E-Commerce

The U.S. Faster Payments Council released its “Faster Payments and Financial Inclusion” survey report that found that 35% of respondents did not have a faster payments integration but planned to do so. The survey canvassed 88 organizations. Technology firm EvonSys Inc. launched its Evonsys Payments Platform for cross-border transfers. The new service integrates capabilities …

Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Holdings Inc. has expanded its payment options to include Pay in 2 and Pay in 30. The new BNPL options are intended to provide consumers with more flexibility in budgeting their monthly income, the company says. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows …

Banks and credit card companies have launched online services and mobile apps over the years to reinforce ties to their most valuable customers and win new ones. But, in Canada at least, that effort is hitting a brick wall, a series of new reports from J.D. Power indicates. While Canadian …

Toast Inc., a provider of pay-at-table payments devices for the hospitality market, reported data derived from 112,000 restaurant locations in its Q1 2024 Restaurant Trends Report. Among the results: Tipping is most generous in Delaware, where it averages 22.1% of the bill. Mastercard Inc. said it is integrating Deposit Switch and …

EBay Inc.’s decision to stop accepting American Express cards effective Aug. 17 is generating big headlines, but some payments-industry experts question whether the decision is really a tactic to negotiate a lower interchange rate from the travel-and-entertainment card giant, given that eBay says it won’t stop accepting AmEx for about …

Italian fashion house Prada is adopting omnichannel payments technology from Adyen NV in a bid to build a single financial technology platform across all its retail channels. Tap to Pay on iPhone in Prada’s U.S. locations and its Milan store is a centerpiece of the partnership, Adyen says, and potentially …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it has settled on a process by which companies can comply with an upcoming personal financial data rights rule related to open banking. Cloud-based phone-service provider Ooma Inc. announced an integration with Square, the point-of-sale unit of Block Inc., to incorporate Square transaction data into business communications …

Visa Inc. says the 10 billion tokens it’s issued since 2014 are just the tipping point, as it expects Visa’s tokenized transactions to grow exponentially over the next several years. Visa announced the 10-billion milestone Tuesday. As of April, 29% of all transactions processed by Visa used tokens. Tokenization uses …

Shift4 Payments Inc. confirmed early Monday it has reached an agreement to acquire the German point-of-sale technology company Vectron Systems AG at a price of 10.5 euros, or $11.42, per share. The offer represents a 50% premium to Vectron’s current share price, according to early reports. Information was not immediately …

Open-banking technology provider Plaid Inc. is pairing-up with The Western Union Co. to bring its account-verification services to the wire-transfer giant’s European customers. Under the so-called collaboration San Francisco-based Plaid announced Thursday, Western Union will be able to tap Plaid’s open-banking system for account verification, thereby simplifying remittances and digital …