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Swedish bank Handelsbanken plans to resell a VeriFone-built chip-and-PIN mobile card reader to enable the country's micro merchants to accept card payments through smartphones and tablets.

Ingenico's Roam is launching a mobile card reader with chip and PIN acceptance, and it expects U.S. merchants will want to use it to accept PIN debit transactions even before EMV-chip cards become widespread.

HP plans to sell a tablet-based point of sale system that integrates payments with a number of other business operations.

BlueSnap has developed software designed to help online merchants cut down on checkout abandonment by allowing them to host numerous checkout pages designed for different markets.

Square will now accept Discover and Diners Club credit card payments in Canada, joining American Express, Visa, MasterCard and JCB credit cards.

French terminal maker Ingenico SA and electronics giant Samsung are combining their mobile payment products to offer merchants an integrated mobile payment system.

TSYS has increased its stake in its Central Payment joint venture from 60% to 75%. Cpay founders Matt and Zach Hyman, twin brothers who own the remaining portion of the venture, have agreed to stay on as co-managing directors for the next three years.

Smartphone commerce company LoopPay has released LoopWallet, as well as a fob that enables users to store payment credentials.

A new red Square mobile card reader is available to merchants who want to encourage donations to the Global Fund to fight AIDS.

Mobile point of sale devices typically clip onto phones to allow the handsets to read card payments, but this approach is not the only option.

At first, Pedro Alarcon felt reluctant to help fund his restaurant by signing up for a merchant cash advance from a company that wasn't a bank. But he'd had so much difficulty getting a conventional loan that the pitch from a company called AdvanceMe sounded too good to be true.

Former Groupon product chief Jeff Holden has joined transportation services provider Uber as chief product officer, Uber announced on Feb. 14.

Square's plans to install payments technology in Whole Foods stores will not hurt the processor Vantiv, CEO Charles Drucker contends.

PNC Merchant Services has begun offering Clover Station, a tablet-based point of sale system, to restaurant owners and managers.

Daniel Lee has been accepting Bitcoin at his family's seven retail stores in Fort Greene, Brooklyn since March 2013 by having customers send the digital currency to wallet addresses he manages.

While global shipments of mobile point of sale devices reached 8.4 million units in 2013—a 53% increase over 2012—more than 1.3 million of the devices went unused during the year, according to new research from ISH Technology.

Whole Foods Market has agreed to use multiple versions of Square Inc.'s mobile payments technology.

Pizza Patron is integrating Revel Systems' mobile point of sale system into its more than 100 restaurant locations, which had been using several different vendors' products to accept payments.

Russian customs payments processor Multiservice Payment System has deployed technology to combine a Web transaction portal with electronic declaration services at the point of sale.

The ATM Industry Association named Gregory Sahrmann and Steve Gernes as co-chairs of the nonprofit trade association's U.S. board of directors.