Mobile Wallets

Online volume has soared for Klarna AB but the Swedish payments company’s efforts to go into physical stores are also bearing fruit, the company reported early Thursday. Klarna, which offers consumers the opportunity at checkout to extend payments over time, reported its “in-store proposition” is now active in 10 geographic …

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 …

Money transfer specialist Remitly Inc. says its mobile wallet now reaches 300 million consumers, while MoneyGram International Inc. says its deal with Thunes will add services in Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Seattle-based Remitly says consumers can now send funds through more than 24 mobile-wallet brands, many of which it …

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 …

The Covid-19 pandemic has hastened merchants’ conversion to digital wallets and other forms of contactless payments, but at the same time the imperative for fast, if possible single-click, ordering has only grown more urgent. In the latest development, the Panera Bread chain announced Tuesday in integration with Google that allows …

With underbanked consumers and gig workers looking for financial products to help them track spending, create savings, and manage debt, many financial-technology companies are layering debit products onto their core application to attract and retain customers. A driving force behind fintechs’ growing fondness for debit is that it is a …

Payments are expected to play a significant role in the economic recovery that will take place as the Covid-19 pandemic eases, says a new report from Boston-based Aite Group. The ways payments can help jump-start the economic recovery include reducing friction at the point-of-sale, increasing payment access, and integrating the …

The use cases for contactless payments have been there all along, but the Covid-19 pandemic is turning out to be a major motivator in adoption of the touch-averse technology. Evidence comes in a roundup of data from the U.S. Payments Forum, a Princeton Junction, N.J.-based payments association. In its latest …