Live Gamer, a digital commerce provider, will offer its new Pay+ and Elements global payment platforms for the education industry.

Bluetooth-based beacons, which detect when customers enter a merchant's store, will dramatically change how businesses manage identity, payments and customer engagement, said Patrick Gauthier, PayPal's head of emerging services.

Executives at processor Total System Services can't predict which of the many existing mobile payments technologies will dominate the payments landscape of the future, but they plan to aggressively go after the processing business that follows.

The U.S. EMV migration is high stakes, complicated and probably won't get done on time to meet the deadlines set by the card networks, according to Vantiv's Patty Walters.

Square Inc. now lets its merchants get feedback from customers through a response window added to its digital receipts. Appropriately, the new service is called Square Feedback.

Jusp, an Italian maker of mobile payment systems, is offering its technology on Nokia's Windows-based Lumia smartphones.

BitPay, an Atlanta-based company that processes payments in the digital currency Bitcoin, said it secured $30 million in venture capital funding.

If Apple isn't quite ready to enter the mobile payments field in the U.S., it might be leaning toward China as its initial proving ground.

First Bankcard, a division of First National Bank of Omaha, is partnering with the deals delivery company Swagbucks to implement a rewards program for its credit and secured credit card programs.

E-commerce has led to a rapid expansion of the options and methods of executing payments.

Bima plans to use its latest funding to get more people in emerging markets to obtain insurance by making it possible to pay their insurance premiums on mobile phones.

The city of Indianapolis has seen a significant jump in parking revenue after adopting technology from Xerox, replacing antiquated meters with new ones that accept debit, credit and mobile payments.

Connecticut's top banking regulator on Monday warned investors about the dangers of Bitcoin.

The payment processor Vantiv has agreed to buy Mercury Payment Systems LLC for $1.65 billion to expand its services for cloud-based payments integrated into other technology, says Vantiv president and CEO Charles Drucker.

Virtual Piggy, which developed the youth payments service Oink, has added commerce solutions provider Gorilla Group is now a member of its channel partner program.

Spindle Inc. has agreed to make its will merchant approval platform available to U.S.-based clients of iConnect, a Colorado-based provider of point of sale technology.

FIS has launched a cloud-based, instant issuance system for EMV-chip cards.

Apple will be ready to accept Near Field Communication payments from phones in its stores, even though none of its consumer devices support NFC out of the box.

Ecopayz launched a private, online application designed for travel payments.

Square has removed its cloud-based Wallet app from the Apple iTunes and Google Play stores, apparently to make room for a new app called Square Order.