The Isis Mobile Wallet initiative has suffered a setback with Capital One and Barclays pulling out of current testing, but the Isis venture has just as many issuers staying on to fuel its upcoming nationwide launch.

Groupon Inc. lost a bid for dismissal of a lawsuit complaining the company misled investors about its financial performance before its initial public offering in November 2011.

Vantiv plans to release a suite of services next week to target different parts of the casino industry.

When Google decided to create an iPhone version of its Google Wallet, it turned to Austin-based Mutual Mobile for help — the same app developer that's quietly working on an overhaul of the Isis mobile wallet.

Smaller merchants wanting a foothold in the vast Internet now have the option to open a Heartland Online Storefront.

Zapper is launching a scan-to-pay service that relies on QR codes to facilitate the payment of invoices for small to medium-sized businesses in the U.K.

An iOS version of Google Wallet launches today on the Apple App Store, bringing the search giant's recently revamped mobile wallet to iPhone devices.

It's been five months since PayPal began disseminating its point of sale payment system to all Discover merchants, but First Data, a massive Atlanta-based payment processor, isn't in any rush to support the initiative.

As some companies attempt to transform hashtags, the keywords and phrases that make content searchable on Twitter and Facebook, into a trigger for a payment, Chirpify aims to let the tags live a double life through its new actiontag system.

The emergence of mobile payments may seem like a slow crawl now, but as younger consumers mature, they are going to demand more mobile services — and banks need to have services geared to that faster pace.

San Francisco-area transit operators are launching a mobile website to manage the Clipper fare cards.

Revel Systems saw an opportunity in the power outage that halted the last Super Bowl. And it's an opportunity that has started to show results.

Southwestern Advantage, a multi-level marketing company with a model similar to Avon or Amway, relies on college students to sell its educational materials — raising potential risk issues as a young and inexperienced sales force is tasked with protecting payment details.

Payments marketing company edo has launched edo Marketplace, a card-linked offers platform that allows merchants to create their own targeted campaigns.

Google Wallet is getting over its reliance on a small set of Near Field Communication-equipped handsets with a new app that works on any phone running version 2.3 or higher of the Android mobile operating system.

Daniela Mielke is the new chief strategy officer at Vantiv, where she will help lead product innovation, profitability, revenue and scale for the Cincinnati-based payments processor.

Making payments on a television may seem like a Jetsons-era dream, but it's drawing the attention of modern-day payment companies that see the disruptive potential of TV.

LevelUp's software development kit (SDK), released last week, allows companies such as Zuppler to add mobile payments without drawing users away from the merchant's branded mobile app.

The team behind Bump Technologies has become a part of Google, a move that could potentially combine both companies' payments initiatives.

Consumers in the U.K. using Barclays' Pingit mobile app will now have the option to use it for online purchases.