Visa and Kofax are attempting to simplify complex invoice payments in Asia by introducing technology into processes that have long been handled manually.

SignaPay, a payment processing company based in Irving, Texas, has acquired PayHub, a merchant services company in San Rafael, Calif.

Alipay, the payments affiliate of Alibaba, leads the market for online third-party payment services in China, according to a recent iResesarch, a Chinese market research firm.

As mobile commerce and other new technologies change the way people shop, fraudsters are changing their methods to adapt. Banks, fintech providers and consumers are all looking at security in new ways.

Virgin Money has struck a seven-year deal with the British financial tech company Monitise to develop the U.K. bank's mobile products.

Multi-account card providers Coin and Stratos Card have an EMV compliance gap that may prove problematic for their relationships with card issuers.

MasterCard will soon make its digital wallet available to consumers in China.

Payments innovation normally migrates to the U.S. from Canada, which is at a more advanced stage of deployment with EMV-chip cards and other technology. But that's not the case for business-to-business payments.

Zomato hasn't been able to add payment capabilities to its restaurant discovery app in its home base of India, but the company has found a more welcoming audience in Dubai, where it plans a pilot next month.

Sprint's Boost Mobile Wallet and Sprint Money Express have added features that allow users to buy and send electronic gift cards.

For Cubic Transportation Systems, the term "NextCity" describes a city in which consumers use a single account for transit and parking while making payments through a smart card or mobile app.

Dutch digital security company Gemalto and Chungwa Telecom, a Taiwanese firm, plan to commercially launch Near Field Communication-based mobile payment system for the telco's subscribers.

Stripe Inc. has raised $70 million in a financing round that values the digital-payments startup at $3.5 billion.

Nearly four years ago, U.S. Bancorp debuted a medical bracelet that could also make payments. The product was short-lived, but the bank is taking a fresh look at the advancement of wearable technology in recent years and its potential for payments and other financial functions.

Revel Systems plans to expand in Europe after securing a $1.2 million grant from Invest Northern Ireland.

Payvision has launched its global payment network in Canada through a partnership with Home Trust, a bank based in Toronto.

BlueSnap has launched a new system called ChargeLink to help businesses close sales over the phone.

Bitcoin wallet providers have had a touchy relationship with prepaid cards. But whether or not these companies care about plastic, they should care about how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's prepaid proposal affects them.

Mobile payments company Yapital has partnered with the German supermarket chain Wasgau to support smartphone payments with minimal technology upgrades.

Monitise has picked up some well-heeled backers to fuel its move into global markets, as MasterCard, Telefonica and Santander join to take a stake in the mobile technology company.