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Roam, Ingenico's mobile point of sale subsidiary, has partnered with services provider EVO Payments International to market Roam's technology to U.S. merchants.

Powa is launching a bundled mobile point of sale offering, called PowaPOS, which U.S. merchants can use to accept EMV-chip cards.

CardFlight, a mobile payments hardware and software developer, has introduced a mobile point of sale device with an emphasis on branding.

There is much discussion around the demise of cash and quite rightly so. These are exciting times for the financial industry with substantial growth in payment innovation. Respondents to numerous surveys claim that they will use their mobile phone, contactless card and other alternative payments in the future and that they currently mostly pay for everything on card and over the Internet.

The merchants who want to use Leaf's tablet for payments, called LeafPresenter, often also need transaction services. Through the launch of its online marketplace, Leaf will now be ready to offer information from a host of merchant acquirers.

SCVNGR's LevelUp has begun a campaign to urge users of its mobile wallet to fund payments from a debit card instead of a credit card. The end goal is to get its transaction fees as low as possible, while filling a void left by merchants who switched away from another pricing model it boldly called Interchange Zero.

PayPal now offers the chip-and-PIN version of its PayPal Here mobile card reader to merchants in Australia.

Square is accelerating its integration with third parties to save the time and resources it would take to develop the business technology it needs to stay competitive in an increasingly sophisticated and crowded mobile payments marketplace.

Digital person-to-person payments, also known as social payments, have proliferated in the last few years, with the often-heard promise of providing an easier and faster way to split the dinner check.

Already a major card issuer in the military market, Navy Federal Credit Union is working to expand its merchant services business through new agreements with Square and TSYS.

McDonald's customers in Thailand now have the option to make credit card payments to a mobile device as part of the McDelivery 1711 service.

A road map for regulation of virtual currency is beginning to emerge as more states appear willing to issue licenses for entities offering exchange and other services.

Payzone, a provider of payment technology for retail stores, hotels and restaurants, is planning to offer Seamless' SEQR mobile wallet to its approximately 20,000 clients.

Navy Federal Credit Union is promoting Square's mobile card reader and payment processing services to its small-business members.

Square is making all of its payment apps in available in Spanish in an effort to attract Latino merchants in the U.S.

Mobile payments company I Love Velvet has joined the Samsung Solutions Exchange, which provides business owners with tools and applications for Samsung devices.

Payleven is launching a new chip and PIN card reader that's capable of accepting Near Field Communication contactless payments, with the aim of cutting costs for European merchants.

Wine may improve with age, but point of sale technology does not. Years ago, when ShopKeep POS founder Jason Richelson operated the Green Grape wine store in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, he struggled so often with archaic point of sale systems that it motivated him to develop his own alternative.

London-based Flypay Ltd. plans to end what it refers to as the "10-minute restaurant bill chase" at the end of a meal by offering a mobile application that speeds up payment while providing more customer data to restaurant owners.

Digicash Payments, a Luxembourg-based mobile payments provider, is testing a system that uses a beacon at the point of sale to accept payments using Bluetooth, Near Field Communication and QR codes.