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BBVA will launch a trial of the V.me digital wallet with Visa Europe next month, making it the latest bank to support Visa’s digital wallet and the first in Spain to do so.

European parking lot company Q-Park will begin offering consumers the ability to pay for parking with devices that adhere to the EMV payment standard.

Security services firm ControlScan has partnered with payment processor Allifide Merchant Group to provide small and medium-sized businesses compliance services for Payment Card Industry security standards.

Banks in the path of Hurricane Sandy braced Sunday for the storm's arrival, while making plans to help their operations weather it without interruption.

Tim Murphy, chief product officer at MasterCard Inc., spoke to PaymentsSource about why the industry needs the EMV standard, as well as the various challenges facing his company as the payments ecosystem moves into a new, technology-driven era.

Payment processing technology provider SecureNet has launched an instant merchant account boarding software that allows the merchant to begin accepting payments immediately, rather than endure a two-day wait.

Discover Financial Services and Google may be developing a partnership that would provide a “new way” to use Google Wallet, which today works primarily through Near Field Communication technology and a virtual MasterCard account.

Natural Security SAS has launched a contactless card payment system utilizing biometrics for authentication with its partner banks in France.

As Wright Express Corp. expands internationally and creates new products not solely focused on the freight community, it decided it was appropriate to pick a new name. Wright Express now calls itself WEX Inc.

In recent months, several payments industry players have expanded north into Canada, benefiting from the country's similar financial landscape and largely absent language barrier, but sometimes slowed by differences in regulation and technology.

As Isis launched its long-awaited mobile wallet test in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, many people flocked to try it out — and quickly reported their impressions over Twitter.

A proposed settlement of a merchants’ lawsuit over credit card fees that may cost Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and banks as much as $7.25 billion is probably worthy of approval, a federal judge said.

Paul Whitmore was direct and blunt in his assessment of the state of payments in the U.S. when he spoke at this week's Chicago Payments Symposium at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: "I've been sitting here for two days, wondering how did you get yourself into this mess?"

Dwolla now allows users to make payments in batches, a feature designed to elevate the service beyond person-to-person payments and turn it into a viable tool for business.

Huntington Bancshares, based in Columbus, Ohio, said it plans to add 250 jobs in the Buckeye State over the next four years to support its new credit card business.

Longtime banker Charlie Scharf seems like the safe choice to lead Visa. But for the world’s largest payments network, safe is usually smart.

Barnes & Noble has informed federal law enforcement authorities that "a sophisticated criminal effort" has potentially exposed customers' credit and debit card information to hackers who tampered with PIN pad devices at 63 of its stores.

Visa chief executive Joseph Saunders is retiring on November 1, the world’s largest payments network said today.

Square, which has been promising to expand internationally since it received a $25 million investment from Starbucks, said today it is making its mobile-pay product available in Canada.

The processor Total System Services Inc. has been through lot in its nearly three decades of existence, but nothing compares to the state of the payments industry today.