Payments

Now that Isis has launched its mobile wallet nationwide at AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile stores, the venture says its next priority is bringing more merchants on board.

Isis, the mobile wallet venture led by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, is launching nationally after extended public tests.

NCR Corp. has updated its NCR Silver point of sale system for iPad, adding features that allow a small business to grow including support for multiple locations.

Smaller banks are turning to mobile payments in droves, though the services still mostly resemble Web banking on a mobile device — support for full-featured mobile wallets is still in its infancy.

Quatrro, a business processing company based in India, is launching payment processing services for credit unions, community banks and other payment companies in the U.S.

Square has eliminated holds and deposit limits for manually entered transactions in the U.S., and is marketing these changes to frustrated PayPal users.

If checks, a payment method that’s hundreds of years old, can be updated for the Internet age, why can’t America’s four-decade-old electronic payments system? It’s not for lack of trying.

Swedish mobile payment company Seamless has introduced its SEQR mobile wallet in Belgium in collaboration with bpost bank, with an initial deployment at Belgian McDonald’s locations.

Even if it takes the payments industry months to respond to Google's use of Host Card Emulation, which simulates the signal from a Near Field Communication chip, the technology is a potential game changer.

Google Inc. sent a few tremors through the payments industry when announcing its newest Android operating system can perform contactless payments without high-level access to NFC hardware. No one could blame SimplyTapp CEO Doug Yeager if he were cheering Google on from the sidelines.

Former First Data CFO Cheryl King will assume the same position at PaySpan, a health care payment automation company.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) has purchased technology from ACI Worldwide to support integrated mobile, Web, interactive voice response, call center and electronic lockbox payment options.

Scammers posing as collection agencies are becoming more deceptive and persistent, according to a news release from the Better Business Bureau.

Optimal Payments Plc and Channel 1 Media are bringing online and mobile payments to fans of professional sports teams in North America.

SaaS-based technology provides a blended approach to remittance processing that enables financial institutions to outsource infrastructure responsibilities, while retaining the management of transaction processing, bank deposits and receivable updates.

Visa Inc. has expanded the role of French secure-chip testing expert Fime, which will support the card network's mobile payment application testing.

Hybrid PayTech World Inc. is offering programs to allow application developers to incorporate the company’s multi-operating-system payments technology.

Requiring customers to sign up for online banking before they can enroll in mobile could deter would-be digital customers from some transactions.

Visa Inc. has expanded the role of French secure-chip testing expert Fime, which will support the card network's mobile payment application testing.

Rabobank plans to deploy Near Field Communication-based mobile payments in the Netherlands.