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Restaurant point-of-sale technology provider Toast Inc. has signed an agreement with Marriott International Inc. to make its Toast for Hotel Restaurants product available in the hotelier’s Select service hotels in the United States and Canada. A report from Mastercard Inc. indicates the proportion of cash-only customers in Latin America has dropped from 45% three …

Sylogist Ltd., a global provider of software-as-a-service to more than 2,000 public-sector customers across the government, nonprofit, and education sectors, has selected Nuvei Corp. as its payments processor. Nuvei will provide Sylogist with payments functionality including support for mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. In addition, Nuvei …

Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out payment technology is providing checkout-free shopping at Quick Six, a concept store at Six Flags Great Adventure, a Jackson, N.J., theme park. Announced recently, the store uses the Amazon-developed technology that requires consumers to scan a code on their cellphones that is tied to a …

Vontier Corp. said its Retail Solutions unit will provide cloud-based payments technology for Shell Oil Co. at more than 13,000 service stations by the end of next year. The U.S. unit of the big cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it will suspend dollar transactions as early as June 13 following word from partners they …

As proponents and adversaries wrangle over the newly resurrected Credit Card Competition Act, a market-research firm has raised by more than one-third its estimate of how much the bill could save U.S. merchants. A year ago, the firm, Atlanta-based CMS Payments Intelligence Inc., calculated the bill would result in $11 …

Apple Cash users will be able to set up weekly, biweekly, or monthly Apple Cash payments in the iOS 17 iPhone software coming this fall, Apple Inc. announced. Users also will be able to present digital IDs stored in Apple Wallet to businesses, such as for age verification. More than 96% …

Chargebacks911 is setting the stage for an e-commerce world full of ever-increasing digital payment—and chargebacks, a frequent challenge to management. To help, it is bringing on two payments veterans, one who oversaw merchant acceptance at Apple Pay and another who led merchant services at Bank of America Corp. Eric Hoffman, …

The Credit Card Competition Act is making a comeback, this time with more bipartisan support. The bill, originally launched last summer by Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan,), is expected to be reintroduced in the Senate, apparently with few changes, as early as this week, according to an …

The Securities and Exchange Commission sued cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, alleging the company operates as an unregistered broker. The suit comes on the heels of a similar SEC action against Coinbase competitor Binance. U.S.-based stablecoin platform Circle Internet Financial LLC said its Circle Singapore affiliate obtained a Major Payment Institution license from the Monetary …

Worldpay, a unit of processor FIS Inc., has partnered with open-banking gateway and real-time payments network Volt to enable merchants to accept account-to-account payments from consumers. Through the use of application programming interfaces Volt will enable Worldpay merchants to initiate account-to-account (A2A) payments using open-banking technology. Open banking allows banks …