Technology

The mobile billing company Boku and entertainment giant Sony now allow consumers in the U.K. to purchase content from Sony's PlayStation Store by adding the charges to their mobile phone accounts.

Telecommunications company Everything Everywhere Ltd., operating as EE in the U.K., will offer a new mobile payments service to its customers July 17.

MasterCard Inc. asked the European Union’s highest court to overturn a regulatory decision on transaction fees that ended its ability to set rates on cross- border credit-card payments.

Green Dot is taking a cautious approach to accepting remotely deposited personal checks — so cautious that it runs the risk of alienating customers and putting at risk tens of millions of dollars in investments at GoBank, its recently launched branchless operation.

The creation of mobile wallets sparked a battle between retailers and wallet providers over the control of consumer data, and the evolution of card-linked services has the potential to stray into a similar minefield.

Intuit's decision to shed its digital banking division demonstrates the technology developer's position that banks aren’t the only way to marry merchant services with consumer mobile payments.

The Chicago Transit Authority is planning an August launch for its new fare system that will allow retail and fare payments from the same card.The open standards fare system is called Ventra and was developed through a partnership between Cubic Transportation Systems, MasterCard and First Data. With it, Chicago transit riders can pay for fares on the city's elevated trains (called the "L"), buses and subway that are all operated by the CTA, as well as suburban bus line fares for routes operated by a separate transit authority called Pace.

Payment Alliance International sees an opportunity in the recent fallout of processors, banks, lenders and merchant services vendors that won't work with the firearms industry, and developed a program to provide its processing services to legitimate gun dealers.

Western Union and Commercial Bank of Dubai will launch a co-branded prepaid payroll card in the United Arab Emirates.

Mobile and online payment network RentMoola has partnered with Landlord Web Solutions to offer Web and mobile payments to property managers in Canada.