The e-commerce platform BigCommerce Pty Ltd. on Wednesday announced two new supported payment methods, including PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Venmo service. With the addition of Venmo, Austin-based BigCommerce gave a big lift to PayPal’s strategy to find revenue for what has been a fast-growing but free peer-to-peer payment service, though merchant pricing …
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Microsoft Integrates Microsoft Pay With Masterpass In Its Latest Bid to Enhance the Wallet
Microsoft Corp. continues to make enhancements to Microsoft Pay in a highly competitive market for digital wallets. This week, the computing giant said Microsoft Pay has been integrated with Masterpass, the online wallet from Mastercard Inc. that lets consumers pay with stored credentials from a variety of payment providers. “We …
Read More »Are Masterpass and Visa Checkout Doomed by the New Shared Buy Button?
Speculation that Visa Checkout and Masterpass brands may be on the way out has surfaced following announcements last week from Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. they would support a shared buy button for online purchases based on EMVCo’s Secure Remote Commerce specification. Reports of a possible phaseout of Masterpass, launched …
Read More »Masterpass Accepted on BJs.com and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/13/18
Mastercard Inc. announced that consumers shopping on BJs.com, the e-commerce site for BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc., now can use its Masterpass digital wallet as a payment method. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reported that it processed $316.3 billion in merchant payment volume in the first quarter, up 15% from $274.3 billion …
Read More »Masterpass Coming to Phillips 66 App and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/9/18
Mi9 Retail, a vendor of point-of-sale software, announced an integration that will allow merchants to process transactions through payments provider Adyen’s platform. Mi9 serves more than 450 retail businesses globally. Mastercard Inc. said Phillips 66 later this year will integrate Masterpass into the My Phillips 66 app, which will allow …
Read More »Masterpass Books Expedia and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Mobile-payments provider LevelUp said it has closed a $50 million funding round with participation by existing investor JPMorgan Chase & Co. as well as US Boston and CentroCredit Bank. LevelUp, which says its user count is nearly 1 million, is the subject of a lawsuit by competitor CardFree Inc. alleging LevelUp fraudulently …
Read More »Mastercard Looks to Scale up Masterpass And Order-Ahead With an Oracle Tie-Up
Mastercard Inc. and Oracle Corp. announced Monday a collaboration that could dramatically expand the reach of Mastercard’s Masterpass digital-wallet technology, as well as the network’s tokenization capability. Masterpass will be embedded into Oracle’s POS systems for retail and hospitality merchants. The companies said Oracle will embed Masterpass in systems it …
Read More »Eye on Wallets: Limited Battery-Fire Impact; Masterpass Update; Wayfair Takes Apple Pay Online
By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews Mobile-payments services have plenty of issues with adoption and usage, but battery fires aren’t likely to be among them. While it’s true that a consumer can’t use a mobile wallet if he’s afraid his smart phone will ignite, payments experts say the problem that developed last …
Read More »Facing an Array of Wallet Rivals, MasterCard Launches a Revamped Masterpass Service
MasterCard Inc. on Thursday rolled out a revamped Masterpass digital wallet it clearly hopes will out-compete offerings from technology titans like Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., all of which have come into the market since Masterpass’s capability the original wallet had at its launch, though it …
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