E-Commerce

Payments-technology provider Galileo Financial Technologies LLC announced an integration with data aggregator Plaid Inc. Through Plaid’s links to financial institutions, the tie-in will allow Galileo clients to more readily authorize users for automated clearing house transactions. Visa Inc. announced in January a deal to acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. Social Finance Inc. (SoFi) agreed in April …

PayPal Holdings Inc. has made big plays for the physical point of sale before, but on Wednesday the San Jose, Calif.-based company unveiled what could be its biggest strategy yet to capture transactions at the cash register. Top executives said an arrangement under way with CVS Pharmacy to run PayPal …

Five banks linked to The Clearing House Payments Co.’s Real Time Payments (RTP) network on a single day. The five—Dogwood State Bank, First Fidelity Bank, National Bank of Texas, Royal Bank, and Signature Bank—joined through Jack Henry & Associates Inc.’s JHA PayCenter. A Jack Henry executive said the company expects to “onboard …

Visa Inc. reported Tuesday that it managed to make nearly $2.4 billion in its June-ending quarter despite massive hits to its international volumes and credit card spending caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and its chief executive also addressed the latest debit card controversy. Separately, online marketplace eBay Inc. reported its …

U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin and a Vermont Congressman want the Federal Reserve to look into what they say are efforts by debit card issuers “aided by the dominant card networks” to prevent PIN-debit networks from getting a bigger share of booming card-not-present payment volume. “The Federal Reserve should consider appropriate …

Mastercard Inc. is offering some concessions in its bid to win approval from European Union competition authorities for its planned $3.2 billion acquisition of major parts of Denmark-based payment processor Nets Group, Reuters reported.California’s Department of Motor Vehicles selected payments provider Forte Payment Systems to oversee the DMV’s e-check verification process.Digital-banking technology provider Tyfone Inc. has …

Payment processor Paysafe said it has a deal to acquire the gateway Openbucks for an undisclosed price.The Missouri Department of Social Services said it now allows child-support payments via Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal.Mogo Inc., a Canadian fintech, made publicly available MogoSpend, a so-called spending account that comes with a cobranded Visa Platinum prepaid …

The big card networks have been introducing a one-click e-commerce checkout and plan to take it overseas by next year, but now a Ripple Labs Inc. executive may beat them to the punch with a single-click capability for Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency. In what he characterizes as a “personal project,” Ripple director …

Payments provider Citcon USA LLC said early Thursday it is unveiling plugins that will allow e-commerce platforms like Commerce Cloud, Magento, Salesforce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and others to offer merchants the ability to accept Alipay, WeChat Pay, and China UnionPay, as well as credit cards, without coding. The development represents a …

Expanding on an initiative it began April that offered free listings for some merchants, search-engine leader Google on Thursday announced a test that charges zero-percent commissions to online sellers when they sell a product through its Shopping Actions service. In addition, sellers can use Shopify Inc.’s payment service as well …