WorldPay

A global payments provider WorldPay has entered a partnership with the National Business Awards to launch the Online Business of the Year category. The award category is meant for 2011 award ceremony that is dedicated to the contribution of e-commerce to the UK economic recovery. WorldPay will be the title sponsor for the award.

Global payments provider WorldPay plans to acquire Envoy Services Limited, a provider of alternative payment solutions to ecommerce merchants across the globe. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Envoy is a UK FSA-regulated global payments service founded in 2005. The service offers single point access to popular local payment and collection services worldwide.

WorldPay launched a new mobile reseller program based on CellPoint Mobile's mobile payment solution mPoint. Now with the new program WorldPay can process any type of mobile transactions such as remote mobile payments, proximity, online and Point of Sale transactions.

By means of CellPoint Mobile's mPoint® mobile payment solution WorldPay can adjust its product specifically for seamless mobile payment services for the retail and transport industries.

A global payment service provider WorldPay is partnering with RSA, The Security Division of EMC dealing, to support the cardholder verification processes in the US and UK when RSA provides RSA® Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce authentication services for major card associations.

As part of RSA’s ecommerce security services, RSA now incorporates the WorldPay Risk Guardian platform, one of the leading ecommerce platforms in the industry, to help it process card owner verification checks.

Direct Debit Limited has partnered with WorldPay to provide a single comprehensive payment platform to their customers.

Through this partnership clients of both companies will be able to collect numerous payment types, including credit and debit card, Direct Debit, SEPA and Faster Payments, through one system.

As it became known American Express has entered struggle battle for the Royal Bank of Scotland's WorldPay payment processing business, teaming up with Permira, UK private equity company.

About six bidders are still struggling for the business, which RBS is being forced to sell by the European competition authorities as a condition for joining the UK government's asset protection scheme.