John Adams

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.

Nacha's Janet Estep has just finished one of the biggest weeks of the year for the association—one that included heavy advocacy for automated clearing house payments at Nacha's Payments 2013 conference.

Rewarder's a startup that works in reverse of most online markets — it facilitates payments for buyers who are willing to pay for a unique expertise.

SumUp, a London-based company that allows merchants to accept card payments on their smartphones, will enable iPad acceptance through a partnership with Revel Systems.

Vindicia, a subscription billing service, is teaming with U.K.-based processor SmartDebit to provide "customer-not-present" payment technology.

U.S. Bancorp has developed voice recognition software that will let customers handle banking tasks by speaking commands into their mobile device.

Francoise Brougher, a former Google and Charles Schwab executive, is Square's new business lead.

PNC is undertaking an effort to tear down the barriers that have hindered adoption of electronic payments.

WorldPay, which provides electronic payment processing, has contracted to bring the NFC and EMV capabilities of VeriFone's countertop payment products to merchants.

Total Systems Services Inc. on April 25 debuted two services designed to make multi-currency shopping and payments easier for users to understand and execute.

Avant-Garde Marketing Solutions (AGMS), a merchant service provider, will sell and deploy a number of Ingenico’s new countertop terminals, including those that handle EMV-chip card payments.