Payments

Most digital wallets are focused on shopping, marketing and recurring payments, though mobile payment company PyxPay and donation payments company Interactive Donor Corp. are applying the concept to charitable giving.

VIENNA, Va. — Mobile payments provider Square could get a big boost from the nation's biggest credit union.

MasterCard has entered into a commercial agreement with Monitise that includes cooperative development and a plan by the card network to make a minority investment in the technology company.

Wirecard has integrated Host Card Emulation into its mobile wallet platform, enabling businesses to handle contactless mobile payments with fewer of the hurdles inherent to Near Field Communication payments.

Navy Federal Credit Union is promoting Square's mobile card reader and payment processing services to its small-business members.

Boku Inc. is partnering with Sunhill Technologies to offer a mobile payment system for motorists in Europe to bill parking costs to their mobile phone account.

Square is making all of its payment apps in available in Spanish in an effort to attract Latino merchants in the U.S.

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.

Mobile payments company I Love Velvet has joined the Samsung Solutions Exchange, which provides business owners with tools and applications for Samsung devices.

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.

Innovation can come from unlikely places. Five years ago, few would have guessed that the most widely available mobile wallets would be developed by companies like Starbucks and Google, which built their names in completely different fields. Several more disruptors are joining the scene, with even weirder origins.

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

Breaking into the ultra-competitive credit card market requires time, money and creative thinking. Wells Fargo (WFC) is behind on the first and isn't talking about the second, but is hoping that the third can make up the difference.

Elavon's clients now have the option to add a customer loyalty program directly into their payment transaction systems, enabling shoppers to redeem rewards any time they make a payment.

A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that the existing restrictions on debit card swipe fees should largely stand, turning back a challenge by retailers who argued that credit unions and banks are still earning too much money from the fees.

There's a lot of investment flowing into mobile payments technology, and perhaps this is more than the market can sustain.

The ATM maker Diebold has deployed a machine at Diebold Federal Credit Union that operates without a card reader or PIN pad.

Sionic Mobile, a provider of mobile marketing, gifting, payments and rewards programs, has embedded Google Wallet payments into its ION Rewards app.

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.