Add Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena to Shift4 Payments Inc.’s growing list of sports and entertainment venues to which the company provides payment processing. T-Mobile Arena is home to the National Hockey League’s Las Vegas Golden Knights franchise and hosts other entertainment events on the Las Vegas strip.  Shift4 will process …

Terminal maker Verifone Inc. expanded its buy now pay later options Tuesday through a partnership with Affirm Inc. The deal will enable merchants using Verifone terminals to automatically offer Affirm as a payment option online and in-store. Merchants will be able to offer Affirm’s full range of payment options, including …

As part of its strategy to expand its offering of multichannel payment technology, payment-platform provider NMI announced Tuesday the acquisition of IRIS CRM, a merchant-services customer relationship management and merchant-management platform that services clients in the payments industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  The addition of IRIS CRM …

Stripe Inc. announced Monday a five-year deal with Ford Credit, Ford Motor Company’s financial-services arm, to develop new e-commerce applications for Ford customers and dealers in North America and Europe. The agreement also includes processing payments for the automaker’s dealer network and providing Ford dealers with an improved payment-acceptance platform.  …

As part of its effort to help users of its Phixius payment-data network mitigate fraud and enhance payment-routing certainty, Nacha announced Thursday the network will enable originators, fintechs, and financial institutions that originate and receive electronic payments to verify payment-related information, such as account ownership, account numbers, and routing information. …

Buy now, pay later loans are extremely popular, especially among Millennials and Gen Zers, because the loans give them more purchasing power, and they can spread out the payments, usually without having to pay interest.  Yet, despite the immense popularity of BNPL loans, evidence is emerging that consumers with multiple …

Having committed to rolling out automated voice ordering in drive-thru lanes at its corporate-owned restaurants, Checkers Drive-in Restaurants Inc. expects the new technology will improve order accuracy and significantly increase ticket sizes through more efficient upselling practices. Checkers’ commitment to automated voice ordering, which it announced Monday, comes at a time …

As part of its drive to increase operating efficiency, Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. is rolling out an artificial intelligence-based voice-automated ordering system. The system will enable consumers to place orders at the drive-thru lane of corporate-owned Checkers and Rally’s restaurants without the assistance of a restaurant employee. Checkers, which specializes …

PayFacto Inc., a payment solutions provider specializing in the hospitality industry, announced Thursday the acquisition of iShop, a technology provider for restaurants. The deal, for which terms were not disclosed, gives Montreal-based PayFacto an in-house online-ordering solution, something the company found was missing in its technology stack. As a result, …

As part of its strategy to bring digital- and mobile-banking experiences to its customers, Synovus Financial Corp. has introduced a mobile virtual commercial credit card. The Visa Inc.-branded cards, which businesses can generate and send to employees, vendors, and contractors through a mobile app, will be enabled in a digital …