American Express' Serve prepaid account has its roots as a digital wallet, but the card issuer is finding many of its enrollments are coming through a very non-digital process: in-person activations at mobile phone stores.

UOL BoaCompra and Ubisoft are partnering to allow online personal computer gamers in Latin America, Portugal, Spain and Turkey greater access to local payment methods.

Apple is interviewing payments industry executives, according to the technology news site Recode, suggesting the computing giant is getting closer to launching a payments operation.

JPMorgan Chase will build on its developments in tokenization for a digital wallet that it plans to roll out by the end of the year.

Domino's Pizza customers with Android devices can now pay for their pizza through the Google Wallet.

Square is seeking a buyer, according to multiple reports, but the company's official statement indicates otherwise.

A successful e-business has two essential ingredients. It must be easy to make payments, and it must come up quickly when consumers are searching online.

Biometric technology could eliminate the need to carry a payment card or even a smartphone by allowing users to authorize payments with a fingerprint, handprint, face or retina scan. But the technology has had a rocky past, and each new product comes with new quirks.

WorldPay opened its first China sales office to help it reach more merchants who accept payments online.

Creditron and MediStreams are teaming to automate payments processing for small to mid-sized health care practices, which typically manage transactions and consumer records manually.

Many e-commerce merchants are not set up to accept the payment methods local to Brazil, Russia, India and China (referred to as the BRIC nations), and BlueSnap aims to work with these merchants through a series of new templates.

Optimal Payments and Caesars Interactive Entertainment have expanded their partnership for online gaming payment processing.

Payment technology provider Merchant Warehouse has agreed to market services from the hospitality mobile payments vendor TabbedOut.

SCVNGR's LevelUp is reducing its mobile wallet's transaction fee from 2% to 1.95% in its continued attempt to shave interchange costs.

Fitness4Less plans to cut its costs for handling payments by 80% by switching from a third-party payment processor to a system it controls in-house through an application programming interface (API) from Fundtech.

Winning in the mobile world means driving revenues, acquiring new customers, and accelerating transactions. Mobile capture apps need open platforms and frameworks for apps that can be optimized for multiple uses and customized for their organization’s documents, customers, user experience and requirements.

The restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings will use the NCR Aloha Online Ordering system in its 1,000 company-owned and franchised locations in an effort to improve its takeout ordering business.

Ten years from now, members of the acquiring industry may have fond recollections of the nation's transition to mobile payments, says Brian Mooney, CEO of Bank of America Merchant Services.

Santander's Polish subsidiary is linking its mobile banking app to a merchant marketplace where purchases of deliveries, flowers and transit fare can be funded directly from the user's bank account.

International translation service Welocalize has found payments to be a particularly tough language to crack, so it's embarking on a technology project that's designed to improve the system it uses to pay its many diverse business partners.