The U.S. Department of Transportation is looking into airline rewards programs with an eye on protecting consumers from potential unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive practices, the department says. Many consumers use cobranded airline credit cards to earn points in these programs, though the DOT’s focus is on rewards, not on card-issuing …

With cash back as a favored consumer reward, PayPal Holdings Inc. is broadening its use with the debut of PayPal Everywhere, a rewards program for consumers on the PayPal Debit Mastercard. Announced Thursday, the program includes stackable cash-back offers and personalized ways to manage spending. It enables PayPal Debit cardholders …

Electronic Merchant Systems LLC is teaming up with LegitScript to give its health-care merchants access to a certification tag, while InvoiceCloud says Western National Insurance Group picked it for a new digital-payment and policyholder-relations service. Cleveland-based EMS, which processes approximately $6 billion in annual volume for 25,000 merchants, says the …

Ria Money Transfer said it is now the exclusive money-transfer provider at more than 200 U.S. PLS Check Cashers locations, a move that could expose Ria’s services to more than 3 million monthly PLS customers. Announced Tuesday, the deal enables Chicago-based PLS Financial Services Inc. to offer Ria’s money-transfer service, …

Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, says consumers that belong to the Sephora loyalty program can now use it to pay for transactions on the retailer’s Web site. Backed by some of the nation’s largest banks, Paze is an expedited checkout service that includes addresses and …

Retailers providing cash-back services at the point of sale fill a void for many consumers who may live in so-called banking deserts, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says in a new report on the service. Some, however, charge a fee for that access, along with other banking hurdles. The Cash-back …

TrustCommerce says the first client to use its Cloud Payments integration with Epic Systems Corp.’s health-care software for card-present payments is now live. Chicago-based TrustCommerce says The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is the first to use its Cloud Payments integration. Cloud Payments uses Android-based point-of-sale devices from PAX …

The ever-shifting attacks from online criminals has prompted Sift to launch ThreatClusters, a tool to detect similar fraud patterns across industries to better identify risk patterns. San Francisco-based Sift says traditional fraud-detection models too narrowly focus on a single organization’s data or apply insights too broadly across diverse industries. It …

Ransomware is a sobering item on every organization’s list of things to worry about. New data shows it might be more problematic than ever as the average ransomware demand reached $1,571,667 in the second quarter, more than double the average in the first quarter, according to “Q2 2024 Cyber Threat …

Having just launched earlier this month, PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Fastlane checkout has lined up processor and competitor Adyen NV as a partner. Designed to accelerate guest checkout flows, Fastlane is meant to help e-commerce retailers boost their conversion rates. Reducing friction in the guest-checkout process can help boost conversion rates for e-commerce …