Bank technology

PayPal reported a jump in revenue in the fourth quarter, driven in part by mobile payments.

PayPal, which has been testing a point of sale payment system with Home Depot, plans this week to expand that trial and offer consumers a card linked to their PayPal accounts.

The Monrovia, Calif., prepaid card company said Mark Troughton, who has been with Green Dot almost since its inception, will leave at the end of the month.

The Texan community bank is using new mobile apps to deliver consumer perks, protect payment cards and tailor content for specific customer segments.

Users gave high ranks to the sites for ease of use and technical quality.

Amex is licensing its digital wallet to Lianlian Group to expand its reach into the coveted Chinese market. Lianlian operates its own mobile payment business, Lianlian Pay, in China.

Prepaid card provider nFinanSe Inc. has asked the U.S. District Court in Atlanta to stop InComm Inc. from operating its new Vanilla Reload Network.

With so much attention on turning mobile phones into payment devices through hardware upgrades, banks may be missing a growing opportunity in the mobile Web browser.

The Zappos data breach, wherein thieves stole partial credit-card numbers from the shoe-marketing giant, may demonstrate that merchants have taken key steps to prevent the theft of full account numbers.

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argenteria of Madrid and Google have teamed up to offer forecasts on economic activity for certain sectors within Spain.

Ingenico is working with PayPal on what the companies say is a faster way to improve the point of sale than investing in contactless mobile payments.

Wikipedia and the White House have weighed in against SOPA. If payments processors and banks don't want to be front-line enforcers of copyrights, now's the time to lobby for changes.

IBM has unveiled new collaboration software and services that will allow companies to apply analytics to their internal communications and store data in the cloud.

Daymond John, the founder of the FUBU clothing brand and a star of the ABC reality series "Shark Tank," offered bankers and payments executives some advice on picking up girls - er, customers.

Celent research finds that by 2013, 15 of the largest 25 banks will offer corporate mobile banking.

Microsoft is making its Kinect motion controller easier to use in banking settings. Kinect, which was designed to be a hands-free video game controller, has already been used to allow a Russian bank's customers to interact with a window display.

Ingenico has begun integrating PayPal's payment system with its point of sale terminals.

"Wallet" doesn't actually provide mobile payments, but collects rewards points for other mobile wallet programs.

The Spanish bank will distribute 1 million contactless cards, 17,000 contactless payment terminals and 500 contactless-card-reading ATMs in the city.

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