Payment processing

The launch of PayPal's revamped mobile app is a coming out party for the eBay unit to prove it's laid the foundation to be a serious offline payments player by employing strategies that differ greatly from how it achieved success as an e-commerce payments scheme.

Total System Services has signed a long-term acquiring agreement with Irving, Texas-based Anovia Payments.

Target has emerged as a leader in store-branded debit cards. The goal of such cards is to use data analytics and discounts to cement customers’ loyalty.

A new group of payment terminal providers will add Isis’ specifications for payments and loyalty programs, enabling the telecom-driven mobile wallet to reach approximately 90% of the addressable market for point of sale hardware in the U.S.

Elavon has hired Realex Payments to provide a number of digital payments services for the Elavon Payment Gateway in Europe.

In an effort to shield merchants looking to expand into new markets, PayPal will launch an expanded seller protection policy for the Asia Pacific region on Oct. 11.

Citibank has agreed to pay $55,000 to settle a complaint by the Connecticut attorney general that the bank was aware of a security flaw in its online banking service that resulted in hackers obtaining payment card data and stealing about $2.7 million.

Mobile bill pay app developer Check has received $24 million in Series C investment led by Menlo Ventures, a venture capital firm that has previously funded app developers Uber and Tumblr.

Doomsayers conveniently forget that the business case for introducing debit cards was one of cost avoidance for the banks, not revenue.

The ATM Acquirers Alliance is restructuring its organization to accommodate new industry segments and payments technology and has changed its name to Integrated Payments Alliance.

Microsoft's planned acquisition of Nokia's handset division is designed to bolster its position as a hardware manufacturer and solidify a mobile platform for its Windows operating system. But the move may also boost the tech giant's payments aspirations.

Banks can do business with Internet-based lenders that don’t violate the law, the nation’s primary payment system said in a letter that followed warnings from regulators about the online firms’ practices.

The Affordable Care Act was meant to spark a major increase in electronic payments, yet progress has been slowed by confusion and lack of interest.

U.S. merchants are in for a rude awakening if they do not prepare for the spike in e-commerce fraud that will likely follow the shift to EMV-chip cards at the point of sale.

A European EMV migration technology provider plans to make itself known to more U.S. payments companies.

Any new payments technology is a gamble, and many major retailers refuse to take a risk on untested technology. But small merchants are usually more willing to experiment, and a few have bravely given new payments products their first big chance.

The terminal swapouts that accompany the EMV chip-card migration in the U.S. should help VeriFone recover from its performance slump, according to Northcoast Research.

A new Jack Henry program can speed EMV-chip card migration for card issuers by up to a year — but only for credit cards, since ongoing legal issues hamper the use of EMV for debit cards.

MasterCard, C-SAM and DNP are preparing to launch a white label mobile wallet service in Japan.

E-Commerce services provider Digital River is launching a mobile payment acceptance product called Beanstream Mobile.