Online payments

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.

The global e-commerce payment gateway provider BlueSnap has developed new application programming interfaces (APIs) to help merchants increase sales as the holiday shopping season nears.

Security vendor Retail Decision Plc (ReD) is working with First Data to deter card-not-present fraud in Mexico.

As card networks develop tokens to stand in for account numbers in online and mobile commerce, they may be able to standardize the experience across all companies that handle payments, said Mike Matan, head of global network business at American Express.

Rallying its members to wipe out passwords, the Faster IDentity Online Alliance — an organization of more than 150 payments and technology businesses — released standards Dec. 9 for multi-factor e-commerce authentication.

Banks would have to upgrade their systems to accommodate faster transactions, and originating banks would pay the receiving financial institutions a fee to cover those costs, under a plan from Nacha, the industry group that sets ACH rules.

The Aschheim, Germany-based payments company will process subscriptions for the TV station's Sky Starter and Sky Film packages.

Visa and Kofax are attempting to simplify complex invoice payments in Asia by introducing technology into processes that have long been handled manually.

SignaPay, a payment processing company based in Irving, Texas, has acquired PayHub, a merchant services company in San Rafael, Calif.

Alipay, the payments affiliate of Alibaba, leads the market for online third-party payment services in China, according to a recent iResesarch, a Chinese market research firm.

MasterCard will soon make its digital wallet available to consumers in China.