Payments provider Citcon USA LLC said early Thursday it is unveiling plugins that will allow e-commerce platforms like Commerce Cloud, Magento, Salesforce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and others to offer merchants the ability to accept Alipay, WeChat Pay, and China UnionPay, as well as credit cards, without coding. The development represents a …

While merchants, banks, and payments providers may be tempted to blame sharply rising fraud rates on the pandemic, fraud losses were rising before Covid-19 set in and will continue to rise for as far as the eye can see, according to experts behind a major fraud report released this week. …

Free of the restraints of a legal agreement with PayPal Holdings Inc., eBay Inc. said early Monday it will now start on a global expansion of its 2-year-old managed-payments program. The program has already delivered $4.7 billion in total payment volume in the United States and Germany, the company said, …

With its core ride-hailing business ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, Uber Technologies Inc. has been looking to move further into adjacent transportation markets, including mass-transit ticketing and payments. This week, the company said it had bought Routematch Software, a 20-year-old, Atlanta-based developer of systems that manage trip booking and ticketing, …

Thanks to federal programs to deliver stimulus funds to businesses and individuals, the second-quarter slowdown automated clearing house governing body Nacha expected due to Covid-19 didn’t happen. In fact, the massive ACH network saw year-over-year growth in the April-through-June quarter of 7.9%, Nacha reported late Wednesday. The second quarter’s growth …

With the expiration of a major agreement with PayPal Holdings Inc. just a few days away, eBay Inc. is charting a new course in payments. But at least some merchants are hoping the e-commerce giant will address outstanding questions about how payments will be handled in the new era. According …

When the big card networks this spring postponed until April 2021 the fraud-liability deadline for EMV chip cards at gas pumps, the retail fuel industry heaved a huge sigh of relief. But now estimates are emerging that indicate even relatively small gas-station operators that don’t enable their pumps for EMV …

With consumers shopping online in greater numbers, the four major card networks are preparing to take their new single-click checkout technology international. American Express Co., Discover Financial Services, Mastercard Inc., and Visa Inc. said in a joint announcement Wednesday they are “beginning technical preparations” to launch the technology, Click to …

As businesses start to reopen, independent sales organizations and other payment providers are rolling out programs suited to the new reality faced by both proprietors and their customers. The latest example comes from VizyPay, which on Tuesday announced a service it says will help merchants attract old customers and pull …

Though Covid-19 still casts a long shadow over a number of U.S. states where early reopenings have led to a resurgence in  coronavirus cases, data released Monday indicate merchant volume is climbing rapidly across industries. The positive trend includes the hard-hit hospitality sector, according to the latest numbers.  Merchants in …