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Starbucks attributes the widespread use of its mobile payments app to a "seismic change" in how consumers use mobile phones and social media. The company expects a further surge in adoption as its rewards system expands to grocery stores.

Payleven's EMV-chip mobile card reader has found a spot on Apple Inc.'s retail shelves in Europe and on the company's website.

Total System Services Inc. will continue to process payments for U.K.-based Nationwide Building Society, considered the largest building society in the world based on its assets and 15 million members.

Financial-technology and payments company FIS has named its president and chief operating officer, Gary Norcross, to its board of directors.

Clip, which sells mobile payments technology in Spanish-speaking markets, has developed a mobile card reader.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. joined more than 30 of the biggest U.S. retailers in objecting to a $7.25 billion antitrust settlement with Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over merchant fees, saying the deal is meaningless when card companies can continue to fix the charges.

Mike Passilla, JPMorgan Chase's new merchant services boss, didn't take a sledge hammer to the digital payment startups that are chewing away at incumbent payments companies, but his message was clear—Chase is one of the biggest guys on the block, and it plans to use its data and technology heft to win in the merchant acquiring game.

Retailers and the major card brands are throwing more legal punches at each other over the controversial proposed $7.25 billion swipe-fee settlement in a years-long anti-trust case.

New York City's newest public-transit option, which allows commuters to rent bicycles to get to work, got its first real road test today. Citigroup is contributing $41 million to be the chief sponsor and namesake, and MasterCard Inc. is behind the program's $6.5 million payment system.

In an increasingly crowded mobile card reader market, American Express Co. and Groupon have given a double-digit million euro investment to SumUp.

Google is adding a Chrome Wallet App to allow payments within apps that run in Google's Chrome browser.

Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. sued trade groups and retailers that rejected a $7.25 billion settlement in a price-fixing suit and asked a court to rule that the card companies' fee practices weren't illegal.

Unresolved issues surrounding American Airlines’ contract with Citibank, which issues its co-branded frequent flier credit card, threaten to derail the bankrupt airline’s efforts to reorganize and merge with US Airways, according to court documents Citi filed on May 24.

IP Commerce Inc., a startup backed by Venrock Inc. and Intel Corp.'s venture-capital arm, is shutting its key business, which handles credit-card processing for companies including Groupon Inc., citing competition.

Charge Anywhere LLC will have gateway software available when small U.S. merchants need to accept EMV-chip card payments with their smartphones.

Blaze Mobile is developing a new Near Field Communication mobile phone attachment that attempts to build a more open mobile wallet by allowing consumers to choose from a series of payment accounts.

Target Corp., Macy’s Inc. and other companies sued Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over credit-card and debit-card fees after retailers objected to a multibillion-dollar settlement of a similar suit.

Visa's hiring of former JPMorgan Chase executive Ryan McInerney to be its new president maintains the card network's bond with the top-tier bank.

Square announced expansion into Japan with updated Register features today, after seeing two executives, Alyssa Cutright and Alex Petrov, leave the mobile payments company.

AnywhereCommerce is introducing a card reader about the size of a Zippo lighter that plugs into the audio jacks of mobile devices to accept both magnetic-stripe and chip-and-signature EMV payment cards.