Allied Payment Network, an online payments company in Fort Wayne, Ind., released a new platform for small-businesses payments.

Alibaba's cooperation with Apple may start with offering Apple Pay in the Chinese market through an intermediary to skirt regulatory hurdles, Alibaba Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai told a Chinese-language news wire.

Xapo, a bitcoin startup headed by financial services entrepreneur Wences Casares, is launching its wallet app on iOS, a move that shows the company has turned some attention to ease of use.

Uber, the ubiquitous black-car company that popularized the use of mobile apps to book rides, will switch to a two-tiered payment system to continue operations in India.

Check, a mobile payments and financial management provider owned by Intuit, has completed updates to two of its mobile apps.

Square Inc. may have more incentive than other acquirers in urging merchant clients to accept EMV-chip cards, but its pricing strategy could deter some from adopting the secure technology.

Space Coast Credit Union will work with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment and banking service provider headquartered in Naples, Fla., for its online and mobile banking as well as electronic payments.

Alibaba needs help to build a market in the West and is openly courting cooperation with Apple and PayPal, suggesting sweeping e-commerce alliances and even acquisitions may soon follow.

There is lots of talk about mobile payments and where banks play, but the real opportunity has less to do with payments and more to do with “mobile commerce services," or all of those things banks (and merchants) can do via mobile to attract, engage, motivate and reinforce customer relationships to protect existing revenue streams and create new ones.

MasterCard has emphasized prepaid cards to replace cash as a first step to extend financial services to the underbanked, and is adding mobile technology to add more services to its financial inclusion initiative.

American Express Global Payments is adding cloud-based software from Intacct, a move that can make it easier to automate corporate payments, which still include paper-based processes.

Security passwords that have become common for e-commerce transactions and financial accounts translate poorly to mobile devices, fueling consumers' bad habits regarding weak or reused passwords.

The launch of Apple Pay last month was undoubtedly a defining moment in the evolution of mobile payments.

JPMorgan Chase and Co. will update its QuickPay person-to-person mobile payments app because the consumer experience could be better, according to Chase CEO of consumer and community banking Gordon Smith.

Remittance incumbents and digital startups are aggressively dismissing each other in public statements, though both sides have distinct advantages in the battle to control the expanding remittance payments market.

Merchants are enticed by the lure of the huge e-commerce market in China, enough to give a number of early client wins to Alipay's U.S. merchant acquisition effort.

The much-anticipated launch of Apple's mobile wallet was followed by a series of minor disasters for the fledgling payment system. Apple must overcome all of these obstacles if Apple Pay is to succeed.

U.S. Bank, which has been aggressively building business payments technology, is adding Viewpost’s electronic invoice and payment network to the bank's website.

Seeking to help its clients benefit from consumers who increasingly shop online or through mobile devices, GoDaddy Operating Co. LLC has launched its online store product for small businesses.

As payments leave plastic behind, the pressure is on banks to stay in front of merchants and consumers. But in its pilots of payment-capable wristbands, Royal Bank of Canada is finding that there are some areas that banks should steer clear of.