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Apple's Passbook wallet is a blank canvas for developers of mobile payment apps. Some Passbook apps take a conventional approach to payments, and others put a more imaginative spin on what a mobile wallet can be.

VeriFone's stock price recovered slightly upon CEO Bergeron's resignation, signaling investor interest, and competitor Pax Technology was quick to draw attention to recent speculation that VeriFone would be for sale.

Fleet card provider FleetCor Technologies has acquired Telenav, which sells technology that tracks the location of truck drivers and mobile workers who buy gas and make other work-related purchases while on the job.

Intuit is making Inuit Pay generally available in the UK, enabling businesses to accept credit and debit payments in person and over the phone.

The company’s new iPad app can perform many of the same functions as its iPhone app, such as accepting PayPal and swiped card payments. The iPad app is being targeted at businesses that require hardware more robust than an iPhone to accept payments, yet don’t have a point-of-sale system.

Canada is well ahead of the U.S. in its adoption of the EMV chip-card standard. That places BMO's Kevin Tait in a bit of a time warp, since a large part of BMO's corporate payments operations are in the U.S.

In an interview with PaymentsSource, Cohen describes the opportunities that arise for companies like Merchant Warehouse amid the rapid changes taking place in the payments industry.

American Express Co. faces many challenges over the way it operates, but the CEO's 2012 compensation signals that the company is focusing on its strengths.

Independent sales organizations and agents can use automated clearing house and credit card data to identify the most likely prospects for transaction services.

B+S, a German payment processor, will provide services that would give merchants in the UK the ability to accept card payments from Chinese tourists making purchases.

PayPal's recent updates to its software tools for developers provide a clue to its long-term plans for the Card.io, the mobile payments tech provider PayPal bought last year.

Doug Bergeron will step down from his roles as CEO and a board member at VeriFone, effective March 12, the point of sale terminal maker said today.

Payment systems provider ACI Worldwide has completed its acquisition of Online Resources Corp. in an all cash transaction for $3.85 per share—a deal that adds payments and financial services bulk to ACI.

Samsung and Visa will likely demonstrate the full potential of their contactless mobile payments alliance at this week’s unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S IV smartphone.

American Express is doing a lot to shed its image as the card for the elite. In recent years Amex has worked with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, video game companies and other new partners to win the favor of young adults.

Michael Duffy, president of Chase Paymentech, passed away Thursday night. He was 54. Dan Charron, the executive vice president of client services, has assumed the role of acting head of the Dallas-based merchant acquirer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase.

The move to align the Southwest Airlines and AirTran frequent flier credit cards under the same issuing bank is just one stop in the route toward the eventual merger of the two carriers' affinity programs.

With so much attention on cybercrime, it may be surprising to realize plastic cards remain an appealing target for theft.

Many times, marketing constraints can slow financial institutions' rollout of Fiserv's SpotPay card readers. Fiserv's new spotpay.com website addresses this concern without compromising the vendor's mission of offering the device almost exclusively through banks and credit unions.

Fraudsters are deploying a new malicious software attack that steals card data from consumers by making them believe they are providing extra authentication when shopping online, Trusteer reports.