Competitive Strategies

Zip Co. Ltd. expanded its buy now, pay later portfolio Wednesday with the roll out of the Zip Card. Cardholders can use the card, issued by WebBank, a Salt Lake City-based industrial bank, to make purchases in store and online and pay off those purchases in four installments.  During the …

Events.com announced it has agreed to acquire Brown Paper Tickets, a payments processor for ticketing. Terms were not announced.PayPal Holdings Inc. said Amazon.com Inc. has added its Venmo digital wallet as a payment method on Amazon.com and in the Amazon mobile app. Venmo on Amazon will be available to U.S. customers by Nov. 25 …

It was only a matter of time before the two big international card networks responded to a recent Federal Reserve requirement that issuers make at least two unrelated networks available to merchants for debit card transactions. Late Tuesday, Visa Inc.’s chief financial officer, Vasant Prabhu, said the impact of the …

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s next step in payment security is to replace passwords with passkeys, an authentication technology that could eliminate many security and practical issues for consumers and organizations alike. PayPal said it is adding the passkey technology—it uses cryptographic keys to identify devices and was developed by the FIDO …

Financial-services technology provider Jack Henry & Associates Inc. launched a real-time peer-to-peer payments platform, based on the Digital Payments Platform from the payments-technology firm Payrailz. Jack Henry acquired Payrailz in September for undisclosed terms.Gr4vy, a U.S.-based payments-technology provider, said Australia’s Woolworths Group will use the company’s payments-orchestration platform to run the retailer’s Wpay service. …

Open banking is getting closer to mass relevance for financial-technology companies. A study released Monday by Discover Global Network and 451 Research found that fully 78% of fintechs said open banking is relevant to their business. One likely factor behind that trend is the positive consumer sentiment that fintechs are …

BNY Mellon announced early Monday it has launched a payments platform called Vaia, which allows clients to offer real-time payments, same-day automated clearing house transfers, tokenized payments, debit cards, and payments through the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network. The nation’s 10th-largest bank by assets said the panoply of payments capabilities can …

Payments provider Adyen NV launched two new services—Capital and Account, offering to small businesses cash advances, business bank accounts, and card-issuing capability.Payment platform GoCardless launched Protect+, an anti-fraud service offering payor authentication, fraud monitoring, and chargeback challenges.Payments-technology provider Payoneer said it has collaborated with e-commerce platform WooCommerce to enable Payoneer Checkout via a plug-in for small …

Fueled by growth in goods and services and travel and entertainment spending, American Express Co. on Friday reported third-quarter revenue of $13.6 billion, a 24% increase from the same period last year. Net income for the quarter totaled $1.9 billion compared to $1.8 billion a year ago. Overall cardholder spending …

Fraud prevention services provider Signifyd launched Fearless Payments, a suite of services to help payment service providers increase authorization rates. Among its features are automated risk decisions, authorization rate optimization, and chargeback guarantees on all approved orders.Diebold Nixdorf Inc. announced it will integrate fraud-prevention technology from Featurespace into its Vynamic payments-processing platform.CSG Forte, …