John Adams

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.

Sam Yam was the college roommate of Jack Conte, half of the indie band Pomplamoose. Together, they founded Patreon to help artists like Conte raise funds from fans online.

Payments technology provider ZooZ has developed a product that combines mobile payments with advertising.

Payment processor Vantiv and transaction hardware provider NCR have entered a strategic relationship to sell point of sale technology and payments products to the small-business market.

Banks have an opportunity to seize share against alternative payment providers in real-time payments, according to new FIS-funded research from Ipsos Vantis.

Leaf, which offers a tablet specifically for in-store card payments, has added new features designed to ease user experience and attract third-party developers.

Australian debit card company eftpos has signed a five-year agreement with mobile wallet technology developer C-Sam.

Mobile pay tech company Boku has entered a carrier billing partnership with Swisscom to provide direct-to-bill payments to more than 6 million customers, or more than 60% of Switzerland's mobile market.

Prepaid card marketer Card.com now offers a prepaid card for Star Trek fans.

Visa is adding electronic capabilities to its Visa Offers rewards program, leveraging online and mobile technology to bring offers closer to the point of sale.

Roam, a Boston-based Ingenico subsidiary that sells mobile commerce technology, will partner with iPayment to sell a range of mobile payment services to merchants.