Pageonce has introduced the capability to pay individuals and small businesses through its new Pay Anyone service. "In addition to supporting thousands of national and regional bills, Pageonce now allows users to pay local bills such as rent, gardeners, piano teachers, pre-schools, sports teams, and more."

Visa announced the launch of a new plug-and-play mobile money platform that will make it easy and cost-efficient for financial institutions and mobile operators to offer mobile financial services to consumers.

The global platform is the world’s first bank-grade managed service for mobile money – meaning it allows Visa to host and fully manage all aspects of a mobile money program on behalf of the provider, from user interface design to consumer enrollment, transactions processing, authorization, clearing and settlement. The new service can enable domestic-only or globally interoperable mobile money services.

The new platform is built on Fundamo’s technology, the mobile money technology acquired by Visa in 2011.

On the web:

• 1-800-Flowers Testing Credit Card-Free Mobile Payments - Mashable
• Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Hunts for Online Password Alternatives - PCMag.com
• Stripe Rival Paymill Reveals $5M More Funding, From Blumberg Capital - TechCrunch
• Bucking the dongle, Buck launches mobile invoicing MobilePaymentsToday.com
• Balanced Launches A Standalone API For Next-Day ACH Payments - TechCrunch
• France Plans To Prohibit Cash Payments Over €1,000 - Forbes
• Isis Releases Utah Mobile Payments Usage Stats - NFC World

On the wires:

• Alliance Data Retail Services Expands Offering to Include Fiserve eBill Distribution
• Thales and Miura Help Reduce the Cost of Mobile Payments (Germany)
• Lack of Local Currency Pricing Suppresses Global eCommerce Sales (Survey)
• ACI Worldwide Arms Financial Institutions to Fight Accelerating Fraud