Mobile payments

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.

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.

PayPal is moving into more modern marketplaces through a deal with car-service company Uber Technologies Inc.

Russian mobile technology developer i-Free plans to expand the Near Field Communication-based payment services offered by Tinkoff Credit Systems, or TCS Bank.

Telecom Italia and Visa Europe plan to support Near Field Communication payments for more than 31 million Telecom Italia Mobile subscribers next year.

Microsoft and mobile commerce provider FreedomPay have developed a system that integrates digital payments with a company's underlying business processes.

Jusp, a mobile point of sale provider, announced a flat monthly fee ranging from 39 to 69 euros (approximately $53 to $93) to target midmarket merchants and large corporations.

About half of the population of Belgium will be using smartphones by the end of next year, making the time ripe for a mobile payments push.

Don't get distracted by the big-name telecoms that designed the Isis mobile wallet, or you'll miss the wizard behind the curtain: American Express, which stands to see a jolt in adoption of its Serve account if Isis succeeds.

The mobile point of sale vendor ShopKeep POS has updated its tablet-based point of sale with several new features designed to streamline its use.

When Isis launched its mobile wallet nationwide this month, it also launched a new interface. Here's a look at what new users see when they sign up.

With some powerful marketing, Coin, a dynamic card provider, has captured consumer attention with its magnetic-stripe card that can digitally store accounts from multiple credit and debit cards.

Payments processor Cardis USA and mobile commerce vendor Spindle are joining with vending machine manufacturer Multi-max to enable mobile payments at its machines, where most consumers still buy coffee with cash.

The moment of truth… With the Isis app running and my Serve account displayed on-screen, I held my phone in front of the contactless card reader.

Now that Isis has launched its mobile wallet nationwide at AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile stores, the venture says its next priority is bringing more merchants on board.

Isis, the mobile wallet venture led by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, is launching nationally after extended public tests.