Fashion and finance have a lot of overlap. Celebrity fashionistas have a growing influence on new payment products, and in turn many payment products are using trendy colors and designs to attract users.

Pageonce, a money management and bill pay company, announced bill pay enhancements made to its Money & Bills app. Its new archive capability could make it a competitor to banks' mobile bill payment offerings.

OnStar, a unit of General Motors, aims to be a leader in the use of Near Field Communication technology for automotive-related payments.

Groupon's board is aligned with Chief Executive Officer Andrew Mason and has no plans to replace him, the company said.

Wex Inc., partnering with CashStar, now allows its retailers in Australia and New Zealand to offer customized eGift cards. This move is part of an ongoing strategy on the Wex's part to diversify its offerings and its audience.

With each new mobile-payment function developers create for smartphones, a correlating new security risk arises. The riskiest aspect for merchants, issuers and consumers remains the initial phase — when consumers enroll for a product, says ValidSoft Ltd.

Virtual Piggy, which provides an online payment system for minors, said Nov. 29 that it has hired Joseph Dwyer as its chief financial officer.

Andrew Mason's role as chief executive officer of Groupon is on the line as board members meeting today in Chicago discuss whether to seek new leadership at the top of the troubled provider of daily coupons and mobile payment acceptance.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council's participating organizations voted that third-party security assurance and best practices will be the two key areas for the PCI special interest groups to study in 2013.

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. – Wings Financial CU announced this morning it signed with Online Resources Corp. to implement the company’s Architect Banking solution and bill payment services.

A company called Movaluate is distributing reprogrammable Near Field Communication chips, a move that could help erase some of the business and technological hurdles payments companies face. It might also open NFC to a new group of developers.

SCVNGR-created LevelUp announced today that it has 500,000 users, which it says is validation of its unconventional approach to point of sale payments.

As First Financial Bankshares expands beyond mobile check capture to mobile bill payment — letting customers pay bills by taking a picture of them with their phone — it's also considering the feature a source of fee income.

SAN DIEGO – Mission FCU has contracted with The Members Group to offer the company’s fraud text alerts to its members.

NCR Corp., a supplier of automated-teller machines and payment systems, has agreed to buy Retalix Ltd. for about $650 million, gaining software and services used in supermarkets.

As if the emerging mobile payments market isn’t complicated enough, new research indicates banks and retailers are rarely on the same page as consumers in terms of how they view new payment technology.

SmartyPig is working with The Bancorp in an effort to resell its consumer savings goal-setting technology to the prepaid card companies and proxy banks that use The Bancorp as a means of storing cash.

An estimated 21 percent of a financial institution's consumer accounts in a portfolio also may be small business owners or principals, according to a recent Equifax data analysis.

Online spending rose 17 percent on the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest days of the year for Internet retailers, as tablets and smartphones let customers shop anytime and anywhere. EBay mobile sales volume more than doubled on Cyber Monday, compared with the previous year, and PayPal payment volume nearly tripled.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council's participating organizations voted that third-party security assurance and best practices will be the two key areas for the PCI special interest groups to study in 2013.