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Google has reinvented its mobile wallet a few times, and its latest reinvention, a rumored plastic card, raises questions about the mobile-pay product’s direction.

For retailers, buying a new point of sale payment system is becoming as easy as buying a stapler or a sheaf of paper. Staples has begun selling several pieces of hardware revolving around NCR’s point of sale system called Silver.

At first, payments players were wary of the LevelUp mobile-pay system, but the startup behind it is fast building relationships with the very companies it could potentially disrupt.

Hundreds of retailers opposed to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc.’s proposed $7.25 billion settlement of a merchant fee price-fixing case will try to convince a federal judge the deal should be thrown out.

In an effort to better serve its overseas customers, VeriFone has begun rolling out a version of its mobile payments system, Sail, that accepts EMV-chip cards.

American Express' directors were sued by a shareholder over practices that led to a $112.5 million settlement of claims that it violated consumer safeguards.

Discover Financial Services will pilot Natural Security’s hands-free biometrics payment system at its Riverwoods, Ill., headquarters, the companies announced this week.

Several months after Starbucks announced it was investing $25 million in Square, it has begun accepting the mobile-pay company's digital wallet at its roughly 7,000 retail stores.

American Express has been inching its way downmarket through a series of partnerships with companies involved in social media and online games. Its latest move may be its biggest yet — Amex is paying cardholders for playing and completing the latest installment in the massively popular Halo video game series.

Payments provider Elavon will use Ingenico's new Telium2 series countertop and wireless terminals for its customers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

VeriFone announced that Glob Taxi Co. of Warsaw, Poland has chosen its payments technology for in-cab transactions.

Hurricane Sandy reduced U.S. retail sales in the northeast by about $4 billion last week, according to MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse.

For CreditCall, the slow pace of the U.S. shift to the EMV standard is fast becoming an opportunity.

Facebook's latest update to its mobile app is meant to allow the social network's users to purchase physical goods as gifts from within the app.

With a community-based state charter, Veridian Credit Union isn’t supposed to have members outside its market in Iowa. And yet the credit union has been handling funds nationwide for the alternative payment company Dwolla since 2009.

Lemon is working with BillGuard, which provides a transaction monitoring service, to boost its mobile wallet's security and perhaps also boost the wallet's appeal among consumers.

Issuers and merchants have heard the card brands’ pitch that without EMV smart card adoption in the U.S., fraudsters will flock to this country because it will become a weak link in the data security chain.

The storm left many without electricity, phones and use of the roads. But in many of the affected areas, consumers and merchants continued to conduct business and found a way to handle payments.

NXP Semiconductors has developed a touch sensor that could combat thieves using a mobile scanner to attempt to steal account details from contactless payment cards.

American Express is seeking to lure gamers by awarding special deals to Xbox 360 players tied to their performance in the soon-to-be-released “Halo 4” video game.