Mobile payments

A new Braintree service is designed to help market-style businesses streamline the process of splitting incoming consumer payments between their online stores and selling partners.

As the Isis mobile wallet comes out of pilot, it's important to note that not every emerging payments initiative makes it this far. But in experiments, any result can be valuable if the companies behind the test find something to learn from it.

See how the U.K. version of the PayPal Here mobile point of sale technology enables EMV chip-card payments.

The European Commission says the phone company and banks involved in a mobile commerce joint venture in Spain can move forward because they are not violating anti-competition rules.

The company behind the German mobile payments app GO4Q has had a busy — and challenging — summer, adding payments for taxi drivers, golf courses and beer gardens.

Mobile payments provider Square Inc. faces fines of $507,000 from Florida regulators for operating in the state without a money transmitter license.

Payment processor SecureNet Payment Systems has developed Mobile PayOS, which enables merchants to use Apple's iOS mobile devices to receive mobile payments.

Groupon aims to attract more merchants to its mobile payment offering by letting them remove the mobile device from the equation.

SixThirty, a financial services technology accelerator program by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, launched this week in St. Louis.

At a time when most mobile payment apps use virtual cards, QR codes or contactless payments, Dairy Queen is testing the more experimental location-based approach employed by Square and PayPal.

Chase Paymentech now offers a mobile checkout application and card reader as part of its Chase Checkout point of sale technology for small businesses.

Israeli startup BuyCode Inc. has introduced the Pounce mobile payment app, allowing consumers to purchase products they see in print through image recognition technology.

In the race to provide consumers with identity verification tools that are simple and easy to use, it's in everyone's best interest to ensure that businesses are not sacrificing data security in the process.

Chase Card Services says it will stick with the Isis mobile wallet venture as it prepares for a national rollout after nearly 10 months of testing. In doing so, the JPMorgan Chase unit also gives its endorsement to Isis' model of using Near Field Communication for contactless payments.

VeriFone has begun outfitting on-board payments systems on New York City's new street-hail livery cars.

Heartland School Solutions has launched mySchoolBucks, a mobile app that provides parents access to their children’s school related payments.

Canadian-based cooperative financial group Desjardins has reached an agreement with mobile technology provider Monitise to develop and deploy Near Field Communication-based mobile payments.

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin is part of the team behind Glow, a fertility tracking service that uses a mobile app, crowdfunding and analysis to help women conceive children.

Blackbaud has added mobile payment capabilities intended for nonprofit and educational organizations to use at fundraising events.

Samsung Wallet, an Android wallet app that largely resembles Apple's Passbook, is now available on the Google Play marketplace for Android smartphone apps.