The wireless carriers' Isis mobile wallet venture is launching a new program to build merchant support for its technology.

A new multi-purse card called Coin recently caused a commotion as it sparked interest in the concept of a card with a dynamic magnetic stripe. But other companies have pitched similar concepts before.

Atos is studying potential acquisitions to help make the French computer-services supplier's Worldline unit Europe's biggest payments company.

Bank of East Asia will launch a mobile payment service for its credit card customers in Hong Kong early next year.

Andrea Scerch is the new president of DataCash, an e-commerce payments company MasterCard acquired in 2010. Scerch replaces Ajay Bhalla, who is taking on a larger role at MasterCard.

Electronic payments in Bangladesh may increase 20-fold over the next five years as mobile-phone transactions increase and the government pulls citizens into the formal financial system, MasterCard Inc. says.

Allied Wallet is developing new payment technology that allows users to identify themselves by using an add-on fingerprint sensor, and also plans to build biometric acceptance for merchants.

Google Wallet now offers a plastic Google Wallet debit card designed as an alternative to using a smartphone to pay at the point of sale.

PayPal and MyCheck are going to New York's theater district to set the stage for mobile payments. The companies are targeting restaurants with MyCheck’s pay-at-the-table technology.

Shopkick has begun deploying Apple's iBeacon Bluetooth Low Energy technology, which alerts the shopkick mobile app when a consumer enters a store, at Macy’s locations in Herald Square in New York and Union Square in San Francisco.

European point of sale technology provider Spire will be the sole supplier of mobile chip and PIN payment devices for Smart TPE, Credit Agricole's mobile point of sale initiative in France.

Square has updated the design of its Square Register app in an attempt to improve user navigation and provide a consistent experience across different operating systems such as Google's Android and Apple's iOS 7.

RBS Citizens just finished a year in which it upgraded a large portion of its business payments technology, with an emphasis on mobile—and now it hopes to convince a younger generation of U.S. business executives to eliminate paper in treasury management.

DeviceFidelity Inc. has upgraded its iCaisse cover for iPhones to support the use of a SIM card as the secure element for Near Field Communication mobile payments.

Online PIN debit provider Acculynk now allows U.S. merchants to accept China UnionPay payments online.

Barclays Plc continues to position its Pingit person-to-person payment service as an option for all types of mobile payments in the U.K.

PayPal's freshly announced support of in-app payments for Uber and McDonald's illustrate that the eBay unit is fast adapting to a world that demands more of its payments technology vendors.

Nomad 2.0, a second-generation mobile EMV chip-and-PIN card reader from AnywhereCommerce, is designed to be a smaller and less expensive version of its 18-month-old predecessor.

VeriFone will provide payment services to Reseau Clubs Bouygues Telecom, the consumer retail affiliate of Bouygues Telecom, one of France's largest mobile operators.

The Chinese online payment provider Alipay has added a number of security products from CyberSouce, a Visa-owned e-commerce management provider.