Technology

In the latest intersection of social media and financial services, “The End of Money” author David Wolman is selling digital copies of his book on Twitter for four days.

Apple introduced its Passbook app — a wallet that stores other mobile wallets — alongside the iPhone 5 in September. Three months later, has Passbook revolutionized mobile payments? Or is it starving from lack of support?

Capital Access Network, Inc., a small-business finance provider, has named an advisory board to guide the launch and growth of its latest offering to small businesses, CapTap.

Merchant Warehouse, a Boston-based ISO, has certified Combase USA as an integrated partner on the Merchant Warehouse Genius ITX Customer Engagement Platform.

If prepaid card providers want to be taken seriously, please, please, please ditch your celebrity partners.

U.S. Bank in Minneapolis has committed to becoming the first large U.S. bank to offer mobile bill payment in the manner of mobile check deposit—letting users pay a bill by simply taking a picture of it with the camera on their smartphone or tablet.

Online payments provider Optimal Payments Ltd. established the foundation for expanding its payment gateways to U.S. merchants and prepaid business in Europe with separate deals announced this week.

Payment Alliance International, a Louisville, Ky.-based ISO and independent ATM supplier, is working with Cash Connect, a supplier of cash vault services, to offer vault cash and cash forecasting.

Discover Financial Services said that its board has approved a change in the company’s fiscal yearend from Nov. 30 to Dec. 31 of each year.

Clearent's new application status report gives ISOs and agents insight into the status of merchant applications.