Retailers

U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer is claiming big results in emerging payments technology.

Simplee uses a personal financial management-style system with payment capabilities to help healthcare providers cut costs by making bill payments more straightforward.

If they haven't already, retailers should begin getting a clearer picture of how to deploy a mobile wallet and loyalty program to their customers.

Revel Systems Inc. is launching a system that adds security to swiped card payments by displaying the accountholder's photo on its iPad-based point of sale terminal.

Two payments technology veterans are working on a mobile wallet that would not require changes to the hardware and software at the point of sale.

Discover Financial Services and Network International, a Middle Eastern payment provider, have formed a strategic alliance to allow cross border card acceptance.

Ed Labry, who served as First Data's interim CEO before the payments processor chose Frank Bisignano for the top job on April 28, has been named vice chairman.

PageOnce is changing its name to Check, a rebranding that signals the mobile financial management company's new focus on payments.

Gene Cornfield, chief marketing officer for digital gift card provider CashStar Inc., recently sat down with PaymentsSource to discuss how Starbucks, Apple and other companies are setting the tone for the next developments in mobile commerce.

Canada is presenting many opportunities to the payments companies operating within its borders and in the U.S. Here are some of the most recent examples.

Groups opposing the Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. multibillion-dollar settlement of swipe-fee price-fixing claims won't be held in contempt by a federal judge for failing to fully correct websites he found misleading.

The biggest names in digital payments — PayPal, Isis, Google — have one thing in common: they all have a relationship with Discover Financial Services.

RentPaidOnline (RPO), an online payment service for property managers, and mobile commerce provider Spindle are partnering to develop a mobile version of RPO’s portal.

When the latest "As Seen on TV" must-have gadget appears on-screen, consumers may someday be able to make the first of their payments by pressing a few buttons on their remote control. It may seem far-fetched, but it's a future that Ingenico chairman and CEO Philippe Lazare says is well within reach.

Flash Valet, which uses mobile technology to facilitate payments for valet service providers, is creating a companion mobile app for consumers.

VeriFone has made several attempts to become a major player in mobile payments. A few months after altering its strategy with its second mobile card reader, the terminal maker says it is still learning.

Square has hired retail, consumer product and payments veteran Alex Petrov to be its vice president of partnerships.

MasterCard is planning to rapidly broaden the scale and scope of its digital wallet and prepaid card offerings.

ControlScan Inc. says it has developed a way to eliminate the technology and security challenges merchants face when trying to expand into mobile or online commerce.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc.'s executive chairman and CEO, Robert Carr, leaves little doubt as to where he sees his company's mobile pay future heading — attached to the wagon of mobile-payment pioneers such as LevelUp.