E-Commerce

In an expansion of the Just Walk Out technology that powers cashierless Amazon Go stores, Amazon.com Inc. is partnering with Transact Campus Inc., a provider of campus identification systems that enable student access to buildings and payments for such campus services as dining, laundry, and vending. Under the terms of …

Shift4 Payments Inc. has been cementing its position as a major payments provider for stadiums and arenas, and early on Wednesday it announced a big move into a closely related market: online ticketing. The Allentown, Pa.-based processor said it will handle payments for all tickets sold through Premier Productions’ iTickets.com …

Among some 108 banks in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, nearly half indicate they have lost at least 10% of their payments volume to fintechs, according to an Aite-Novarica report supported by payments platform Finastra. As a result, some 65% plan to make a significant or moderate investment in payments technology …

Businesses are increasingly looking for software developers that can integrate payments and other traditional banking products and services and generate new revenue for the platforms that offer them, according to a recent report from The Strawhecker Group (TSG) and KeyBank. The trend, known as embedded banking, is a way for …

Mercedes-Benz’s new Mercedes pay+ in-car payment service is coming to five models manufactured by the Germany-based luxury-car maker. Though earlier efforts from a variety of car makers put in-car payments on the road, Mercedes-Benz is the first, with its Mercedes pay+ technology, to use Visa Inc.’s Delegated Authentication and Cloud …

The payments orchestration platform Spreedly announced integrations to Venmo, PayPal Credit, PayPal Pay Later, and automated clearing house payments for clients of PayPal and Spreedly who process through PayPal’s Braintree unit. In related news, payments provider CellPoint Digital said airline Icelandair will use its Velocity payment orchestration platform to access payment providers in countries …

To better serve the growing segment of online shoppers who don’t want to wait for delivery and want to avoid paying shipping costs, e-commerce platform provider BigCommerce Pty. Ltd. has added buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) capabilities. The move is being spurred in part by the continued growth …

The major Canadian processor Nuvei Corp. on Sunday announced the next step in its international expansion with the news that it has begun operations in Australia to process e-commerce traffic. The move follows a trend as North American processors master overseas payment methods and look to compete with local providers. …

The big processor FIS Inc. may be a possible acquisition target of Visa Inc., according to news reports that emerged last week. The card network reportedly was eyeing FIS before the processor announced last month it would spin off its Worldpay processing unit but might still bid to acquire all or part of the …

As industry lobbyists prepare to converge on Capitol Hill next week, payments interest groups are issuing salvos designed to move the argument over limits on credit card acceptance costs in their favor. One such advance move came Thursday with an email campaign launched by the Electronic Payments Coalition citing a …