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Shift4 Payments Inc. will provide tokenization, gateway, and end-to-end payment processing for a digital-commerce platform from Sionic Mobile Corp., according to a joint announcement from the companies. The initial focus is on restaurants, including services for online ordering and existing mobile payment and loyalty apps.Fiserv Inc. announced that starting Tuesday consumers with Alexa-enabled cars or …

Cashierless technology is spreading as stores hunt for ways to automate service and payments while keeping operating costs in check. The latest example is supermarket chain Giant Eagle Inc., which has teamed up with Grabango Co., a Berkeley, Calif.-based provider of checkout-free technology, to introduce cashierless technology to its GetGo …

Online criminals are now launching most of their phishing attacks from domains secured by the HTTPS protocol—and they’re hijacking the sites they need to do it, according to the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a security-industry organization that tracks the crime. Some 77.6% of phishing sites in the …

Circle K, Delaware North, Dunkin’, and White Castle are among retailers working with Mastercard Inc.’s Shop Anywhere and AI Powered Drive Through services, which aim to reduce customer waiting times and checkout lines while offering vehicle recognition, voice ordering, and artifical intelligence for drive-through lanes.Point-of-sale installment lender Affirm Inc. announced it is providing …

It’s become a common assertion in the payments business that consumers are turning to online sites for shopping as they contend with the various impacts of Covid-19. Now government data indicates just how well-founded that assertion is. E-commerce dollar volume in the second quarter totaled $211.5 billion, up 32% from …

With more independent software providers and financial-technology companies embedding payment capabilities in their applications, Finix Payments Inc., a provider of payment applications, has seen its transaction volume jump more than fourfold from the second quarter of 2019 through the second quarter of 2020. Key drivers of the growth include a …

Cloud-based business software provider Bill.com has teamed with KeyBank to launch Key CashFlow, an online-banking facility that streamlines payments for small businesses.Point-of-sale installment lender Affirm Inc. said it is working with David’s Bridal to allow brides to pay for their wedding gowns with payments over three or six months at …

Refused transactions are frustrating enough for cardholders and merchants, but during a pandemic they could be especially nerve-wracking. Visa Inc. on Wednesday announced a new service for stand-in processing that the payments network says should yield faster and more accurate results when issuers’ systems are down. The new Smarter STIP …

EVO Payments Inc. said it will offer payment equipment and services from On Track Innovations Ltd. to independent software vendors and unattended payments merchants.Bluefin Payment Systems LLC announced that Invoice Cloud, an electronic bill presentment and payment provider, will use Bluefin’s point-to-point encryption service.Data security services provider ControlScan Inc. said …

With less than a year to go before gas stations are scheduled to become EMV-compliant at the pump, readiness among fuel merchants remains uneven. A recent study by Naples, Fla.-based ACI Worldwide reveals 47% of major petroleum merchants remain unprepared to meet the deadline and 20% are still in the …