John Adams

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.

Visa's deal with JPMorgan Chase to launch the Chase Merchant Services partnership is likely just the beginning, as the card network says it plans to seek out more relationships with other issuers and acquirers.

Square has hired retail, consumer product and payments veteran Alex Petrov to be its vice president of partnerships.

Square's growth in Canada is "exceeding expectations," the mobile card acceptance company announced late April 30.

First Data is having a busy week. On Sunday it announced a new CEO, who started the job Monday. And today, it had a tough earnings call where the company admitted it could do more to leverage its considerable data to expand the services it sells to clients.

MoneyGram has signed a global agreement that will allow Ukash customers to send domestic and international money transfers from Ukash's website and receive it at any of 310,000 locations through MoneyGram's account deposit channels.

eServGlobal plans to extend use of its mobile money technology into markets in the Middle East and Africa.

Discover has signed contracts with 50 merchant acquirers to enable PayPal's in-store payment system to pass 2 million merchant locations by the end of 2013, the card brand said.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has changed parts of the CARD Act that the bureau said was making it harder for some "stay-at-home parents" to get credit cards.

Only a couple of hours into his new job as First Data's CEO, Frank Bisignano was already plotting a strategy to deal with the historic impact of mobile technology on the payments industry.

First Data has hired Frank Bisignano be its new chief executive officer. Bisignano was formerly co-COO at JPMorgan Chase, where he specialized in managing tech development for customer-facing products.