Payments

PayPal Canada is collaborating with TouchBistro to allow customers to use smartphones to "check in" and pay at restaurants.

For merchants that use mobile point of sale technology, the U.S. migration to EMV-chip cards may still be a couple of years away. Roam aims to make it possible to accept EMV cards ahead of schedule.

MONETT, Mo. – JHA Payment Processing has launched an expedited EMV implementation process for U.S. chip card issuance.

Singular Payments' software will allow Kindable to add electronic payment acceptance as part of its offerings for non-profit organizations.

After bringing its mobile card reader into Mexico two months ago in its first venture outside of Europe, iZettle has made its next move into Brazil.

IND Group, a European online banking technology provider, has partnered with PayPal to allow bank customers to transfer money to family and friends using their email addresses.

Twitter Inc. hired Nathan Hubbard, the former president of Ticketmaster, as its first head of commerce, part of a push to enable shopping via short postings on its social website.

Developing the Starbucks mobile payment app stands as a badge of honor in the career of Chuck Davidson, who is now the head of product for CardFree, where he continues to work alongside several of the experts who helped make the Starbucks app a massive success.

Virtual Piggy and American Express are trying to win the attention of gamers by offering them prizes in their favorite online games — but players only get the prizes if they change the way they pay.

PayPal's building its move into physical stores brick by brick, and its processing partnership with TSYS is one of its largest moves to date, threatening to grab payments business away from card-issuing banks.

Danish mobile point of sale provider Wallmob is introducing a new tablet stand to a payments market where technology is heavily influenced by the card companies that dominate the region.

Convenience for the receiver will ultimately drive mass adoption of P2P payments and give financial institutions that deploy this service a competitive advantage.

NEW YORK – Debit card rewards may survive in an era of regulated swipe fees, but they will have to be funded differently, according to some analysts.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Credit card issuers need to do a better job of explaining their rewards programs, according to a new survey that also indicates there is a big revenue opportunity in doing so.

BitPay Inc., a Bitcoin payment gateway for online merchants, has created a simplified interface for consumers and added several plugins to encourage more merchants to accept the virtual currency without writing new code.

Facebook shocked the payments industry during its IPO when it revealed it already got 15% of its revenue from payments. The social network has also proven a fertile ground to other companies that have figured out how to incorporate Facebook's platform into their own offerings.

Vodafone and ICICI Bank are offering the M-Pesa mobile money service in New Delhi and Mumbai, according to reports.

Gas station owners may have the most difficult task of any retailers in preparing for mobile payments and EMV cards because of their dated systems and equipment — and because many of their customers fear that using their phones at the pump will cause fires.

PayPal has made its portable chip-and-PIN card reader, called PayPal Here, available to all merchants in the U.K.

Harris Teeter will pilot Paydiant's mobile wallet as part of its Express Lane online shopping service, starting at a grocery store location in Matthews, N.C.