If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught merchants anything, it’s that they need to take a radically wider sales approach to engage with customers online and offline, across any device, argues a new report from payments provider Square Inc. The report explores some of the ways merchants are using tools from …

With consumers eagerly embracing buy now, pay later payment options, Stripe Inc. on Tuesday announced it is partnering with BNPL powerhouse Klarna AB. The deal will enable Stripe merchants to offer Klarna BNPL loans to consumers in the United States and 19 countries throughout Europe. The deal also adds to …

As part of its strategy to become a full-service payments provider and serve a wider consumer base, buy now, pay later provider Sezzle Inc. on Monday announced a partnership with Alliance Data Systems Corp. to offer Alliance Data’s Bread installment-loan service to Sezzle merchants. The partnership builds on a deal …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau order handed down Thursday that asks Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Square Inc., and PayPal Holdings Inc. to turn over information about their payments products, plans, and practices has industry observers lining up on both sides of the …

As part of its strategy to remove friction from the accounts-payable and accounts-receivable process for small and medium-size businesses, payment-technology provider Veem Inc. on Thursday announced a partnership with Q2 Holdings, Inc., a provider of digital banking and lending solutions. Under the terms of the deal, Veem will make its …

Building on its strategy of expanding beyond payments acceptance, Stripe Inc. on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Recko Inc., a provider of payments-reconciliation software for Internet businesses. Terms were not disclosed. The deal follows the debut of new applications this year intended to carry out this strategy, such as Stripe …

The heady times for buy now, pay later just keep on rolling. Now, with 44% of consumers saying they have used BNPL options to make a purchase, according to personal-finance company Credit Karma LLC, providers of the point-of-sale financing have opened the ad-spending spigot.  A new report from MediaRadar, a …

Sensing an opportunity to expand the reach of its financial services to more small businesses, Intuit Inc. on Tuesday introduced Money by QuickBooks, a mobile app intended to make it easier for small sellers to accept payment, manage their cash flow, and pay bills. Intuit launched the app in response …

The movement to speed up cross-border payments received another boost Monday as Mastercard Inc. announced the integration of Mastercard Cross-Border Services, the card network’s global push payments platform, with Previse Ltd.’s InstantPay platform.  The cross-border payments integration, which leverages machine learning, will enable companies to identify invoices likely to be …

As part of its strategy to support application developers, open-banking platform provider Plaid Inc. this week introduced at its developer conference several tools to help developers create a broader range of financial technology applications regardless of the programming language developers use. The new suite of tools include Plaid Pattern apps, which …