Online payments

Youth e-commerce company Virtual Piggy will provide its payment engine to Marvelous USA, which sells video games.

CVC Capital Partners Ltd., one of Europe’s largest private-equity firms, agreed to buy a majority stake in British online payment company Skrill Group Plc from Investcorp Bank BSC in a deal worth $800 million.

Facebook’s new mobile checkout initiative brings heft to the power of social data in areas such as advertising and payments risk, and aims to improve the user experience on mobile apps.

Bitcoin users who help maintain the digital ecosystem's official record of transactions may soon find themselves required to register with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as administrators of the alternative currency.

A new Braintree service is designed to help market-style businesses streamline the process of splitting incoming consumer payments between their online stores and selling partners.

Canadian financial services technology developer Davis and Henderson closed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Lake Mary, Fla.-based Harland Financial Solutions on Friday.

Stripe, a technology company that helps other companies accept payments online, is formally launching its British service.

Realex Financial Services has launched Realex Fire, an account that enables users to create a circle of people to regularly pay.

Youth payments company Virtual Piggy has integrated with Sulake’s Habbo Hotel, a social gaming and online community for teenagers.

Shopify is integrating payments processing with its online storefronts, enabling merchants to accept and manage Visa, MasterCard and American Express payments directly through Shopify.

AOL is adding a payments function to email by working with Hearst Corp.'s Manilla, a paperless bill and magazine subscription organizer.

PayPal offers no shortage of choices for loading their accounts, including Green Dot, MoneyGram, Coinstar and its own My Cash Card — but are consumers using them?

In the race to provide consumers with identity verification tools that are simple and easy to use, it's in everyone's best interest to ensure that businesses are not sacrificing data security in the process.

Honey, which obtains coupon codes for consumers who shop online, plans to use its data management and analytic tools to enable merchants to offer coupons directly to Honey users in real time.

Bango, a direct carrier billing provider, has integrated with Mozilla's Firefox Marketplace, allowing consumers to charge digital purchases to their phone bill.

BitWall, a Bitcoin content monetization startup, will launch next week to allow people to sell low-value digital content, putting one of the digital currency's favored use cases to the test.

Visa has elevated former PayPal and Yahoo executive Sam Shrauger to head of digital, part of an internal reorganization at the card network that took place at the end of July, according to an analyst report from Janney.

Virtual Piggy, which provides an online youth payment system, now offers digital gift cards on its website through a deal with the prepaid card company InComm.

Western Union has partnered with electronic payment processor eTranzact to offer mobile money transfers in Nigeria.

A group of technology companies is working to build digital currencies into Web browsers, a move that could help payment methods such as Bitcoin thrive.