Acquiring

Payment gateway Slim CD Inc. revealed a data breach resulting from suspicious activity it became aware of on June 15. The investigation found unauthorized system access between Aug. 17, 2023, and June 15, 2024. It says credit card information may have been viewed or obtained. Slim CD said it took measures to …

Credit and debit cards from U.S. Bank are now ready to use with Paze, the online checkout platform, which comes preloaded with access to up to 150 million payment cards. Paze is in the midst of a national rollout as it seeks to give issuers an edge in e-commerce checkout. …

Retailing giant Costco Wholesale Corp. has contracted with technology company Vontier to install new payments devices and software at the chain’s 76 fueling stations in Canada, starting next month. Vontier two years ago acquired Invenco, a company that included long-time fueling-technology provider Gilbarco Veeder-Root. Payment processor Silverflow said it has reached a new agreement …

Merchants in the United States paid $224 billion in card-acceptance costs in 2023, the highest toll for merchants in any country in the world, according to payment consultancy CMSPI’s State of the Industry Report. Interchange fees alone accounted for $143 billion of that total. Since 2009, U.S. merchants’ like-for-like payment …

Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. said it has integrated its services with Otelier, a technology platform for the hospitality market, to enable vendor payments from the same platform where clients process invoices. Payments platform Nayax announced it has worked with A2Z Cust2Mate to create technology that allows shoppers to manage and pay for items …

PayPal Holdings Inc. began working with the Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify Inc. two years ago in France, and now the two are bringing the act to the U.S. market. PayPal said early Monday it has agreed to process card transactions for Shopify’s gateway, Shopify Payments, in an arrangement that could …

Adyen NV early Monday began launching what its calls an intelligent-routing service for debit cards intended to reduce merchants’ debit-acceptance costs and increase authorizations for purchases. The service, which enables Adyen to choose which network to route transactions over, was developed primarily in response to the Federal Reserve’s 2023 statement …

MyKaarma, a payments service for automobile dealers, said its surcharge service, myKaarma Surcharge, has achieved compliance with Honest Pricing Laws that have been enacted in several states, including California and New York. Surcharging allows merchants to add their cost of credit card acceptance to a bill when a customer presents a credit …

American Express Co. expects its pilot program enabling cardholders to add their payment information at participating online merchants will please cardholders and make for smoother checkouts. The pilot, announced Thursday, allows AmEx cardholders to add or update their card information and store it for use at a participating merchant through …

Chase emailed its cardholders Friday that it will soon offer Paze, a new online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, and that eligible Chase credit and debit cards will be linked to Paze. The bank will notify cardholders when Paze is ready for use. Chase also provided the option to opt …