The advance of smart cards, mobile and cloud-based payments all promise one thing: better security. But in many cases, they rely on the same vulnerable hardware at the point of sale.

Celltick is bringing its mobile payments coupon service to countries such as Indonesia and Russia — moves that confront some cultural hurdles for it to overcome.

Ingenico SA will provide the contactless payment terminals that Banco Nacional de Mexico, or Banamex, plans to make available for up to 30,000 retailers in Mexico.

The Metrolink rail system in Southern California is offering commuters a "smart" paper ticket as part of the transit access pass, or TAP, smart card system operating on Los Angeles buses and trains since 2007.

Iyzi Payments has raised $1.4 million from a group of undisclosed angel investors, and it will use the funds to build a new payments platform in Turkey.

The Mississippi Department of Revenue is providing its agents with mobile devices to accept credit or debit cards for tax payments.

Data through May, released Thursday by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian for the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices, showed no change in national default rates during the month.

Check, formerly PageOnce, is adding an expedited payment service to its mobile app.

Online ticket payment provider Picatic has the business model of a museum—its customers are expected to pay, but the amount is at least partly up to the patron.

INDIANAPOLIS – FORUM CU has released an updated mobile application for Apple devices with iOS version 5.0 or greater that brings new features and functionality to iPhone and iPod Touch users and now makes the app available on iPads.

New nonbank companies entering the payments industry should be subject to the same regulatory oversight and transparency requirements as their financial institution peers, according to a report released by the American Bankers Association.

MasterCard and Western Union have launched an international payments service that allows small to medium sized U.S. businesses to execute cross border transactions.

Electronic payments company Ixaris, which has about 20 corporate clients using its Ixaris Payments Server, will target corporate prepaid card-issuing financial institutions with the same technology.

Xoom has developed native Apple and Android applications for its money transfer service.

Mobile payments companies and retailers will forge more partnerships where they retain customer identities, making it unnecessary to re-enter credit-card information, said John Collison, co-founder of Stripe Inc.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- MidUSA CU announced this morning it has signed with Buffalo Pacific LLC and Telepresence Technologies LLC to be the first credit union in the U.S. to deploy the companies’ high-definition 3D OmniSuite technology that brings together life-size 3D, real-time video communications with full eye contact and theater quality sound to create a virtual "presence" of the credit unions experts, on member demand.

Stockholm-based iZettle is bringing its mobile card reader into Mexico.

Many Bitcoin startups face the expensive and daunting task of obtaining multiple state money transmitter licenses. But these businesses could drum up enough support to create a more streamlined and affordable licensing process.

ORLANDO, Fla. – FAIRWINDS CU has implemented Intuit Financial Services’ digital banking suite.

U.K.-based Spire Payments has hired Nick Parsons as its managing director of Northern European activities, the payments hardware provider announced June 18.