Technology

BillingTree is giving consumers a test drive of its systems for handling car payments electronically.

Five years after the enactment of major reforms to the U.S. credit-card market, industry opposition has quietly faded into acceptance. Bankers certainly aren't celebrating the 2009 legislation, but they're not condemning it, either.

South Africa-based Standard Bank will formally launch its SnapScan mobile payment application to more than 10,000 merchants across the country, allowing them to accept payments from customers using QR codes and PINs.

Airtel Money and Total Oil are rolling out a mobile payment service for consumers in Uganda to purchase fuel and make in-store purchases with their Airtel accounts at Total gas stations.

McDonald's Austria has launched a mobile ordering and payment app, Quick Mac, which allows customers to pay with the most common cashless payment options in the country.

Authentify Inc. says its new mobile authentication platform will work with the Samsung Galaxy S5's built-in fingerprint reader.

Global Payments Inc. has promoted David Mangum to the role of president and chief operating officer and hired Cameron Bready to succeed Mangum as chief financial officer.

Merchants are fighting fraud with machine-learning systems, a self-updating alternative to rules-based fraud detection methods.

As InComm takes the platform it developed for Rogers Communications' suretap mobile wallet to new regions, it's mindful that the system should adapt to the needs of each market.

Russia's Sberbank, the third largest bank in Europe, will use Host Card Emulation technology for its mobile payments initiatives as a way to eliminate players and cut the costs of deployment.