Technology

E-commerce payments processor 2Checkout is attempting to win over businesses by enabling the potential clients to accept transactions before it fully vets them.

Corethree Ltd. is providing a mobile ticketing application to those who use the First U.K. Bus fleet in Great Britain.

BBVA Compass has been fast to flesh out the payments capabilities of its mobile banking app, and this work has attracted a growing and engaged mobile customer base.

Fiserv Inc., which operates the Accel debit network, has agreed to make MasterCard's common application identifier technology available for routing EMV debit transactions.

Starbucks, which handles more than 11% of its weekly transactions as payments from its mobile app, is planning to add several new features for iPhone owners.

Contactless card payments are building a fan base in the United Kingdom, where their use has spiked in the past year, but the product is still a long way from replacing magnetic-stripe cards.

Preparing for a Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance assessment is a major task for any size organization.

The growing complexity of technology is forcing payments providers to ask whether they are better off becoming one-stop shops or building a network of partners to fill out their offering.

EMVCo, the EMV standard governing body has released specifications for payment tokenization, a process that it says will strengthen security on card-not-present transactions initiated by EMV-chip cards.

The payments processor TSYS has added features to its Credit Care tool to improve data access for banks and cardholders.