John Adams

Simon Haslam is becoming president and CEO of Elavon at a time of extreme stress for payments processors, which face nimble competitors, new payment standards and high-profile security risks.

Facebook Connect is an increasingly prevalent way for Internet users to skip registration for other websites by using their Facebook credentials instead — and to WePay, it's also a tool for fighting payment fraud.

Google is not including a physical payments card as part of its mobile wallet, at least for the immediate future, according to the tech news site allthingsd.com.

MDPromptPay is offering a negotiation service that combines users' medical expenses to build negotiation leverage for healthcare payments.

Advantage Refreshments knows its vending machines look just like those operated by rivals, so it's trying to attract repeat business with a loyalty program from payments hardware maker USA Technologies.

Koupah, which is providing a new point of sale card acceptance tablet, aims to offset credit card transaction fees with ads.

Simon Haslam has been promoted to president and CEO of payment processor Elavon, replacing Mike Passilla, who recently left the company.

American Express is pursuing a new chief financial officer to help it manage the opportunities and financial stress borne by the future of digital commerce and emerging merchant acquisition strategies.

Alliance Data Systems has signed a multiyear agreement to provide private-label credit card services for the electronics retailer TigerDirect.

CO-OP Financial Services is offering a card-based local merchant rewards program that encourages credit union members to shop within a small area.

Alpha Payments Cloud is aiming to make the deployment of payments technology more flexible, thus allowing companies to adopt new payments products at a faster pace.

Vantiv is counting on its acquisition of Litle & Co. to fuel a substantial push to win share for digital payments processing.

Xoom will give customers who send a digital online money transfer to the Philippines during the month of May a $50 Amazon.com gift card as part of a Mother's Day promotion.

Discover Financial Services and Network International, a Middle Eastern payment provider, have formed a strategic alliance to allow cross border card acceptance.

Ed Labry, who served as First Data's interim CEO before the payments processor chose Frank Bisignano for the top job on April 28, has been named vice chairman.

Tradehill is relaunching its virtual currency trading system after it shut down an earlier version of its offering last year amid regulatory disputes and a legal fight with online payment company Dwolla.

RentPaidOnline (RPO), an online payment service for property managers, and mobile commerce provider Spindle are partnering to develop a mobile version of RPO’s portal.

Heartland will use Ingenico's software and experience with EMV-chip cards to help deliver new terminals and PIN pads in the U.S. as the country migrates to the EMV standard for payment cards.

Citigroup has developed new mobile technology that allows suppliers to track the status of incoming business payments from clients.

An app store launched by Alpha Payments Cloud will allow merchants and financial institutions to build and purchase the various components of its payments technology stack.