Technology

Google Wallet now offers a plastic Google Wallet debit card designed as an alternative to using a smartphone to pay at the point of sale.

U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis plans to join the American Express credit card network by fall 2014.

PayPal and MyCheck are going to New York's theater district to set the stage for mobile payments. The companies are targeting restaurants with MyCheck’s pay-at-the-table technology.

Shopkick has begun deploying Apple's iBeacon Bluetooth Low Energy technology, which alerts the shopkick mobile app when a consumer enters a store, at Macy’s locations in Herald Square in New York and Union Square in San Francisco.

European point of sale technology provider Spire will be the sole supplier of mobile chip and PIN payment devices for Smart TPE, Credit Agricole's mobile point of sale initiative in France.

Square has updated the design of its Square Register app in an attempt to improve user navigation and provide a consistent experience across different operating systems such as Google's Android and Apple's iOS 7.

RBS Citizens just finished a year in which it upgraded a large portion of its business payments technology, with an emphasis on mobile—and now it hopes to convince a younger generation of U.S. business executives to eliminate paper in treasury management.

DeviceFidelity Inc. has upgraded its iCaisse cover for iPhones to support the use of a SIM card as the secure element for Near Field Communication mobile payments.

Online PIN debit provider Acculynk now allows U.S. merchants to accept China UnionPay payments online.

Barclays Plc continues to position its Pingit person-to-person payment service as an option for all types of mobile payments in the U.K.