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PayPal Holdings Inc.’s decision to bring its Zettle point-of-sale technology to the U.S. market may not surprise observers, but the move presents some formidable challenges, chiefly in the form of the existing competition, some observers say. At the same time, they add, Zettle brings a potent brand that fills a …

Health-care technology provider R1 RCM Inc. has closed on its acquisition of VisitPay LLC, a platform specializing in medical payments. R1 announced in early May it would acquire VisitPay for approximately $300 million in cash.Personal-finance app provider Charlie Finance Co. announced new services, including DirectPay, which lets users link credit cards to the app …

ParkMobile LLC Thursday expanded its partnership with parking-lot operator The Car Park to Raleigh, Asheville, and Boone, North Carolina. Previously, The Car Park worked with another payment provider in those cities. The deal also builds on an existing relationship The Car Park has with ParkMobile in Tampa, Boise, Estes Park, …

If there’s a software need for your business—accounting, payroll management, lease portfolio management, and the like— then it’s likely your business is working with several different vendors at any given point during the working day. All the vendors you are working with won’t always be obvious, particularly if you’re working …

Fifteen months after suspending its popular Visitor Toll Pass program due to travel restrictions placed on tourists moving through Orlando International Airport during the Covid pandemic, the Central Florida Expressway Authority on Wednesday rebooted the program. The Visitor Toll Pass, which debuted in May 2019 and was suspended in March …

As the popularity of using quick-response codes for payment at the point-of-sale grows, the trend toward offering the technology to software developers and merchants has gained momentum and now includes small and mid-sized processors. Omnichannel payment gateway Cardknox Development Inc. on Monday became the latest processor to enter the fray, …

Consumers’ use of digital channels to pay bills continues to rise even as the Covid-19 pandemic begins to ease, according to a study by ACI Worldwide Inc. In looking at how consumers’ use of digital channels, such as Web sites and mobile apps, has grown during the first half of …

Looking to make debit cards more attractive to consumers by offering incentives that rival those found in credit card rewards and loyalty programs, Oxygen Inc., a San Francisco-based financial-services technology provider, on Wednesday introduced Elements, a tiered rewards and loyalty program for debit card holders. Rewards available through Elements include …

Plenty of reports since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic have documented how consumers have responded by shifting to e-commerce—some for the first time—but few reports break out the impact on the mobile segment of that number. It turns out the pandemic has spurred considerable shopping by mobile-phone users, as …

Buy now, pay later specialist Afterpay Ltd. said it is now available through its app to customers of Amazon, CVS, Dell, Kroger, Macy’s, Nike, Target, Walgreen’s, and other major brands.EVO Payments Inc. has added automated clearing house processing to its PayFabric gateway. EVO’s ACH processing can be integrated into a merchant’s Web site …