Online payments

Castle Rock's water utility has successfully launched a wide range of socially-driven alternative marketing techniques to spark adoption of its automated billing options.

By combining their payment and personal financial management technologies, Payveris and Geezeo are working to help banks fight the threat of nonbanks becoming consumers' preferred financial destination.

The Brazilian unit of PayPal Inc. is seeking to buy competitors to expand its business in Latin America's biggest economy.

Spindle, a mobile commerce provider in Scottsdale, Ariz., has integrated its payment aggregation services with RisePay's merchant platform.

Walmart is testing a program that uses its mobile app, website and tracking technology to give back to customers who paid too much for something at the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer.

The payment capabilities in the new Fire Phone are just the latest in a series of products that only Amazon could pull off. The e-commerce giant's offerings range from basic services to its own digital currency.

EBay Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe will join Nike Inc.'s board, bringing e-commerce experience to a company that's increasingly looking for ways to use the Internet to boost sales.

Vend will integrate its payment system with QuickBooks Online, making it the second point of sale company this week (along with Flint) to tout a link to Intuit's accounting software.

Despite a name that makes it sound like a droid from "Star Wars," 2C2P has grown to be a serious contender in Southeast Asia's burgeoning alternative payments market.

To move the U.S. toward a faster electronic payments system, it may be necessary to design a completely new payments infrastructure.

Dwolla, an alternative payments provider, has launched a service that allows customers to send money to a business without having to enter bank account information.

Global Payments, an Atlanta-based payment processor, has signed a deal with Bigcommerce, an e-commerce software firm, to provide its merchants with online shopping sites.

Balanced's new Push to Card program allows its marketplace clients to pay sellers directly onto their debit cards, enabling those sellers to instantly spend those funds.

Businesses often receive payments in a variety of ways, which can cause headaches when it comes to tracking and managing transactions, says Greg Hammermaster, president of Sage's payments division.

Green Dot has hired a PayPal executive to become general manager of its mobile bank account, known as GoBank.

PayPal wants small businesses to go global.

PayPal is rebranding its Bill Me Later instant credit product to PayPal Credit.

Just before eBay selected David Marcus to run PayPal in 2012, it named a number of executives who could have been prospects for the role. Now, as Marcus leaves to take a job at Facebook, some of these other executives may be in line to fill his shoes — but PayPal may also seek out new talent.

With PayPal president David Marcus leaving to join Facebook, the social network is positioned for a substantial market share grab in the digital payments industry.

Payment services entrepreneur Boris Kim has been elected chairman of Moscow-based Qiwi's board of directors.