Online payments

Fifth Third Bank has formed a partnership with cloud-based payment and digital banking provider Bottomline Technologies to provide electronic payment services to the bank’s business customers.

Pinterest is expanding its ‘Buyable Pin’ function to three more e-commerce software providers.

E-commerce merchants aren't supposed to be directly affected by the U.S. shift to EMV-chip cards at the point of sale, but they will face several unintended consequences of the increase in payment card security.

Business-to-business payments are well behind the curve of payments automation, though there's signs activity is about to pick up.

Financial technology provider VSoft and payments technology provider Payveris have expanded an existing partnership to integrate payments technology into VSoft's new Iris Omni-Channel banking platform.

Indra Financial Services has begun offering an IBM Watson-powered automatic expertise tool to its leading bank clients’ operations and sales teams.

Online food ordering platform Hungryhouse has expanded its payment offerings to include PayPal, Apple Pay and American Express.

Spree Commerce reports that it has been acquired by First Data Corp.

Payment services provider YapStone has hired former eBay executive Bryan Murphy as its president.

PeerTransfer has grown by specializing in one area: facilitating tuition payments for international students. And now, under a new brand name, it's ready to add a second major (and maybe a third and a fourth).