Square is finally making its move overseas. The mobile point of sale provider announced today it will be available in Japan. Square said it will be working with Sumitomo Mitsui Card Corporation to …

Paris-based FI BNP Paribas has announced the launch of Hello bank, a 100 percent digital, mobile bank that caters to smartphone- and tablet-owning individuals. The bank is set to launch in four major …

A recent study reveals that the furor over showrooming may be all for naught. According to the 2nd Annual U.S. Mobile Path-to-Purchase study released today by xAd and Telmetrics and conducted by …

Swirl, a mobile marketing platform provider, today launched a program that is designed to attract and influence in-store shoppers with micro-targeted digital content and real-time, personalized …

Prepaid wireless provider Boost Mobile, a subsidiary of mobile network operator Sprint, has announced a new mobile wallet for its customers. The Boost Mobile Wallet powered by Wipit, a mobile payment …

Payment gateway provider Stripe will be expanding its services to overseas merchants. According to Silicon Republic, the first outpost for Stripe in Europe will be Ireland. That's not a big surprise …

A constant refrain in mobile payments is that it's not about the transaction, it's about the data. Payment marketing provider Swipely is looking to build a business around that idea. The company has …

Virtual multi-channel banking solutions provider Auriga and online payment platform provider MyBank are combining their expertise to create an all-in-one mobile banking and payments app that will …

Peer-to-peer mobile payments is gaining more players. Last week, Google announced the ability to send funds to anyone using Gmail and a Google Wallet account. Now it looks like Square is getting into …

Given the recent changes to Google Wallet it was clear that the future of its Google Checkout payment gateway service was doubtful at best. The upgrades announced last week at the Google I/O …

Dunkin' Donuts is making its mobile payment app more accessible by letting users view content in Spanish. The company said it's the first national coffee retailer to make information, features and …

BlueSnap, a payment gateway provider, announced its new SnapConsole today. SnapConsole is a payment management console and platform meant to give merchants an easy option for online payments and …

For mobile payment startups, consumer adoption — i.e., getting customers in stores to actually pay using your app or sticker or whatever — is only half the battle. The other half, which …

Direct carrier billing, where consumers place the purchase of digital goods on their monthly phone bill, doesn't get the same attention as other mobile payment technologies like NFC or mobile wallets …

Just 10 weeks after Washington, D.C.-based sweetgreen launched a mobile payments and rewards app, CEO Nathaniel Ru is already calling it a success. The app, sweetgreen rewards, represents 18 percent …

In its ongoing effort to woo developers, PayPal announced new tools for Android developers earlier this week. The new Android SDK follows the release of an iOS mobile SDK in March. With the new SDKs …

Budapest Business Journal is reporting the national mobile payment system for Hungary will launch on time this fall despite issues over loans meant to pay for developing the network. The system …

Mobile Financial Service, the Brazilian joint venture announced last between wireless carrier Telefónica and MasterCard Worldwide, is ready to launch Brazil's first mobile payment service …

Telefónica Digital, the business division of wireless carrier Telefónica, is teaming with Samsung Electronics to make direct carrier billing easier. Direct carrier billing allows users …

Amidst the hoopla over new e-commerce and P2P features enabled on Google Wallet, it was easy to miss today's announcement that the Google Wallet for offline shopping was expanded to include new …