A popular Pan-Asian restaurant chain in the U.K. will begin accepting payments for online take-out orders through Visa's V.me digital wallet.

Former Google and PayPal payments executive Osama Bedier has joined WePay as the payment company makes a major push to court developers.

Mobile commerce provider CardFree, whose executives have ties to Starbucks' successful mobile payments app, has received a U.S. patent for technology that integrates reservation, payment pre-authorization and transaction management with a merchant's point of sale system.

While global shipments of mobile point of sale devices reached 8.4 million units in 2013—a 53% increase over 2012—more than 1.3 million of the devices went unused during the year, according to new research from ISH Technology.

Whole Foods Market has agreed to use multiple versions of Square Inc.'s mobile payments technology.

More people worldwide will be able to transfer funds to users of the mobile money transfer service M-Pesa due to a new partnership with Vodafone and Moneygram.

Payveris and D3 Banking are integrating their technology to allow banks and credit unions to use Payveris' digital payments functions with D3 Banking's multichannel digital banking service.

Pizza Patron is integrating Revel Systems' mobile point of sale system into its more than 100 restaurant locations, which had been using several different vendors' products to accept payments.

The Currency Cloud, an international payments provider, has extended its reporting functionality to allow clients to follow their outgoing and incoming transactions to speed up payments.

Facebook Connect, which lets Internet users log into other websites by typing their Facebook credentials, seems to be everywhere. But perhaps it should not be in mobile payments, SCVNGR's LevelUp has decided.

Cash transaction provider PayNearMe is among the growing list of payment companies that are anxiously awaiting the higher volume of transactions that will result from the Affordable Care Act.

SixThirty, a technology accelerator launched last year by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, is searching for its second class of financial services technology startups.

MasterCard has signed on as the first card network to participate in the mobile payments component of the Weve joint venture in the U.K.

Consumers in Poland will soon be able to fund their online shopping with cash by purchasing vouchers from Ukash.

Xoom Corp. expanded its money transferring services by offering instant deposit accessibility to Metrobank and PNB, two of the top banks in the Philippines.

Clutch's mobile wallet has added technology from Mobeam that allows consumers to 'beam' bar codes from loyalty, membership and gift cards from certain smartphone models directly to standard laser scanners, which often cannot read bar codes on mobile apps.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has launched a mobile payment app that allows customers on the Telus phone network to make purchases at many Canadian retailers.

The Federal Reserve banks signaled Feb. 4 that they are pushing ahead with their efforts to encourage the construction of a faster nationwide payment system.

In 2014 retailers will focus on reshaping their businesses on products such as merchant-led mobile wallets, which help them engage with consumers throughout the shopping experience.

African countries south of the Sahara desert represent prime markets for digital payment development because residents have few other financial services options, according to a report from McKinsey & Company.