Technology

Business owners in Southeast Asia who use Bangkok Bank's payment services will be able to accept cards on the Discover Global Network, under an agreement with Discover's Diners Club International Ltd.

Intuit Inc., a longtime frenemy of banks, may end up raising the bar for mobile financial services with its latest acquisition.

B2B payments technology provider IQ Back Office insists that many companies can turn their accounts payable department into profit centers by using electronic and virtual card payments for vendor invoices.

Orderbird says it is ready to migrate into new markets after adding 400 new customers for its iPad-based point of sale system in recent months and adding payments industry veterans to its supervisory board.

Parx, a subsidiary of On Track Innovations Ltd., has signed a 20-year parking space management contract with Albania's TIS Ltd.

A Near Field Communication patent application Apple Inc. submitted 18 months ago might demonstrate how future iPhones would make contactless payments at the point of sale.

Youth payments company Oink, formerly Virtual Piggy, is expanding its international e-commerce presence by working with the payment service company GlobalCollect.

Dwolla is expanding its next-day payments network to all business customers after launching it initially for government agencies and large corporations.

WASHINGTON — Banks are still feeling negative effects from last year's sudden rise in medium- and long-term interest rates, but plenty of signs in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s latest industry update continue to point to a lending resurgence in the near future.

MeaWallet is prepping to launch in a number of countries, and it is starting in Sweden through the use of a nationalized authentication standard.