Competitive Strategies

Consumers shopping for the latest in Adidas shoes and sportswear have a new payment option online and in-app with Amazon.com Inc.’s Buy with Prime option. In related e-commerce news, pay-over-time provider Affirm says its exclusive buy now, pay later service for Shop Pay on the Shopify platform will be available …

For financial institutions that have so far adopted real-time payments, 58% have opted for both FedNow and The Clearing House Payments Co.’s RTP system. But only 41% of large banks and 28% of businesses agree that the United States is moving fast enough toward adoption of faster payments. This is …

Mastercard Inc. announced early Wednesday the launch of One Credential, a digital-payment solution that supports multiple payment methods such as credit, debit, and prepaid, as well as installment loans, on a single card. Targeted primarily at Gen Zers, One Credential allows consumers to tailor their payment methods to better manage …

Shift4 Payments Inc. is beefing up its operations in Europe on the eve of founder and chief executive Jared Isaacman’s departure to run the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Allentown, Pa.-based processor announced late Tuesday a $2.5-billion agreement to acquire Global Blue, a Switzerland-based international platform providing transaction services …

Toast Inc. has signed Ascent Hospitality Management, which owns and manages the Perkins American Food Co. and Huddle House restaurant chains, as a client. Ascent will install Toast’s payments platform in 500 Perkins and Huddle House locations initially. Ascent installed the first Toast platform at a Perkins location last fall, the …

Mastercard Inc. is launching a new service it says will help financial institutions better serve their middle-market business clients. The card brand also is working with Feedzai, a fraud-prevention provider, to help FIs better identify and stop scams. Announced Tuesday, the Mastercard Mid-Market Accelerator suite of products is aimed at …

CellPoint Digital Holdings Ltd. introduced a new payment-orchestration platform aimed at simplifying travel payments and related orders and offers. Merchant data provider Spade Data Inc. said it will work with Bilt Rewards, a loyalty provider for home and rent payments, to provide more merchant details to Bilt users. PSQ Holdings Inc. said it has …

Now Book It, a vendor of table-reservation and payments software for restaurants in Australia and New Zealand, has expanded to Canada. Canada has more than 100,000 locations that serve food, such as restaurants, cafés and brew pubs, generating $112 billion in annual sales, according to Restaurants Canada. In addition, 23 …

Third Federal Savings & Loan, a Cleveland-based bank with $17.1 billion in assets, is adopting Fiserv Inc.’s DNA platform. Fiserv acquired the core-processing platform in 2013 with an acquisition. Among the platform’s features is an AppMarket. Users can select a variety of payments apps, such as for automated clearing house …

InComm Payments, which has launched the Mastercard Give Hope gift card, has agreed to donate to the American Red Cross $2 from the purchase price of each card sold on mastercardgiftcard.com. Cubic Transportation Systems Inc., a developer of payments technologies for mass-transit systems, announced it is opening an innovation center …