PayItSimple USA Inc., which enables installment payments for merchants and consumers, has integrated with online payment processor Stripe.

The central bank is floating the concept of using the Internet to facilitate the direct clearing of transactions between financial institutions, which would likely diminish its own role in the U.S. payment system.

MoneyGram has extended its relationship with SBI Remit in Japan, providing services both online and through walk-in locations to customers in Japan who want to transfer funds internationally.

Sionic Mobile, an Atlanta-based mobile commerce company, released its Shop2Give app to the public today. The new app is designed to enable nonprofits to raise funds through consumers' mobile payment activity.

Mozido LLC is buying its way into China, giving it a head start as big companies like Apple also eye the country's payments market.

JetBlue Airways will become the first domestic carrier to accept Apple Pay.

Wirecard, a German digital payments company, is introducing a software development kit to provide payment capabilities via wearable devices.

Transpay is launching a mass payout feature which allows users of its cross-border payments platform to send funds to a recipient's bank account within minutes.

For two and a half years, Celine Lazorthes and her team at Leetchi, a group-payment provider for gifts and events, struggled with the regulatory requirements needed to become an e-money issuer in Europe.

Samsung is widely reported to be adding mobile-payment technology from LoopPay to its next Galaxy smartphone. Such an approach would be vastly different from that of Apple, PayPal or MCX's CurrentC — and it would address a key issue with LoopPay's own business model.

The flood of mobile-centric point of sale (POS) offering provides many options for retailers, but there's still a long road ahead to adoption on the consumer side.

Amazon.com is a savvy and influential company in the e-commerce world, but its efforts in payments have been less consistent. It has significantly changed the way people redeem rewards and shop on third-party sites, but it has proven less successful in person-to-person payments and the mobile point of sale.

The head of the Federal Communications Commission is pushing hard against charging fees for faster Internet access, a stance that's a relief to businesses like Dwolla that use the Internet to develop and deliver payment services.

CardFlight has updated its SwipeSimple mobile point of sale device, which allows merchants to take payments and manage their business from smartphones and tablets.

Discover, the only major U.S. card brand not connected to Apple Pay, is thus one of the few major credit card issuers not shoehorning Apple into its ads. But Discover has never been one to ignore a marketing opportunity.

Mobile wallets are typically designed to be most useful at the point of sale. Israeli location-based technology vendor WiseSec sees an opportunity to extend a mobile app's utility throughout the store by using beacons that can sense how far away a shopper is.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s finance arm agreed to buy a 25% stake in One97 Communications Ltd., owner of an online payments processor, to tap into India's growing e-commerce industry.

Mobile payments provider Spindle will provide aggregation technology to EggZack to resell to mobile point of sale and e-commerce merchants.

There have been many attempts in recent years to convince issuers and consumers to store multiple payment accounts in a single high-tech card, typically with an emphasis on consumer choice. A new approach uses the same technology but packs in data analytics to take some of that choice out of consumers' hands.

PayPal is starting the year without its vice president and general manager of retail and prepaid of the past four years.