Quick Response codes are one of the many payment options to flourish as consumers embrace digital and contactless payments in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, says a report from Blackhawk Network Inc.  Of the 13,000 respondents surveyed across nine countries representing nearly half of the world’s card-payment volume, 18% …

The Covid-19 pandemic forced many restaurants to change the way they do business by providing online and mobile ordering, and even setting up pickup and delivery-only kitchens to meet consumers’ changing ordering preferences. With that need in mind, Square Inc. on Thursday announced its kitchen-display system, Square KDS, will now …

Houston-based P97 Networks Inc., a provider of cloud-based mobile-commerce technology, on Tuesday announced it is adding pay-at-the-pump and electric-vehicle charging functionality to Petro-Canada’s and Petro-Canada EV’s mobile apps. Consumers will also be able to use the apps to locate Petro-Canada locations and earn and redeem loyalty points.  P97’s mobile technology integrates …

Building on its strategy to enable application developers to connect to its platform faster, and in turn bring their applications to market faster, Dwolla Inc. is offering what it calls Drop-in Components. It’s a low-code programming option, so called because it allows developers to integrate Dwolla’s application programming interface using …

MagicCube Inc. announced Monday that Dojo, a United Kingdom-based payments provider, will adopt MagicCube’s i-Accept software, which converts off-the-shelf mobile devices into point-of-sale terminals. Dojo will integrate i-Accept into its SoftPos + PIN platform in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.   The integration is expected to give Dojo …

At its fifth annual partner and developer conference, Square Inc. on Thursday announced three new tools for software developers: Snippets API for Square Online, Loyalty API, and the Web Payments software development kit (SDK). The new tools arrive as e-commerce volume has exploded in the past year and as larger …

While mobile-wallet ownership holds steady at 45%, younger consumers are embracing the payment technology more readily than they were 10 months ago, according to a research from the big processor FIS Inc. As of February, 65% of young Millennials use a mobile wallet, compared to 59% in April 2020. In …

Bolt Financial Inc. is betting its single sign-on checkout application, Bolt SSO Commerce, will make it easier for e-commerce stores to steer shoppers away from using guest checkout. Instead, they can open an account while at the same time saving their payment credentials in one click at checkout. While anonymous …

Prices for cloned credit cards and the accompanying account data for sale on the dark Web are on the rise, while data from hacked cryptocurrency accounts command some of the highest prices, according to a report from PrivacyAffairs.com, an online publication from Romania-based Zisk Web Ltd. From October 2020 through February …

Despite posting significant gains in dollar and transaction volume in the first quarter, Zelle, the fast-growing peer-to-peer network operated by Early Warning Services LLC, says it has just begun to mine P2P payments’ growth potential.  Earlier this week, Zelle announced $106 billion was sent through its network on 392 million …