Dwolla and mFoundry announced a partnership that extends Dwolla's peer-to-peer money transfer service to mFoundry's mobile banking customers.

“mFoundry’s network of more than 800 banks and credit unions creates a breakthrough opportunity to offer peer-to-peer payments to millions of banking customers who want a cost-effective way to move money,” said Dwolla CEO Ben Milne. “Dwolla's partnership with mFoundry delivers an affordable, safe and convenient way to pay anyone at anytime.”

The UK Payments Council has an interesting educational portal, called Pay Your Way, for consumers to get a better understanding of how payments work in the UK.

The Pay Your Way website aims to help consumers by providing impartial information on the different payment methods available. The information helps you to compare their speed, cost, reliability and security, find out about new payment technology and ask an expert your questions about payments.

Good explanation of when and how to use a dozen or so common payment methods in the UK, including Faster Payments and even PayPal.

peerTransfer, a cross-border tuition payments providers, announced that it has surpassed the 200-school milestone and now has reach to 28% of the United States’ higher education market.

“There is obviously an unmet need in the industry," said Iker Marcaide, CEO of peerTransfer. "We have grown the company exponentially and have been laser-focused on helping international students and their schools make paying for tuition as seamless as possible. I’m excited that within a year’s time we’ve experienced over a 500 percent growth in school deployments.”

In one year, peerTransfer has increased the number of payments processed by 10-fold, the number of currencies supported nearly doubled, and the number of schools it is partnered with has increased from 41 schools to 212.

On the web:

• Groupon Eyes Restaurants With Nationwide iPad POS Offering - chicagotribune.com
• Apple's Passbook: Helping To Make Baseball Tickets Extinct (12% Adoption) - TUAW
• Isis Mobile Wallet Set For Oct. 22 Release In Austin And Salt Lake City - NFCNews
• Stripe’s New Payments Product Could Be A Boon For Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce Startups - TechCrunch

On the wires:

• Vindicia Chosen by LogMeIn to Optimize Customer Retention and Subscription Renewals
• TSYS Signs International Payments Agreement with Scotiabank
• Alaric Launches A Unique “On Premises” Solution for Optimal CNP Fraud Prevention
• BillingTree Extends Industry Partnership Program into Electronic Patient Payments
• MasterCard Unveils MasterCard Labs Dublin