See how the U.K. version of the PayPal Here mobile point of sale technology enables EMV chip-card payments.

The European Commission says the phone company and banks involved in a mobile commerce joint venture in Spain can move forward because they are not violating anti-competition rules.

With its latest proposal, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council aims to make card data security more straightforward for merchants and organizations accepting payments.

The company behind the German mobile payments app GO4Q has had a busy — and challenging — summer, adding payments for taxi drivers, golf courses and beer gardens.

Mobile payments provider Square Inc. faces fines of $507,000 from Florida regulators for operating in the state without a money transmitter license.

Payment processor SecureNet Payment Systems has developed Mobile PayOS, which enables merchants to use Apple's iOS mobile devices to receive mobile payments.

Groupon aims to attract more merchants to its mobile payment offering by letting them remove the mobile device from the equation.

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed additions to the Telemarketing Sales Rule to eliminate remotely-created payment orders and checks, bar the use of reload PINs for bill payments and prohibit cash-to-cash money transfers.

Realex Financial Services has launched Realex Fire, an account that enables users to create a circle of people to regularly pay.

SixThirty, a financial services technology accelerator program by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, launched this week in St. Louis.

Youth payments company Virtual Piggy has integrated with Sulake’s Habbo Hotel, a social gaming and online community for teenagers.

At a time when most mobile payment apps use virtual cards, QR codes or contactless payments, Dairy Queen is testing the more experimental location-based approach employed by Square and PayPal.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Credit unions have been slow to embrace Windows 8, with a number of CU IT execs telling Credit Union Journal earlier this year they were holding off on purchasing the software in favor of additional releases from Microsoft.

Chase Paymentech now offers a mobile checkout application and card reader as part of its Chase Checkout point of sale technology for small businesses.

Shopify is integrating payments processing with its online storefronts, enabling merchants to accept and manage Visa, MasterCard and American Express payments directly through Shopify.

El Camino Hospital outside of San Francisco has seen an increase from 2% to 33% of patients using online self-service bill pay since it began offering the Simplee Pay platform in January.

Israeli startup BuyCode Inc. has introduced the Pounce mobile payment app, allowing consumers to purchase products they see in print through image recognition technology.

AOL is adding a payments function to email by working with Hearst Corp.'s Manilla, a paperless bill and magazine subscription organizer.

Fallon Community Health Plan will implement PaySpan's automated payments platform for enrollment, reimbursement and other transactions in line with new rules tied to the Affordable Care Act.

As many as 30% of merchants bailed out on their Payment Card Industry data security test because they didn't have time or didn't understand it, ControlScan says. The vendor aims to improve the process by suppressing irrelevant questions and putting the easiest questions first.