Online payments

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.

Large payment companies, including PayPal, are increasingly using incubators and accelerators to learn about consumers and to nurture startups that might become partners.

Payment applications developer Ixaris is working with United Bank for Africa and Ojapay to launch a virtual card-based e-commerce system designed to make online purchasing an option for more African consumers.

Payza, a London-based payment processor, has simplified its account-opening process for businesses.

Apple's Tim Cook and Alibaba's Jack Ma took to the stage separately at a tech conference and spoke about working together on mobile payments.

With the EMV migration in the U.S. in full swing, fraud is making its own migration to card-not-present (CNP) transactions, and one way to thwart the fraudsters is a digitized card security code—provided the technology can be produced for a mass audience.

PayPal has launched a Canadian version of PassPort, a website designed to help small merchants sell globally.

The Fed's hotly-anticipated road map outlining plans to speed up the U.S. payment system will call for the creation of several industry-led task forces and recommend building a new infrastructure to facilitate real-time payments.

Yapital Financial, of Luxembourg, is partnering with Goodgame Studios to handle sales of virtual goods.

Shopkick has launched its mobile commerce and rewards service in Germany with a group of the country's largest merchants.

The movement to develop a faster U.S. payment system has a new, influential convert.