Digital payments
Digital payments
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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.
April 17 -
Optimal Payments and Caesars Interactive Entertainment have expanded their partnership for online gaming payment processing.
April 16 -
Payment technology provider Merchant Warehouse has agreed to market services from the hospitality mobile payments vendor TabbedOut.
April 16 -
SCVNGR's LevelUp is reducing its mobile wallet's transaction fee from 2% to 1.95% in its continued attempt to shave interchange costs.
April 16 -
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.
April 16 -
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 organizations documents, customers, user experience and requirements.
April 16 -
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.
April 15 -
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.
April 15 -
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.
April 15 -
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.
April 14 -
Mobile wallets and mobile point of sale systems have tried many tactics to win over merchants by cutting costs. Some vendors have been extremely inventive in how they push cheaper payment options.
April 11 -
After years of speculation, Apple Inc. may finally launch a contactless mobile payments system with its rumored smartwatch.
April 11 -
The thaw between eBay Inc. and investor Carl Icahn began a month ago over dinner at the activist's New York City apartment.
April 11 -
You can't make everyone happy. This seems especially true for developing a Web payment standard to appease a vast number of stakeholders and interests.
April 11 -
The future belongs to mobile payments, but that future remains unclear, as many competing technologies are vying for consumers' attention.
April 11 -
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is developing a product called CashPro BillPay, which combines the bank's CashPro Online treasury management product with Bill.com's payments technology.
April 11 -
eBay has agreed to appoint business executive and former AT&T CEO David Dorman as an independent director, ending its public dispute with investor Carl Icahn, who will withdraw his proposals to separate PayPal from eBay and to place two other people on eBay's board.
April 10 -
Smartwatches may not be popular enough or have enough screen real estate to usurp smartphones as the next major mobile payment device, but there is a strong potential for the two technologies to work in tandem.
April 10 -
This year roughly $507 billion in payments around the globe will be made through mobile devices, up 40% compared to 2013, according to Juniper Research.
April 9 -
VeriFone Systems plans to offer a new portable card terminal that can accept EMV-chip card payments and uses several wireless technologies.
April 9



