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.

Dmitriy Smilianets, 29, appeared Aug. 12 in federal court in Newark, N.J., where prosecutors said July 26 he was indicted with three other Russians and a Ukrainian. They are accused of hacking 17 retailers, financial institutions and payment processors, including 7-Eleven Inc., Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., Carrefour SA and J.C. Penney Co., to steal more than 160 million credit- and debit-card numbers.

PayPal offers no shortage of choices for loading their accounts, including Green Dot, MoneyGram, Coinstar and its own My Cash Card — but are consumers using them?

In the race to provide consumers with identity verification tools that are simple and easy to use, it's in everyone's best interest to ensure that businesses are not sacrificing data security in the process.

The New York State Department of Financial Services issued subpoenas to 22 emerging payments players, including many that handle the digital currency Bitcoin, demonstrating that new payments models have not yet found their place in the eyes of the law.

Chase Card Services says it will stick with the Isis mobile wallet venture as it prepares for a national rollout after nearly 10 months of testing. In doing so, the JPMorgan Chase unit also gives its endorsement to Isis' model of using Near Field Communication for contactless payments.

VeriFone has begun outfitting on-board payments systems on New York City's new street-hail livery cars.

Heartland School Solutions has launched mySchoolBucks, a mobile app that provides parents access to their children’s school related payments.

Canadian-based cooperative financial group Desjardins has reached an agreement with mobile technology provider Monitise to develop and deploy Near Field Communication-based mobile payments.

Business for debt collectors in Spain, where the industry is barely regulated and uses methods mostly illegal in the U.S., has risen by an estimated 40% in the past five years.

Davis + Henderson Corp.'s acquisition of Harland Financial Solutions is a "big deal," simply because it involves so many credit unions using products supplied by the two companies, according to one analyst.