Bill.com is using its business payment technology to help users determine when and where to ask for additional security information, a move designed to spot vulnerabilities that require extra protection.

Launched in April 2010, Think Computer Corp.'s FaceCash application signed up 25 Bay Area merchants and 500 consumers to use its novel technology, which combined mobile bar code scanning and photo identification. Then regulators put it out of business.

Honey, which obtains coupon codes for consumers who shop online, plans to use its data management and analytic tools to enable merchants to offer coupons directly to Honey users in real time.

JACKSON, Miss. – HOPE Credit Union has deployed Bluepoint Solutions’ mobile remote deposit capture solution, QwikDeposit ToGo, as part of the credit union’s mobile banking app powered by Malauzai Software.

FORT MILL, S.C. – Sharonview Federal Credit Union has signed with Silanis Technology of Quebec to implement the company’s on-premise e-signing software.

Eric Lefkofsky, a Groupon co-founder who ousted Andrew Mason as chief executive officer in February to take the job on an interim basis, was made permanent CEO, the Chicago-based company said in a statement today.

A federal judge ruled that bitcoins are “a currency or form of money” and therefore subject to relevant U.S. laws in a case against a Texas man accused of creating a fraudulent Bitcoin hedge fund.

To facilitate the launch of a mobile wallet unveiled in February at the Mobile World Congress 2013 event, a major bank and a telecommunications company in Norway have formed a joint venture.

As mobile wallets expand their services, they more closely resemble full-fledged bank accounts. And PreCash Inc. says it can do at least one job better than banks do today.

Cabela's Inc. employees are using Sage Mobile Payment card readers to accept payments at the company's bank-sponsored outdoor sales events this summer.

CenPOS has integrated Ingenico terminals into its could-based payments platform, a move that's designed to enable both mobile payments and EMV-chip card acceptance at automotive dealerships and other specialty merchants.

U.S. consumer spending totaled $89 per day in July, unchanged from the $90 in June and May, according to Gallup Daily tracking interviews of more than 14,000 Americans.

Wells Fargo & Co. will tie up with American Express Co., the world’s biggest credit card issuer by purchases, to offer cards accepted on American Express’s network of merchants.

The Lamassu machine, a so-called Bitcoin ATM, is a rare device that makes it possible for the unbanked to obtain digital currency. It was invented by a pair of guitar-store proprietors who wanted to break into the payments industry — and are prepared to face the music when regulators take notice.

Alliance Data Systems Corp. is adding augmented reality technology to the tools it offers to drive the use of retail payment cards.

Photo-based mobile bill pay can help banks overcome the adoption challenges of traditional online bill pay.

SAN FRANCISCO – Merchants should not be concerned that many consumers will abort online transactions due to more secure authentication solutions, according to a new Javelin Strategy & Research report.

Bango, a direct carrier billing provider, has integrated with Mozilla's Firefox Marketplace, allowing consumers to charge digital purchases to their phone bill.

PayPal's new partnership with Alliance Data spans multiple products at both companies, but it has barely scratched the surface of what the two payments providers say is possible.

Bitcoin fanatics and skeptics met under the same roof at a recent event in New York. Now that the digital currency is recognized under guidance from Fincen and bitcoin users established a self-regulating organization, entrepreneurs and payments-industry veterans are finding some common ground.