What Google and Square's New P2P Payment Systems Take from Banks
May 22, 2013 Google and Square have entered the notoriously challenging person-to-person payment field, sidestepping one of the major...

ControlScan Adds Security to ConvergenceHealth's Software
May 22, 2013 ControlScan is providing online payments security for ConvergenceHealth's digital- and cloud-based healthcare software and...

Sprint's Boost Brings Mobile Wallet to the Underbanked
May 22, 2013 Sprint's Boost Mobile prepaid phone service developed a mobile wallet as a way to provide financial services for its...

Gun Sales a Loaded Issue for Payment Gateways, Processors
May 21, 2013 Licensed gun dealers are finding it increasingly hard to accept card-not-present credit card or debit card transactions, but...

Europe’s Experience with EMV Aids PCI Advisory Board
May 20, 2013 The timing couldn’t be better for the new advisory board of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council to...

Payvia Buys Mogreet to Fuel Payments Expansion
May 20, 2013 Payvia, which provides direct-carrier billing technology, has acquired Mogreet, a provider of cloud-based mobile messaging.

MasterCard, Telefonica Venture Brings Zuum Mobile Pay to Brazil
May 20, 2013 MasterCard is part of a joint venture that will launch the Zuum mobile payments service this month. The venture is touting...

Marks & Spencer Contactless Readers Charging Wrong Cards: Report
May 20, 2013 Some consumers in London reportedly experienced problems with the contactless payment system U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer...

Square Signals Its Move in Person-to-Person Payments
May 20, 2013 A person-to-person payment method called Square Cash has surfaced on Square's website, less than a week after Google announced...

Bob Evans, TSYS Managing Director of Europe, Dies During Hiking Trip
May 17, 2013 Bob Evans, managing director of the Europe division of Total System Services Inc., passed away May 11 while on a hiking...