Fintech

At first glance Xipwire Inc.'s mobile payments system seems obsolete next to competing services — its software isn't based on a sleek-looking digital wallet application on a smartphone and it doesn't rely on payment chips that turn mobile devices into tap-and-go credit cards.

MasterCard Worldwide has launched a version of its ATM Hunter mobile application for smartphones that run on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, the card brand announced Jan. 19.

Hypercom Corp. has signed a deal with a German retail chain that will deploy 30,000 of its Artema Hybrid point-of-sale terminals over the next 30 months, the terminal maker announced Jan. 19.

Hypercom Corp. has signed a deal with a German retail chain that will deploy 30,000 of its Artema Hybrid point-of-sale terminals over the next 30 months, the terminal maker announced Jan. 19.

ROCKVILLE, Md. – The National Institutes of Health FCU, the nation’s largest credit union serving the biomedical industry, has announced the launch of a new partnership with Women in Bio, a 10-year-old group serving women in the bioscience industry, many of whom have formerly worked or currently work at NIH.

EBay Inc.’s payment unit, which includes PayPal Inc. and Bill Me Later, experienced a strong fourth quarter, eBay reported this afternoon.

The Indian capital city of New Delhi is testing a new, automated parking-management system that will accept payment cards from motorists either onsite or online, an official from the Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure Centre tells PaymentsSource.

Manila’s two suburban rail networks are conducting a trial in the Philippines to test the use of a common contactless smart card for their commuters.

Tanzania Posts Corp. and Vodacom Tanzania Ltd. have inked a mobile-banking agreement in which Vodacom will use the postal service’s network of branches as agents to support its M-Pesa funds-transfer service.

Within the United States, Ingenico S.A. already may be benefiting from the proposed merger between VeriFone Systems Inc. and Hypercom Corp., rival point-of-sale terminal makers.