Mobile Wallets

Automaker Mercedes-Benz is enabling in-car fuel payments for users of its Mercedes pay+ service. Announced Monday, the service also integrates Mastercard Inc.’s Secure Card on File for Commerce Platform technology. Available initially only on select Mercedes models in Germany, the fuel payment app joins a parking-payment app the giant carmaker …

North American Bancard has joined a growing list of processors offering Tap to Pay on iPhone or its Android-based equivalent to merchants for contactless transactions. A big advantage of Tap to Pay on iPhone, especially for small and micro-merchants, is that it enables them to accept in-person contactless payments on …

Most bankers know that today’s payments are broken. From keeping pace with evolving customer experiences, to navigating the changing regulatory environment, to overcoming competitive threats from nonbanks, many have become so frustrated they are debating whether to abandon some in-house payments channels entirely. Consumers, too, are becoming frustrated with the …

Innovative Payment Solutions Inc. announced it has completed the second of three $500,000 capital contributions to IPSIPay Express LLC, a joint venture aimed at processing digital payments in the sports-betting and online-gaming markets. Partnering with IPSI in the venture are OpenPath and eFinityPay. Reports indicate a security breach at T-Mobile exposed sensitive data, …

The unexpected announcement late Monday that Square chief executive Alyssa Henry is leaving the company and being replaced by founder Jack Dorsey raises tough questions about how the strategy and direction of the huge point-of-sale payments company might change, experts say. Dorsey, a key founder of what was then called …

Zebra Technologies Corp. has entered the highly competitive mobile-payments market with the introduction of Zebra Pay, a software-based, PIN entry, consumer off-the-shelf mobile payment solution for merchants. With solutions like Zebra Pay, the cardholder’s PIN is entered on an acquirer’s app running on the mobile device, while the card is …

Stripe Inc. early Monday launched a series of enhancements aimed at improving checkouts for merchants. The new features—which include one-click checkouts and a no-code A/B testing tool for businesses to evaluate how different payment methods perform—rely on pre-built user interfaces. This should allow merchants to quickly deploy the new features, …

The federal court overseeing a $5.54-billion settlement between millions of card-accepting merchants, on one hand, and Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., on the other, over interchange costs recently took several steps that ultimately could get payments out to merchants. But checks still won’t be in the mail for some time. …

Amazon.com late Thursday unveiled Buy with Prime cart, a new feature of the e-commerce giant’s Buy With Prime benefit intended to increase order sizes. Buy With Prime users can now place multiple items in their shopping cart, whereas they were previously limited to a single item per order, Amazon says. …

Airlines Reporting Corp. announced it has started processing payments through its ARC Pay application programming interface for the online travel agency Business Travel Group LLC’s Business Class brand. The Western Union Co. announced it will offer free money transfers for funds consumers around the world send to Libya in the wake of severe …