Credit Cards

Location-technology vendor Mapbox launched MapGPT, an automobile-based voice assistant incorporating generative artificial intelligence. Among its features is an ability to process payments, starting in Japan with that country’s PayPay app. Stop & Shop and Food Lion have adopted a mobile shopping app from Peapod Digital Labs, an e-commerce technology developer for Ahold Delhaize …

Almost a year after vowing to make its PayPal- and Venmo-branded credit and debit cards available in Apple Wallet, PayPal Holdings Inc. has come through on that promise. With the move, announced Wednesday, eligible PayPal and Venmo cards can be added to Apple Wallet by tapping the “Add Debit or …

The Federal Reserve said FedNow, its real-time payments service that launched in July with 35 banks and credit unions, now counts 108 participating institutions with 21 others providing liquidity and settlement services and 20 service providers. Kenneth C. Montgomery, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston first vice president and chief operating officer who spearheaded …

Visa Inc. is touting recent changes to how chargebacks that could be first-party fraud, also known as friendly fraud, are processed as potentially saving small businesses globally $1 billion in costs over the next five years. Expectations are that the streamlined process will increase merchants’ ability to provide more accurate …

U.S.-based network-management company Transaction Network Services said its technology will manage connectivity for Spain-based Euro Automatic Cash, a network of 1,500 ATMs. Tiptap, a donation platform, said it will enable Visa member financial institutions to offer customers a platform to make small donations to community charities while they are performing routine banking …

Citcon USA LLC, an e-commerce wallet-technology provider, is adding Block Inc.’s Cash App Pay and Afterpay buy now, pay later payment methods to its inventory of merchant options. In related news, Block’s Square point-of-sale unit is bolstering merchant selling tools with new online features. Citcon’s integration of Cash App Pay, …

Automaker Mercedes-Benz is enabling in-car fuel payments for users of its Mercedes pay+ service. Announced Monday, the service also integrates Mastercard Inc.’s Secure Card on File for Commerce Platform technology. Available initially only on select Mercedes models in Germany, the fuel payment app joins a parking-payment app the giant carmaker …

The number of digital transactions globally will rise 12% in 2024 to cross the 1-trillion mark, Juniper Research forecasts. Near-field communication (NFC) payments, otherwise known as tap-and-pay, will grow fastest, at 30%, followed by digital ticketing (19%), according to Juniper. The Canada-based commerce platform Shopify will enable payments for India-based e-commerce merchants directly on …

Most bankers know that today’s payments are broken. From keeping pace with evolving customer experiences, to navigating the changing regulatory environment, to overcoming competitive threats from nonbanks, many have become so frustrated they are debating whether to abandon some in-house payments channels entirely. Consumers, too, are becoming frustrated with the …

Supporters and U.S. Senate sponsors of the Credit Card Competition Act stepped up pressure to pass the bill Wednesday with a Washington press conference featuring Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.). The legislators attacked merchants’ card-transaction costs as price gouging and said the levies make …