ISO & Agent

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.

When the latest "As Seen on TV" must-have gadget appears on-screen, consumers may someday be able to make the first of their payments by pressing a few buttons on their remote control. It may seem far-fetched, but it's a future that Ingenico chairman and CEO Philippe Lazare says is well within reach.

Flash Valet, which uses mobile technology to facilitate payments for valet service providers, is creating a companion mobile app for consumers.

VeriFone has made several attempts to become a major player in mobile payments. A few months after altering its strategy with its second mobile card reader, the terminal maker says it is still learning.

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

MasterCard is planning to rapidly broaden the scale and scope of its digital wallet and prepaid card offerings.

ControlScan Inc. says it has developed a way to eliminate the technology and security challenges merchants face when trying to expand into mobile or online commerce.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc.'s executive chairman and CEO, Robert Carr, leaves little doubt as to where he sees his company's mobile pay future heading — attached to the wagon of mobile-payment pioneers such as LevelUp.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a partner in the Merchant Customer Exchange mobile payments initiative, weighed in on two other payment technologies today: Stripe and PayPal.

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.

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.

Merchants have a vastly different receptiveness and understanding of the U.S. conversion to EMV-chip payment cards, and VeriFone is taking a diverse approach to appealing to them all.

Nintendo built a Near Field Communication chip into the tablet-like controller of the Wii U game console it launched late last year, and the video-game giant says it is now considering using that chip for payments.

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.

Square Inc., the payments startup founded by Twitter Inc. Chairman Jack Dorsey, is adding features to target the restaurant industry as it moves beyond individual merchants such as dog walkers and taxi drivers.

Snapfinger Inc. designed its mobile payment app for its restaurant clients to better gather data on their guests.

Many companies in the payments industry have strong, influential women as top executives. These women rarely had a clear path ahead of them when they started out.

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.