PayPal’s most recent updates to its tools for programmers reflect a desire to simplify the process of integrating with mobile apps and other new channels.

American Express is doing a lot to shed its image as the card for the elite. In recent years Amex has worked with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, video game companies and other new partners to win the favor of young adults.

BIPS’ strategy: Make it easy for merchants to get started with Bitcoin, aggregate their balances with the company, and make money over time on foreign exchange conversion and premium services.

After spending eight years analyzing potential fraud factors of online transactions, Iovation Inc. says it is now ready to immediately tell clients which shoppers they can trust based on the devices they use.

Apple's Passbook has no payment function of its own — it is a blank canvas for other developers to add their ideas. In this way, Apple's featureless mobile wallet is fast becoming one of the most full-featured options available today.

Online and mobile payment tech startup Stripe has expansion plans on both sides of the Atlantic, and will rely on being a "simple" play for payments startups as it faces crowded field of competitors.

A federal court has banned a California-based company from providing modification services for auto loans and for any other type of debt.

With so much attention on cybercrime, it may be surprising to realize plastic cards remain an appealing target for theft.

Vacation property rental companies and bed-and-breakfast operators will now be able to accept online payments as they book clients through cloud-based WebReserv.com.

Many times, marketing constraints can slow financial institutions' rollout of Fiserv's SpotPay card readers. Fiserv's new spotpay.com website addresses this concern without compromising the vendor's mission of offering the device almost exclusively through banks and credit unions.

A relationship between McDonald's Corp. and Seamless allows consumers in Sweden to pay for their fast food with their mobile phones.

Monitise PLC and Visa Europe have agreed to a new three-year deal to further develop mobile payments and mobile commerce for Europe's top banks.

HOUSTON – Cardtronics announced this morning it has completed the acquisition of i-design group plc, a Scotland-based provider of technology and services that transform ATM screens and receipts into delivery devices for interactive customer communications by financial institutions, for $13 million.

SEAFORD, Del. – Seaford FCU announced this morning it will implement Fiserv’s new SpotPay solution, which enables credit unions and banks to offer their small business account holders an anywhere, anytime mobile solution to accept both card and check payments from a smart phone with a SpotPay reader.

Alicia Moore, head of ATM banking at Wells Fargo & Co., recently spoke with PaymentsSource about the new credit card management and payment features that are part of the company's larger ATM fleet overhaul.

After spending eight years analyzing potential fraud factors of online transactions, Iovation Inc. says it is now ready to immediately tell clients which shoppers they can trust based on the devices they use.

Loan demand by businesses and consumers remained mostly level in the fourth quarter across the country, according to a survey released by the Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday.

The core banking tech vendor Fiserv is integrating its Popmoney person-to-person service with its Mobiliti mobile banking and payments technology.

BitPay, which processes payments in the decentralized digital currency Bitcoin, has integrated its platform with Amazon's fulfillment service, which ships goods for merchants that store their merchandise in Amazon's warehouses.

PayOne's lawsuit against Home Depot over its use of PayPal's point of sale payments technology is not the first legal battle PayOne has pursued with an entity tied to PayPal — and, the company says, it may not be the last.