Merchant

Cashcloud SA, a start-up venture in Luxembourg, is testing a mobile wallet and rewards currency throughout much of Europe.

With an eye toward making sure more small and medium-size merchants are aware of the need to comply with the Payment Card Industry data security standards, Dallas-based acquirer SignaPay will utilize ControlScan services.

It took three years to build a portfolio of 3,000 merchants at Unified Payments, an independent sales organization based in North Miami Beach, Fla. A year after the ISO started its charitable giving subsidiary, Process Pink Payments, that number reached 5,000. By the end of 2012, it reached 15,000 merchants for Process Pink and more than 100,000 merchants overall.

One of the first successful adopters of in-store mobile payments and digital rewards, Starbucks plans to launch new initiatives that will expand the company’s loyalty and payment programs across channels.

Heartland Payment Systems and SCVNGR's LevelUp are taking their merchant services and payments bundle, which they earlier tested in a handful of cities, nationwide.

Leaf, a company that offers a payments-specific tablet, is opening to more processors in an effort to lure merchants away from Square and other point of sale acceptance companies.

A pending MasterCard "staged wallet" fee, set to take effect in June, is setting a new tone for the emerging payments landscape.

VeriFone promoted its executive vice president of operations to the role of chief operating officer and appointed three other executives to regional president posts, the point of sale terminal manufacturer announced this week.

Visa Inc. now counts Overstock.com Inc. among the list of retailers accepting its V.me digital wallet.