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Jusp, an Italian maker of mobile payment systems, is offering its technology on Nokia's Windows-based Lumia smartphones.

E-commerce has led to a rapid expansion of the options and methods of executing payments.

Square has removed its cloud-based Wallet app from the Apple iTunes and Google Play stores, apparently to make room for a new app called Square Order.

As more merchants demand mobile technology to accept payments in their stores, vendors like Total System Services must diversify their offerings.

Swedish mobile payment company iZettle has raised $55 million (€40 million) in Series C funding to expand its operations.

NCR Corp. has integrated its NCR Silver iPad point of sale system with Retail Intel, a cloud-based service provider that can pull in sales data from QuickBooks.

India's merchants are beginning to embrace mobile card readers, fueled by the nation's growing dependence on payment cards and smartphones.

Total Systems Services (TSYS) is partnering with ShopKeep POS to extend the processor's range of mobile and tablet-based point of sale offerings.

North American Bancard (NAB) is adding technology from Moki in an attempt to secure and manage its in-store mobile point of sale system.

For a technology still in the midst of evolving, mobile payments attract an overwhelming amount of interest. Competition between payment systems is intense — as the Wall Street Journal recently noted, AngelList’s mobile payments startup roster includes more than 640 players.

Key decision makers in the payments industry recently gathered for SourceMedia's 2014 Card Forum and Expo. They discussed the trends shaping the industry and their own strategies for surviving the challenges ahead. Here are a few highlights.

Revel Systems is offering a new accessibility bundle for its tablet-based point of sale system.

Square has launched an order-ahead feature and other services to boost its appeal to brick-and-mortar merchants, but history has shown that merchants can be fickle about which features they'll pay more to use.

Apple is interviewing payments industry executives, according to the technology news site Recode, suggesting the computing giant is getting closer to launching a payments operation.

Card-linked marketing is a useful but underused method to reach consumers, according to a new survey of chief marketing officers by Bank of America and The CMO Club.

Square is seeking a buyer, according to multiple reports, but the company's official statement indicates otherwise.

A successful e-business has two essential ingredients. It must be easy to make payments, and it must come up quickly when consumers are searching online.

SCVNGR's LevelUp is reducing its mobile wallet's transaction fee from 2% to 1.95% in its continued attempt to shave interchange costs.

An engineering student at Lund University in Sweden has created software that allows shoppers to pay for food by scanning their hands.

Mobile wallets and mobile point of sale systems have tried many tactics to win over merchants by cutting costs. Some vendors have been extremely inventive in how they push cheaper payment options.