Online payments

Fifth Third Bank has formed a partnership with cloud-based payment and digital banking provider Bottomline Technologies to provide electronic payment services to the bank’s business customers.

Pinterest is expanding its ‘Buyable Pin’ function to three more e-commerce software providers.

E-commerce merchants aren't supposed to be directly affected by the U.S. shift to EMV-chip cards at the point of sale, but they will face several unintended consequences of the increase in payment card security.

Business-to-business payments are well behind the curve of payments automation, though there's signs activity is about to pick up.

Financial technology provider VSoft and payments technology provider Payveris have expanded an existing partnership to integrate payments technology into VSoft's new Iris Omni-Channel banking platform.

Indra Financial Services has begun offering an IBM Watson-powered automatic expertise tool to its leading bank clients’ operations and sales teams.

Online food ordering platform Hungryhouse has expanded its payment offerings to include PayPal, Apple Pay and American Express.

Spree Commerce reports that it has been acquired by First Data Corp.

Payment services provider YapStone has hired former eBay executive Bryan Murphy as its president.

PeerTransfer has grown by specializing in one area: facilitating tuition payments for international students. And now, under a new brand name, it's ready to add a second major (and maybe a third and a fourth).

Hoping to reach businesses with purchasing needs that can't be handled with just a credit card, WePay is turning to Automated Clearing House payments to diversify its transaction options.

The age of the standalone wallet app, though still in its infancy, may already be making way for a new mobile payment regime.

Worldpay and Zuora have partnered to introduce a product that streamlines the payments aspect of online, subscription-based video, software and other content.

Twitter Inc., which helped rewrite political discourse, is now venturing into the world of campaign finance, introducing a way for candidates to solicit donations through social media posts.

Mobile payment and commerce technology provider Mozido has established a cross-border e-commerce payment connection between China and Russia, a project that resulted from its purchase of Beijing-based PayEase Corp. earlier this year.

CHICAGO — Financial institutions have fallen behind the payments innovation curve, though they can catch up quickly by adopting the faster payments initiatives that are accompanying mobile and digital transactions.

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have driven a technology revolution for small businesses that use the open development tools to add payments to e-commerce sites.

The "buy buttons" that are popping up on social media platforms are intentionally simple, often meant to enable one-click purchases of individual products. But as the technology's popularity grows, so must its capabilities.

PayPal Holdings Inc. is increasing prices for thousands of small businesses as the company looks to maintain revenue growth and boost profit margins as a stand- alone business separate from EBay Inc.

Dylan Richard was the lead engineer for President Obama's reelection campaign, where the use of unstructured "social data" forever changed how presidential win the support of their constituents. Four years later, he's one of PayPal's newest recruits.