Merchant

PayPal's cloud-based mobile wallet, which authenticates shoppers by presenting a photo of their face to the cashier, has arrived in the U.K.

Building on an earlier partnership, Isis and American Express are integrating their software and allowing Isis mobile wallet users to access their Isis accounts with Amex's Serve prepaid cards.

Honey, which obtains coupon codes for consumers who shop online, plans to use its data management and analytic tools to enable merchants to offer coupons directly to Honey users in real time.

CenPOS has integrated Ingenico terminals into its could-based payments platform, a move that's designed to enable both mobile payments and EMV-chip card acceptance at automotive dealerships and other specialty merchants.

Bango, a direct carrier billing provider, has integrated with Mozilla's Firefox Marketplace, allowing consumers to charge digital purchases to their phone bill.

PayPal's new partnership with Alliance Data spans multiple products at both companies, but it has barely scratched the surface of what the two payments providers say is possible.

Mercury Payment Systems LLC now offers software tools for application developers to use to enroll merchants online for Mercury's payment processing and card services.

The national mortgage delinquency rate (the rate of borrowers 60 or more days past due) continued its decline in 2013, dropping to 4.09% through the end of the second quarter, nearly 26% lower than the year-ago period. Since last quarter, the mortgage delinquency rate has fallen 10%.

MoneyGram will enable PayPal's 55 million U.S. accountholders to withdraw funds from their accounts at MoneyGram locations.

PayPal plans to fuel the expansion of its in-store payment system by using services from retail card loyalty and marketing company Alliance Data Systems.