The major U.S. payments processor Shift4 Payments Inc. said early Monday it will work with Fabrick S.p.a. to offer the Milan-based company’s embedded-finance and payments-orchestration services to merchants in Europe. Terms of the deal were not immediately available. For Fabrick, the deal means the 6-year-old company can rely on Shift4’s …

Marqeta Inc. early Thursday said it has become the first card-issuing platform to adopt technology announced earlier this year by Visa Inc. that lets cardholders toggle among a variety of payment methods for a single card rather than be restricted to the payment type indicated by the card itself. Oakland, …

Fiserv Inc.’s top brass early Wednesday celebrated a second quarter in which adjusted revenue jumped 7% and adjusted earnings per share grew 18%, but it was new programs and alliances—including one with Apple Inc.—that took center stage as the company presented its second-quarter results. Cash Flow Central, a banking alliance …

At more than $16 billion, revenue for American Express Co. hit an all-time high in the company’s June quarter, and now the travel-and-entertainment card giant is looking to ramp up marketing—radically. The company’s top brass said early Friday AmEx will pour $6 billion this year into selling consumers and businesses …

Instances of data compromise in the United States were down in the second quarter, but the good news pretty much ends there, according to information released early Wednesday by the Identity Theft Resource Center. Cybercriminals pulled off 732 total compromises online in the second quarter, a total that was down …

Under pressure from the European Commission, Apple Inc. agreed Thursday to open the contactless-payment technology in its iPhone for payments on wallets from outside developers. The agreement follows two years of investigation by the regulator, which has argued the exclusion of rival wallets from using the iPhone’s near-field communication chip …

The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC reported early Wednesday its 7-year-old RTP service on June 28 exceeded $1 billion in daily volume for the first time. TCH waited a week and a half to disclose the milestone as it worked out what the factors were behind the record-setting performance, only …

Barely more than a year after the Federal Reserve launched its FedNow platform, banks and service providers are finding ways to bring real-time payment capability to niche businesses. The latest example emerged early Tuesday with an announcement that Cross River Bank, a technology-oriented financial institution, is working with payments platform …

Consumers may be well acquainted with the concept of overdraft protection when writing checks, but early Monday Discover Financial Services said it is extending the service to its debit cards. Cardholders who hold the company’s Cashback Debit Checking account are eligible for the new service, called Balance+. “With Balance+ we …

The Canada-based payments provider Helcim Inc., which like many processors works with a range of third-party partners, said late on Tuesday it is stepping up that collaboration to allow these integration partners to share in the company’s transaction revenue. Helcim figures revenue sharing will help attract yet more developers and …