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The terminal maker VeriFone Systems Inc. has signed a two-year contract with China Payment and Remittance Service to provide managed services for up to 100,000 of the company's point of sale devices.

Corporate payments services provider Wex will now offer its travel booking and payment automation service to businesses in Brazil.

U.S. Bancorp is developing a voice command mobile application to allow users to speak payment-related commands into the mobile device.

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and some dispensaries enjoy millions of dollars in annual sales. However, such establishments may not be ideal clients for ISOs unless they and their sale agents exercise caution, say those who work with the medical marijuana industry.

Ian Hermon, product marketing manager at Plantation, Fla.-based Thales e-Security Inc. spoke to PaymentsSource about the obstacles and options facing the U.S. payments industry during its multiyear migration to EMV cards.

There's a lot payment companies can lean from downfall of the Pony Express, according to Brett King, founder of the financial services startup of Moven.

Global Payments will begin offering merchants currency conversion services at their point of sale terminals through an integration with Planet Payment.

Datacard Group is offering a new CD820 instant card issuance system which can support contact and contactless EMV-chip cards.

ACI Worldwide has launched the ACI Universal Payments Platform, throwing its hat into a busy ring of companies building technology to allow financial institutions, processors and retailers to keep up with the nimble startups and other factors that are reshaping the payments industry.

The C-1 electric car is an inventive vehicle, built by a company with an inventive marketing strategy and an inventive way of accepting payments.

When PayPal begins distributing the EMV-chip card version of its PayPal Here mobile card reader in the U.K. this year, it will follow a pattern the eBay unit established in the U.S. of targeting a narrower market than its rivals do.

Alternative digital payments for the on-the-go consumer go well beyond the standard fare of Near Field Communication chips and QR codes. Here’s a look at some of the most imaginative mobile payments options devised.

If there's a sliver of good news to come out of the data breach affecting an estimated 2.4 million payment cards at St. Louis-based Schnucks grocery store chain, it's that the card data didn't come attached to a loyalty program.

Utimaco Safeware on April 23 plans to launch new security technology that uses open development techniques to protect parts of payment transactions.

ACI Worldwide's Money Transfer System successfully processed about 15 million transactions per hour during tests of various end-to-end payments processing scenarios, the company said April 18.

First Data is offering a new way to set up its card management technology, VisionPlus, to reduce cost and the upfront work of deployment.

Because consumers are using mobile devices to check product prices or seek cheaper prices online, merchants need plans in place to move consumers to fast checkout and payment inside stores, says Peter Lin, program manager for mobile commerce for Sears Holdings Corp.

The simple act of using the mobile phone to make a payment opens up an entire new world of commerce, says Brian McCabe, vice president of day to day banking at Scotiabank. Mobile payment tech is advancing quickly in Canada, and the Toronto-based Scotiabank is building out its strategy.

The chief communications officer of Visa Inc. will leave the company at the end of May as part of the card network's merger of its corporate relations and marketing departments.

The use of ultrasonic noise — silent to the human ear — in mobile payments and rewards hasn't garnered as much attention as Near Field Communication chips and QR codes, but there are a few successful implementations.