Online payments

EMV-chip technology has driven down fraud on Canada's Interac debit network, but that fraud isn't moving online. It's fleeing the country.

Intuit says it is addressing a major concern of small businesses in offering a product to enable faster online payments by automating invoices generation and data entry.

Alipay, created a decade ago as the payments unit for China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and since spun off, has established itself as a world leader in online and mobile payments.

Dublin-based gateway provider Realex Payments is working to make personal and business banking less expensive by offering payments-only banking services.

MasterCard has added China to the international roster of markets that accept the card network's MasterPass digital wallet.

Activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been calling for eBay to spin off PayPal, is now asking for eBay to conduct a partial initial public offering of the payments processor.

Global payments provider Payoneer will handle Google's "insurance" payments to consumers as part of the Google Trusted Stores program.

Acculynk will provide its payments processing gateway, PayLeap, to customers of cloud-based global e-commerce provider Ecwid.

Some of the nation's biggest banks killed a proposal in 2012 that would have enabled electronic payments to be processed on the same day they're initiated. Now the industry group that championed that plan, Nacha, is reviving its effort to speed up payments across the network that connects every U.S. bank and credit union.

In the truck business, speed matters. And nothing slows down a payment like a paper check.

Virtual Piggy, the provider of Oink payments, will provide its alternative payment system to the European Games Group, which has roughly 16 million players worldwide.

PayPal's John Lunn doesn't mince words when talking about the work that needed to be done to repair PayPal's developer programs. "Just go back a bit in time, toward the end of 2012 and early 2013, we were losing touch with developers."

These 20 women have reached impressive heights in a traditionally male dominated industry and have played a vital role in helping their organizations stay ahead of the curve.

Klarna raised 90 million euros to finance its acquisition of Sofort through fundraising led by Klarna's founders and existing investors, including Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic and Atomico.

China's central bank blocked plans by Tencent Holdings Ltd. and an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to offer virtual credit cards as the government moves to tighten restrictions on online financial products.

E-commerce payments processor 2Checkout is attempting to win over businesses by enabling the potential clients to accept transactions before it fully vets them.

The growing complexity of technology is forcing payments providers to ask whether they are better off becoming one-stop shops or building a network of partners to fill out their offering.

EMVCo, the EMV standard governing body has released specifications for payment tokenization, a process that it says will strengthen security on card-not-present transactions initiated by EMV-chip cards.

The payments processor TSYS has added features to its Credit Care tool to improve data access for banks and cardholders.

PayPal has added 15 partners to its Startup Blueprint program, expanding the network's reach to 5,000 startups.