Online payments

As computing devices get closer to the body and more Internet-connected, payment platforms will have to be flexible enough to work in a vast number of environments, according to PayPal's Joel Yarbrough.

The payment processor Stripe Inc. is one of the key parties enabling the Sony film The Interview to be rented and purchased online after it was pulled from theaters following terroristic threats.

Late last week, hackers took down Payza's blog and posted a mocking message in its place, implying that they were sitting on a treasure trove of stolen data. Payza says this was merely a hacker's stunt, and that no data of real value could have been compromised, but the company must still deal with the event's damage to its brand.

For MasterCard's Mung Ki Woo, the future of payments is an app that unlocks new consumer habits by literally unlocking their doors.

MasterCard will host a series of hackathons in different countries to spot innovation in digital payments.

Moneris Solutions, Inc. and Syrasoft Self Storage Software will partner on two new integrated payment processing options for the self-storage industry.

PayPal has agreed to distribute CashStar digital gift cards through the eBay marketplace and the PayPal Digital Gifts store.

Retail stores have spent years fighting competition from the Internet, and Verifone plans to prove that it's a fight the brick-and-mortar side can win.

Payza now supports automated clearing house deposits and withdrawals for users with U.S. bank accounts.

Five of eBay Inc.'s top executives will leave the company when it spins off the payment-processing division PayPal next year, and retaining them until the deal closes will cost more than $35 million, according to a regulatory filing today.

Bancroft & Associates has added Spindle's credit and debit card payment acceptance to its online property management payment platform.

For American Express' Nik Sathe, developers with no experience in the payments industry are among the best to hire.

Intuit's Mint personal financial management site has rebranded the Check app, which the company purchased this year, to tie its payment capabilities to the Mint brand.

Optimal Payments has released a series of onboarding and developer options in an attempt to stay nimble amid the growing market of companies that use application programming interfaces (APIs) to offer transaction capabilities to retailers.

Nearly a decade ago, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council told banks that passwords are not enough to guard financial data, and many companies scrambled to evaluate new and sometimes bizarre alternatives.

Adyen joins the ranks of financial technology companies to receive big money this week, announcing a $250 million funding round today.

MBNA Ltd. is working with MasterCard Inc. to test the MasterPass digital wallet in the U.K., with plans for a possible launch in early 2015.

The online art marketplace Etsy is steadily expanding its range of payment services, with its latest move taking aim at social media.

Stockpile, a company that provides digital gift cards for buying stock, has partnered with the financial technology vendor Yodlee to offer banks products aimed at encouraging consumers to save and invest.

The e-commerce provider Spindle has partnered with the payment processor TekTango to provide point of sale hardware with bundled payment processing services.