Online payments

In what amounts to eliminating password use and evolving the Verified by Visa and SecureCode online authentication processes, MasterCard says a new security protocol it is developing with Visa could be implemented next year.

For payment technology developers, the stakes couldn't be higher as the FCC develops new rules that could support or eliminate net neutrality, a system in which Web access is equal for most users, regardless of size.

Allied Payment Network, an online payments company in Fort Wayne, Ind., released a new platform for small-businesses payments.

Space Coast Credit Union will work with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment and banking service provider headquartered in Naples, Fla., for its online and mobile banking as well as electronic payments.

Alibaba needs help to build a market in the West and is openly courting cooperation with Apple and PayPal, suggesting sweeping e-commerce alliances and even acquisitions may soon follow.

Remittance incumbents and digital startups are aggressively dismissing each other in public statements, though both sides have distinct advantages in the battle to control the expanding remittance payments market.

Merchants are enticed by the lure of the huge e-commerce market in China, enough to give a number of early client wins to Alipay's U.S. merchant acquisition effort.

U.S. Bank, which has been aggressively building business payments technology, is adding Viewpost’s electronic invoice and payment network to the bank's website.

Seeking to help its clients benefit from consumers who increasingly shop online or through mobile devices, GoDaddy Operating Co. LLC has launched its online store product for small businesses.

Jan Estep, president and CEO of Nacha, discusses the organization's revised proposal to speed transactions on the automated clearing house network and how it improves on the plan that member banks voted down two years ago.

Avangate is working to meet its customers' demands for revenue-recovering tools for "freemium" business models, which offer a basic product or service for free but charge for add-ons or ongoing use.

Ingo Money, which specializes in digitizing check payments, has entered an agreement to buy Salt Lake City-based Fuze Network, which handles cash loads for credit, debit and prepaid accounts.

Apple Pay is still new to the scene, but it's already forced a number of other online and mobile wallets to change course. Some are rethinking their technology, while others are trying to find the best way to build on the buzz Apple created.

Advancements in consumer mobile payments are setting the stage for similar changes to corporate employee payments, such as travel purchases and other expenses.

Nintendo Co. Ltd. wants to expand the use of the Suica contactless card for small-value payments on its video game consoles.

Apple Pay scooped up one million payment cards in its first 72 hours, 60% of which were Visa cards, but MasterCard's chief executive still expressed optimism for the payment network's chances in the rapidly shifting mobile landscape.

Qiwi will soon be available as an alternate payment option on eBay in Russia.

BBVA Compass is partnering with Dwolla, the Des Moines, Iowa-based alternative payment network to enable real-time payment capabilities throughout its offerings.

MasterCard plans to launch MasterPass, the card network's digital wallet, in Taiwan.

Poynt Co., a startup headed by former Google and PayPal executive Osama Bedier, is looking to take advantage of the EMV hardware upgrade schedule to entice merchants to switch to its new app-based payment terminal.