, the maker of a mobile payments service designed for business customers, is launching a major update with SalesVu 2.0, . The company is somewhat similar to Square, in that it also includes a dongle that

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/30/square-competitor-salesvu-ups-its-game-with-new-features-for-restaurants-retailers-more/

, a Cambridge-based startup, is aiming to make the experience of paying in a shop more modern with paperless receipts for customers and transaction data in the cloud for merchants. Backed with $1 million

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/13/leaf-mobile-payments/

Google has had a few teething problems with its ambitious mobile payments service Google Wallet, but it is also putting some money down to get it on the right track. Today the company announced that it

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/02/google-buys-txvia-banking-on-better-payment-tech-and-100m-customers-for-google-wallet/

Money transfer service Western Union is a new online payments platform, called that allows consumers to pay for goods online by using your bank’s online bill pay service (similar to the way you pay

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/western-union-gets-into-online-payments-launches-paynearme-competitor-wu-pay/

is weighing changes aimed at improving its mobile-payment system following slow adoption and the departure of two key managers, according to people with knowledge of the project. The company is considering

Url: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-21/google-said-to-rethink-wallet-strategy-amid-slow-adoption.html

FIS' move to offer mobile wallet technology to banks shakes up a mobile payments industry that's already a pretty volatile mix of heavy hitters in the telecom, bank and web spaces, bringing more complexity

Url: http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/177_18/fis-paydiant-mobile-wallets-offer-1046095-1.html?zkPrintable=1&nopagination=1

Solution Overview Paydiant's cloud-based, white label mobile wallet and payment solution enables banks, retailers, and processors to deploy a branded contactless mobile wallet, mobile payment and

Url: http://www.paydiant.com/solution/solution-overview.html

Cashing out of Corruption Are fifteen million mobile phones enough to wage war on graft in Afghanistan? When police officers in Afghanistan's mountainous Wardak province began receiving

Url: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39828/?p1=BI

an from the company formerly known as provides a compelling way for the ‘unbanked’ to use cash payments for online goods. The “unbanked” refers to consumers who don’t have traditional bank accounts

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/paynearme-now-lets-you-pay-your-utility-bill-at-your-local-7-eleven-store/

I have a love-hate relationship when it comes to all these newfangled mobile payment methods. Fan as I am of Google Wallet (and all the Wawa coffee I bought with the included $10 prepaid card).

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/13/icache-geode/

Set down your digital wallets. There’s something you really need to know. Those pretty little apps don’t matter quite as much as you think. Most of them couldn’t pick up your tab at IHOP because they’re

Url: http://pandodaily.com/2012/06/28/the-key-to-montises-virtual-wallet-workaround-real-world-atms/

Well, it appears to be here at TechCrunch. When it rains, it pours, right? Another announcement hitting the wires today comes from global mobile payments startup , which has just closed a $4 million

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/mobile-payments-startup-kuapay-grabs-4-million-investment-readies-global-expansion/

We’ve seen some notable developments around mobile payments that turn handsets effectively into credit cards, credit card processors, reward point aggregators, and more. A new product out today could see

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/more-mobile-wallets-incoming-placecast-launches-white-label-shopalerts-wallet/

, an iPad point-of-sale company backed by $3.7 million in funding, is today introducing a new hardware product designed to take the place of an Ethernet router. The “Revel Router,” as the device is being

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/revel-systems-debuts-an-ipad-point-of-sale-in-a-box/

In our zeal to disrupt the physical wallet, we seem to be in a hurry to skip to the part where cash and credit cards are forgotten instantly, relics of a bygone era. Payment-tech startup is taking a

Url: http://pandodaily.com/2012/06/26/wallaby-launches-the-cloud-wallet-of-today-based-on-a-smart-universal-payment-card/

, a startup that’s been flying under the radar over a year, is launching its new payment services platform today. At first, you might think the most apt comparison is that of , which also on web and

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/20/bancbox-debuts-its-payments-platform-you-could-build-a-paypal-on-this/

March 2012 The Future of Money Money has gone from seashells to gold to paper bills to digits in a computer. Now money is about to evolve again as the mobile Internet unlocks new consumer behaviors and

Url: http://www.technologyreview.com/businessreport/the-future-of-money/

Dwolla’s FiSync service is something that we’ve been working on for years in some form or another. We released the standard functionality in various forms last year to financial institutions across the

Url: http://blog.dwolla.com/ach-goes-real-time-with-fisync-free-for-banks-and-credit-unions/

Dwolla is all about bringing simplicity to the world of payment processing, which currently consists of a bunch of “stuff on top of stuff,” CEO Ben Milne says. Today, with the , Dwolla allows banks to

Url: http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/08/dwolla-finally-releases-solution-to-the-ach-payment-problem-makes-api-available-to-all-banks/

In addition to , it looks like PayPal is going to be launching a set of payments offerings for small businesses as well. We just received an invitation for an event PayPal is hosting next week, which

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/paypal-set-to-unveil-payments-platform-for-small-businesses/

Infosys announced last week that Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile service provider, has selected its WalletEdge platform to operate Airtel Money, the first mobile wallet service in India. This announcement

Url: http://blogs.forrester.com/fred_giron/12-03-07-why_the_recent_infosysairtel_deal_is_a_glimpse_into_the_future_of_it_services

Natasha is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based out of London. She arrives after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/flat-fee-dongle-free-card-payments-startup-emu-opens-for-business-in-u-k-registrations-in-europe/

Fuze Network , a payments technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has raised $2.5 million in Series A financing, according to a new SEC filing . The round was led by Dana Stalder at Matrix

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/27/fuze-network-a-payments-company-focused-on-serving-the-unbanked-under-banked-raises-2-5-million/

Because the mobile payments landscape wasn’t muddy enough, the collaborative effort between some of the biggest retailers to launch their own mobile payments network is set to be announced later today

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/15/walmart-target-7-11-and-other-retailers-are-teaming-up-on-mobile-wallet/

Mobile wallet platform released an Android application and a Smarter Wallet Business Plan today. The company,  in late 2011 and $8 million in Series A, claims that over two million customers have

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/lemon-wallet-releases-android-app-lemon-business/

Today, a company called  is launching a new mobile payments platform for carrier billing. But unlike several in this space, payvia is not a new player in the mobile industry. The company was spun out

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/payvia-debuts-new-carrier-billing-platform-offers-support-for-t-mobile-sprint/

When , it looked like another mobile payment start-up targeting Square. But after a quiet year, the Google-backed company is showing that it’s got bigger ambitions as it pursues enterprise customers looking

Url: http://gigaom.com/2012/07/20/google-backed-payment-startup-corduro-aims-for-enterprise/

aims to solve a real world problem. The mobile banking industry is a space cluttered with false hopes and poor executions, so a real solution is a rare sight. The company “aimed to tackle that helpless

Url: http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/18/boom-financial-raises-17m-renames-itself-from-m-via/

Square’s list of big name competitors is officially getting another billion dollar company. NCR Corp., the Duluth, GA maker of cash registers and ATM machines, is now launching , a cloud-based point of

Url: http://gigaom.com/2012/07/17/cash-register-maker-ncr-joins-the-pursuit-of-square/

Imagine you’re walking by your local cafe, and you get a notification on your phone that you’ll get a free bagel if you buy a cup of coffee. You walk inside, and make the purchase with your credit card

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/how-green-dot-will-use-loopt-to-go-after-mobile-payments/

You never know when you might have the next Uber, Fab or Airbnb on your hands. Even though those three startups grew up relying on Braintree to power their payments, the Accel-backed company wants make

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/31/braintree-startups/

Stripe , the YC-backed payments startup funded by Sequoia and PayPal’s original founders, is launching a new way for marketplaces and collaborative consumption startups to let their users directly accept

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/10/stripe-connect/

Flint , a small business-focused mobile payment app that does away with dongles and NFC and instead uses the camera on a phone to “scan” a card’s numbers, has come out of beta. The iOS 6/ iPhone 5-compatible

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/16/flint-exits-beta-to-take-on-square-with-its-camera-based-mobile-payment-app/

There are a growing number of peer-to-peer marketplaces out there, helping to match up workers and sellers with products or skills, with buyers who wish to take advantage of them. But for those marketplaces

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/16/balanced-marketplace-payments/

The landgrab among Square-influenced mobile payment companies in Europe continues apace: in today’s development, SumUp — which launched in August with more than $20 million in backing from b-to-v Partners,

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/14/sumup-another-european-square-expands-to-italy-spain-and-holland-now-covering-7-countries-12-weeks-into-launch/

An India start up in the mobile payment space, Ezetap has finally made a move in the market. They successfully roped in an investment of around $3.5 million in its initial round of seeking funds to expand

Url: http://www.gizbot.com/news/indian-mobile-payment-player-ezetap-closes-3-5-million-investment-round

The Estonian/U.S. mobile payments company, Fortumo , has a pretty good track record of moving quickly. It was one of the first — if not the first — to give Android developers a way to offer in-app purchasing

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/31/fortumo-brings-its-mobile-payments-to-windows-8-carrier-billing-ftw/

Today iZettle , one of the several Square-like mobile payments companies in Europe, announced that it was expanding its Series B round of €25 million and adding American Express as its newest investor.

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/mobile-payments-startup-izettle-expands-series-b-to-e25-million-adds-american-express-as-newest-investor-as-it-preps-launch-in-uk/

Square is gearing up to launch its first international services by the end of this year, but in the meantime, one of its many dongle-based mobile payment competitors is building up outside of the U.S.

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/square-competitor-mpowa-inks-multi-million-dollar-white-label-deal-with-first-national-bank-of-south-africa/

Disruptive mobile and online payments startup has raised $25.5 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The firm’s General Partner Scott Weiss has joined Jumio’s board of directors. Jumio’s

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/05/payments-company-jumio-raises-25-5m-from-andreessen-horowitz-will-hit-100m-in-2012-revenue/

By AMIR EFRATI In one of the largest exoduses from Stanford University's computer-science programs, more than a dozen students have left to launch a startup called Clinkle Corp. that aims

Url: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324020504578396912443242512.html

PayLane , the European online payments company, is expanding to Germany — it already operates in Poland, UK, and Ireland — accepting payments in 160 currencies from over 50 countries. But where the Polish

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/paylane/

Green Dot , a Sequoia-backed company that focuses on pre-paid debit cards and eventually went public two years ago, just unveiled a new banking account that can be registered entirely from a smartphone.

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/loopt-green-dot/

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason last year set his company a goal of adding more value and diversity to its bread and butter business in daily deals, and today it took one more step in that direction: Groupon

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/11/groupon-widens-its-mobile-payments-net-adds-groupon-payments-to-its-android-app-to-rival-square/

Blue Kite , a Miami-based platform for cross-border bill payments, is today announcing $1.5 million in new funding, led by PeopleFund , which contributed $1.3 million of the total raise. The remaining

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/09/bluekite-raises-1-5-million-to-help-u-s-immigrants-pay-bills-abroad/

The mobile payments space already has its fair share of players, but lately some new names have been making big waves (like LevelUp), finally taking on veterans like Starbucks . The coffee giant recently

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/with-10m-in-the-bank-cardfree-launches-to-take-on-levelup-and-square-in-mobile-payments/

It’s so simple and disruptive I wonder why others haven’t really tried it. Droplet is a mobile money app on iOS that lets you load cash onto your phone and send payments to anyone – including participating

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/03/droplet-plans-to-disrupt-mobile-cash-with-no-charges-payment-app-for-iphone/

Online and mobile digital cash network  Dwolla  is breaking down one of the barriers to entry to using its service with today’s introduction of a new “guest checkout” feature for online merchants. The

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/dwolla-launches-guest-checkout-option-for-merchants-allows-shoppers-to-pay-with-dwolla-without-signing-up/

There are a number of companies that offer carrier billing for companies in the mobile space — that is, services that let people buy content on their devices and charge it right to their carrier — but

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/01/bango-facebook-amazon-rim/

, is a mobile payments platform that actually makes sense to me. When I sat down with CEO Yossi Yarkoni and VP of Marketing Nir Shimony at the to hear about their concept, which is piloting in Israel

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/29/digimo-cracks-the-code-mobile-payments-with-no-point-of-sale-changes/

Fresh off its $2 million in Series A funding , in-app mobile payments platform ZooZ  is announcing a new product today: in-ad payments. Yes, that’s right, “ad” not “app.” The big idea here is to streamline

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/15/mobile-payments-startup-zooz-debuts-in-ad-payments-yes-ad-not-app/

Here’s some encouraging news for the European startup scene, and London in particular. TransferWise , the online currency exchange that uses the crowd to undercut traditional money transfer services,

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/13/tw/

With the proliferation of smartphones, we’re now able to use these mobile, mini computers to do just about everything we would do on our desktop while on the go. Yet, in spite of this evolution, mobile

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/13/akimbo-lands-850k-from-rackspace-co-founder-others-to-bring-prepaid-debit-cards-into-the-social-mobile-era/

For developers who wish to introduce payment services through their website or mobile apps, there are any number of payment processors available. Companies like Stripe offer up APIs which help developers

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/08/cardflight-partners-with-stripe-and-launches-sdk-to-become-the-stripe-of-real-world-payments/

GoCardless , the Y Combinator-backed payments startup based in the U.K., has raised a $3.3 million Series A round of funding, led by existing investors Accel Partners and Passion Capital. The company had

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/18/u-k-online-payments-platform-gocardless-raises-1-5-million-series-a-plans-to-expand-across-europe/

Another sign of the significant investment and attention going into the mobile payments market and the competition that is heating up among the bigger players: BOKU is today announcing a significant new

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/15/mobile-payments-boku-35m-nea-telefonic/

Following its recent raise of $2 million in seed funding, the still invite-only mobile payments startup is today announcing the launch of its developer program and API. The New York-based company, founded

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/21/to-modernize-the-checkbook-zipmark-launches-developer-platform-for-mobile-payments/

Well, it appears to be here at TechCrunch. When it rains, it pours, right? Another announcement hitting the wires today comes from global mobile payments startup , which has just closed a $4 million

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/mobile-payments-company-gopago-nabs-investment-from-jpmorgan-chase/

A new mobile payments startup is entering the market. is exiting from stealth today as a fast, simple mobile payments technology that aims to allow consumers to checkout from a mobile site or app in

Url: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/clover-raises-5-8m-from-andreessen-horowitz-launches-as-a-one-click-mobile-payments-platform/