JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the latest to join the buy now, pay later trend with “My Chase Plan,” which allows holders of Chase consumer credit cards to pay off purchases over time with no interest. A monthly fee applies.Debit card use in mobile wallets soared 58.6% for the week ending …

Visa Inc. has invested an undisclosed sum in Lisnr Inc., an 8-year-old startup whose technology enables mobile payments via sound waves. The fresh investment follows an initial funding Visa made in the company a year ago.Century Business Solutions said its EBizCharge payment service is certified for the Sage Intacct Marketplace to be …

Card-present and card-not-present transactions for small businesses in the CardFlight Small Business Report for Nov. 11 held steady from the week prior. Card-present transactions stood at 14.6% of sales, compared to 12.9% the week before. Card-not-present transactions were at 38.4%, compared with 37.2% a week earlier.MerchantE, a provider of technology to merchants …

Research from Inmar Intelligence found that 53% of shoppers used a mobile contactless payment option for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Additionally, most—55%—of the 1,000 respondents surveyed said they have been avoiding using cash in general in the same period. A full 28% will avoid retailers not offering …

Nacha announced the first transactions on its Phixius network, which facilitates information exchange between payors and payees using the automated clearing house network. The Phixius network relies on standardized open application programming interfaces. Nacha announced in February its intention to develop Phixius. Visa Inc. joined in August.Authentication services provider Paay and Bluefin Payment Systems, …

Professional Datasolutions Inc., which acquired private-label debit provider ZipLine in June, said it is working with NCR Corp. on a touch-free mobile payment service for the convenience-store industry.Payment card use among travel companies remained substantially down year-over-year, according to the Tracking Transaction Trends report from PSCU, a credit union service organization, for the …

USA Technologies Inc., which provides technology to the vending industry for payments acceptance, reported 15,000 net new connections in its fiscal 2021 first quarter, bringing the total to 1,335,000. Revenue rose 13% from the previous quarter to $36.9 million, but was down 15% from the year-ago quarter. The company shaved …

EVO Payments Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $117 million, a 4.4% decrease from $122.4 million in the same period a year ago. Its profit, however, of $5.8 million reversed a $1.8 million loss last year. In the quarter, EVO launched EVO Direct Deposit, a real-time settlement service for merchants.The Covid-19 pandemic made …

Payments provider Gravity Payments said it is processing mobile transactions for IDS Service360, a new software product that integrates with a management system from Integrated Dealer Systems for RV, marine, and trailer dealers.Coro Global Inc., whose app allows users to make payments backed by physical gold, announced its Coro Corp. unit has …

Payment card manufacturer CPI Card Group Inc. said net sales of debit and credit cards grew 22% year-over-year to $62.7 million in the third quarter. Net sales of prepaid debit cards dipped 1% to $20.6 million. For the nine months through September, credit and debit card sales rose 19% to $180.9 million, …