilla will be JPMorgan Chase's new CEO of merchant services, a new role created to lead the financial institution's expanding payments and merchant services business, including Chase Paymentech.

Indiana's Centier Bank has triggered a new source of payments volume by giving consumers new debit cards in three minutes.

Youth payments company Virtual Piggy is adding elements of gaming to its product mix via a partnership with JumpStart.

Blaze Mobile is developing a new Near Field Communication mobile phone attachment that attempts to build a more open mobile wallet by allowing consumers to choose from a series of payment accounts.

ZooZ is one several companies building new technology that attempts to improve the integration between marketing and mobile payments.

Chase Paymentech Europe, a merchant acquiring and processing subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase, has introduced a new service designed to lighten the security burden for European online merchants.

A growing number of payments technology providers are targeting small businesses with mobile point of sale offerings, creating a tech boom for a merchant segment that’s often been underserved.

Small business tech provider PlanetSoho is adding new tools that are aimed at clients that prefer paper billing.

Corporate payment company Wex has entered a partnership with travel services provider Grupo Transhotel to broaden travel payments services.

Mass payment facilitator Tipalti is bringing its technology to advertising payments through a partnership with Cake Marketing, which provides services for performance-based marketing.