Many e-commerce merchants are not set up to accept the payment methods local to Brazil, Russia, India and China (referred to as the BRIC nations), and BlueSnap aims to work with these merchants through a series of new templates.

American Express' joint travel venture may get delayed as it awaits regulatory approval, CFO Jeff Campbell told investors Jan 16.

First Data has named retired JPMorgan senior executive Heidi Miller to its board of directors.

HAMPSHIRE, U.K. — Payments via mobile devices are expected to reach $507 billion globally this year — a 40% increases year over year, according to a recent study from Juniper research.

Optimal Payments and Caesars Interactive Entertainment have expanded their partnership for online gaming payment processing.

Payment technology provider Merchant Warehouse has agreed to market services from the hospitality mobile payments vendor TabbedOut.

MasterCard Inc. signed as the final main sponsor of next year's Rugby World Cup, which organizers say will be the biggest-earning event in the history of the International Rugby Board.

SCVNGR's LevelUp is reducing its mobile wallet's transaction fee from 2% to 1.95% in its continued attempt to shave interchange costs.

Mt. Gox Co., the bitcoin exchange that collapsed in February, gave up on a plan to revive itself, dealing a setback to creditors seeking the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars in the virtual currency.

Fitness4Less plans to cut its costs for handling payments by 80% by switching from a third-party payment processor to a system it controls in-house through an application programming interface (API) from Fundtech.

The restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings will use the NCR Aloha Online Ordering system in its 1,000 company-owned and franchised locations in an effort to improve its takeout ordering business.

Ten years from now, members of the acquiring industry may have fond recollections of the nation's transition to mobile payments, says Brian Mooney, CEO of Bank of America Merchant Services.

Bitcoin companies are looking to win business from large corporations by offering more of the security features that traditional payments providers have long used.

The automated teller machine — a technology that dates to the 1960s — is taking on new relevance in the age of digital banking.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Virtual currencies such as Bitcoin are largely viewed skeptically by credit unions as a potential threat, but at least one person sees some opportunities for revenue.

Citigroup's (NYSE: C) better-than-expected quarterly results offered a break from months of bad news, but it will have to be a short one.

Santander's Polish subsidiary is linking its mobile banking app to a merchant marketplace where purchases of deliveries, flowers and transit fare can be funded directly from the user's bank account.

Charlie Shrem, a prominent Bitcoin evangelist, was indicted for allegedly trying to launder more than $1 million in the virtual currency in a case tied to the illicit online bazaar Silk Road.

Facebook is reportedly close to obtaining a license to operate as an electronic money institution in Ireland, a move that builds on the company's years of experience handling payments on its home turf.

ARLINGTON, Va.—The federal appeals court decision to uphold the Fed's debit interchange guidelines is expected to drive more EMV conversions and send merchants' fight for lower swipe fees back to the open market, say industry analysts and credit union CEOs.