Online payments

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.

More than 212 million biometric authentication devices will be shipped over the next decade for use in financial services, according to recent Tractica market research.

Visa's online payment service, Visa Checkout, has added 33 more merchants and won the support of new issuers in China and the United Arab Emirates.

Stripe's quick disruption of the payment processing industry in the U.K. is measurable in at least one simple way — counting clicks.

As banks work to understand potential tech threats to their traditional business lines, Leader Bank in Massachusetts has built its own software to usurp one of its services — lockboxes used by landlords.

The Tel Aviv-based fraud prevention provider Forter insists that the legacy security model for e-commerce won't scale enough to combat the sharp rise in fraud coming in the post-EMV economy.

Harper Reed and Dylan Richard first burst onto Chicago's tech scene as part of Barack Obama's 2012 reelection team, and their social media wizardry is often credited for keeping the president in the White House.

MasterCard and First Tech Federal Credit Union are testing a system that might be the picture-perfect solution to the expected rise in e-commerce fraud following the October shift to EMV security in the U.S.

Information technology firm Infosys and digital payments company Payveris have partnered on a new service for bill payment and money management for credit union and community bank customers.

The recent explosion of mobile commerce and payments would not have been possible without open and sharable technology, and the credit union service organization CO-OP Financial Services aims to duplicate that success with its own technology.

Western Union has added several European countries to its WU.com online money transfer service, using an omni-channel strategy to fuel its expansion.