Mobile Wallets

Payments and commerce platform Nayax Ltd. is tapping the cloud to enable its EV CloudPay service designed for payments at electric-vehicle charging stations. Announced Monday, EV CloudPay enables motorists to pay for EV charging with a credit card, debit card, or mobile wallet via a physical payment-processing kiosk at charging …

Contactless payments are forecasted to surge 113% in value by 2029, reaching $15.7 trillion by 2029, up from $7.4 trillion this year, predicts a new report from Juniper Research. Ticketing and soft point-of-sale applications will be significant drivers of this growth, United Kingdom-based Juniper says. “As access becomes more widespread, …

Paze, the online checkout platform backed by some of the nation’s biggest banks, is barreling through a state-by-state rollout that could culminate in nationwide coverage by late summer or early fall, according to James Anderson, the platform’s general manager who has spearheaded the project since Early Warning Services LLC announced …

Samsung Next has invested an undisclosed sum in Curve UK Ltd, developer of a U.K.-based digital wallet, bringing Curve’s total raised funds to more than $250 million. ECS Fin, a developer of payment-processing technology, said Zenus Bank has adopted its IMS Payments capability to integrate Visa B2B Connect, a platform for …

Delta Air Lines Inc. is adopting Tap to Pay on iPhone for its U.S. flights, a move made in conjunction with processor Elavon Inc. Delta has long accepted card payments on flights, having adopted a card-only policy in 2009 for North America flights, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported then. The move …

Shareholders in Nuvei Corp. approved the processor’s previously announced agreement to be acquired by Advent International LP for $34 per share in a move that will take the big processor private. The Financial Times reported that regulators in the European Union have accepted concessions from Apple Inc. that will allow competing payment platforms to access the …

Apple Pay Later, the buy now, pay later product from Apple Inc. released just over a year ago, is shutting down. The move comes after installment-payment specialist Affirm Inc. confirmed it would be part of Apple Wallet when the tech giant’s annual software updates for iPhones and computers emerge this …

U.S.-based payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. said its partnership with Stet, a Paris-based clearing and settlement system, processed more than 50 million real-time cross-border payments in the past 12 months. The companies expect that volume to grow more than 50% in the current year. Cross-border payments specialist Nium Pte. Ltd. said it is working …

Yardi Systems Inc. a provider of property-management software, announced integrations with two rent-payment platforms, Best Egg and Flex, in a move that the company says will enable tenants with a direct payment option through Yardi’s service. Online bill pay provider doxo Inc. launched the Cost of Bills Index, which is based on doxo’s …

EBay Inc. is recruiting Venmo as a payment option, the big e-commerce marketplace announced early Thursday. The move, which comes about a week after eBay announced it will no longer accept American Express cards effective Aug. 17, is part of a strategy to add alternative payment options that appeal to …