Technology

Swedish mobile payment company Seamless has introduced its SEQR mobile wallet in Belgium in collaboration with bpost bank, with an initial deployment at Belgian McDonald’s locations.

WorldPay has entered a five-year partnership to support payment processing for Direct Card Solutions, which specializes in serving the entertainment industry.

U.S. Bank has launched a travel payments engine that provides unique identifiers for each transaction instead of a centralized billing umbrella.

Even if it takes the payments industry months to respond to Google's use of Host Card Emulation, which simulates the signal from a Near Field Communication chip, the technology is a potential game changer.

The payment processor Planet Payment has named Carl Williams as its president.

Heartland Payment Systems will be a distributor of American Express Merchant Financing, a program that allows small businesses to obtain credit based on annual card processing volume.

Google Inc. sent a few tremors through the payments industry when announcing its newest Android operating system can perform contactless payments without high-level access to NFC hardware. No one could blame SimplyTapp CEO Doug Yeager if he were cheering Google on from the sidelines.

Banks may soon bear more responsibility for raising red flags about the conduct of businesses that use the automated clearing house payments network.

More small merchants are starting to comply with the Payment Card Industry security standards, which describe how to protect card data, but many merchants still do not have an incident response plan in case of a data breach.

Former First Data CFO Cheryl King will assume the same position at PaySpan, a health care payment automation company.