The world of card acceptance on BlackBerry smartphones has just become more complete.

With Visa debit card spending for online purchases reaching new heights in Europe and the United Kingdom, the timing appears right for consumers to tie those cards to mobile payments.

A startup is attempting to create a mobile-payment system that focuses on digital receipts and rewards. And it leaves payments out of the process.

PayPal Inc.on Jan. 18 reported a jump in fourth-quarter revenue, driven in part by mobile payments.

PayPal Inc., which has been testing a point-of-sale payment system with Home Depot, this week plans to expand that trial and offer consumers a card linked to their PayPal accounts.

NEW YORK–With so much attention on turning mobile phones into payment devices through hardware upgrades, banks may be missing a growing opportunity in the mobile Web browser.

Qunar Corp., the biggest Chinese online travel-booking site based on volume, on Jan. 6 signed strategic cooperation agreements with China’s top three third-party online payment providers to provide alternative payment services for the site.

Credit cards remain the preferred payment method for online purchases in the United Kingdom because of their payment protections and potential for users to earn reward points. But other payment methods continue to attract consumer interest as well.

American Express Co. has begun licensing its digital wallet, Serve, in China.

If there is a silver lining to the Zappos Retail Inc. data breach, it may be that more merchants, including the shoe-marketing giant, have taken key steps to prevent thieves from stealing customers’ full credit card account numbers, which will blunt potential losses.

If financial-services companies have any reservations about being appointed the front-line enforcers for copyright protections under proposed anti-piracy legislation, now would be their time to strike.

Five more credit unions have agreed to settle pending civil suits alleging they violated the Electronic Funds Transfer Act’s fee-disclosure provisions, but at least one of the settlements is raising questions about the more than three dozen suits filed against credit unions and banks by a Michigan retiree and her boyfriend.

The creator of Bitcoin conceived the digital currency as a rebellion against the banking system. But it may also present business opportunities for banks that can get comfortable with the risks.

Data-security vendors generally acknowledge they are up against extremely high-tech, organized and relentless cybercriminals looking to steal identities and payment card data to execute fraudulent transactions.

French terminal maker Ingenico SA is working with iMobile3 LLC to promote mobile retail payments through a collaboration called iMRP.

The economy may not be booming, but new data show that personal bankruptcies in 2011 declined for the first time in four years, providing another positive sign for consumer credit card performance.

Experian, the global credit information firm, reported Tuesday that revenue grew 12% in the three months ended Dec. 31, helped by earlier acquisitions and steady growth in emerging markets.

The economy may not be booming, but new data show that personal bankruptcies in 2011 declined for the first time in four years, providing another positive sign for consumer credit card performance.

Four in 10 consumers with an interest in mobile banking say that the ability to make deposits via their smart phones is the top factor in selecting or switching banks.

Paying invoices used to take time that Alliant CU wanted to spend serving members instead. That changed in November 2011 when Alliant converted the manual accounts payable process to an electronic workflow within its enterprise content management system.