Technology

Payments industry veteran Dickson Chu joined Ingo Money as the company's corporate development and chief product officer.

CardFlight intends to incorporate Apple's fingerprint scanning technology into SwipeSimple, its mobile payment application for businesses.

By now it is clear that banks' younger customers are there for the taking, should a strong digital brand like Amazon, Google or PayPal ever court them for banking services.

Apple Inc. changed its policy to let software developers include virtual-currency transactions in their applications, paving the way for new forms of money like bitcoin to appear on iPhones and iPads.

Xapo says its Bitcoin debit card will start rolling out by the end of June, and it will be accepted anywhere by using the rails of a card network, interchange fees included.

Irvine, Calif.-based chip maker and electronics provider Broadcom applied for a patent for multiple Near Field Communication antennas in an NFC device around the same time Apple Inc. did in 2012.

Online cash payment provider Ukash has partnered with the Touch network in Australia.

Apple is fine-tuning its mobile purchasing capabilities, adding parental controls and voice commands to digital content purchases and extending its TouchID fingerprint authentication system to third-party developers.

Merchants seeking a court ruling that would cause the Federal Reserve Board to re-establish debit cap fees at a lower rate want more time to consider bringing the case to the Supreme Court.

Payza, a London-based payment technology firm, has simplified its process for enrolling new users.