Square announced expansion into Japan with updated Register features today, after seeing two executives, Alyssa Cutright and Alex Petrov, leave the mobile payments company.

Visa has hired Ryan McInerney to be its president. McInerney, previously the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase's consumer bank, fills a position left vacant since John Partridge retired in March. Visa also appointed Elizabeth Buse and Bill Sheedy to new roles.

Sprint's Boost Mobile prepaid phone service developed a mobile wallet as a way to provide financial services for its underbanked target audience.

EBay Inc. said PayPal will be available in 2 million retail stores this year as it takes on Square Inc. and Intuit Inc. in the market for mobile payments.

Google and Square have entered the notoriously challenging person-to-person payment field, sidestepping one of the major hurdles other companies have faced: signing up new users.

Swipely has secured a $12 million Series B round of financing, which will fund its nationwide expansion, the payments and marketing company announced today.

MasterCard is part of a joint venture that will launch the Zuum mobile payments service this month. The venture is touting Zuum as the first service of its kind in Brazil.

Square, PayPal, Groupon and others recently revealed a flurry of new technology at the point of sale, demonstrating just how capable tablets and smartphones are at handling payments and other needs for small merchants.

The identities of the card processing companies whose systems were breached in a massive cyber offensive have surfaced.

Google is not including a physical payments card as part of its mobile wallet, at least for the immediate future, according to the tech news site allthingsd.com.

Southwest Airlines, Pacific Convenience & Fuels LLC, RaceTrac and Brinker International Inc. have joined the retailer-driven effort to establish a mobile wallet for merchants and consumers, the Irving, Texas-based MCX announced May 9. Brinker is the parent company of Chili’s Grill & Bar and Maggiano’s Little Italy.

Near Field Communication technology has many detractors, yet it continues to advance as a mobile payments instrument. Banks should thus view NFC as an opportunity to ensure they stay relevant to customers' payments, according to a new Celent report.

Advantage Refreshments knows its vending machines look just like those operated by rivals, so it's trying to attract repeat business with a loyalty program from payments hardware maker USA Technologies.

Koupah, which is providing a new point of sale card acceptance tablet, aims to offset credit card transaction fees with ads.

Osama Bedier, Google’s vice president of wallet and payments, is leaving Google.

As state and federal regulators sharpen their focus on mobile cramming, some wireless carrier advocates question whether the issue of unauthorized third-party is a growing problem for carrier-billed mobile payments.

CardFlight aims to make in-person purchases easier by enabling merchants to accept swiped card payments within their own mobile apps.

Paidpiper Inc., once a poster child of MasterCard Inc.'s push to work with small developers, is finally ready to launch its product — without its previous reliance on MasterCard.

If they haven't already, retailers should begin getting a clearer picture of how to deploy a mobile wallet and loyalty program to their customers.

Two payments technology veterans are working on a mobile wallet that would not require changes to the hardware and software at the point of sale.