Mobile Wallets

Responding to allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and Florida’s attorney general that it used multiple techniques to prevent consumers from winning chargeback disputes, chargeback-management company Chargebacks911 on Friday released a statement saying the charges are unfounded. The FTC and Florida attorney general Ashley Moody sued Chargebacks911 on Wednesday alleging …

Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Inc. said it is extending to Canada its processing agreement with payments platform Stripe Inc. Payments fintech Alacriti said it will provide identity verification for real-time payments through fraud-solutions provider Socure. Payments-technology provider Central Payments renewed an agreement with Galileo Financial Technologies LLC to process for Central’s Open*CP Fintech API …

The payments industry continues to reckon with the myriad ways the pandemic has permanently reshaped how people pay businesses and other people. One key example is how individuals are paying each other compared to just a couple of years ago, and how payment networks are responding. In just the two …

Even if Walmart Inc. is successful in terminating its contract with Capital One Financial Corp. to issue private-label and co-branded cards on the retail behemoth’s behalf, the loss is not likely to have a major impact on Capital One’s business, says a research note from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. The …

Consumers have been returning to physical stores as the pandemic wanes, and that’s spurring point-of-sale technology providers to bring fresh products to market. The latest example is Verfone Inc., which said Tuesday it is rolling out a panoply of new devices and services for the highly competitive petroleum and convenience-store …

Ordering ahead for a Domino’s pizza from your car just became a little easier for iPhone users with the release Monday of an order-ahead app for CarPlay, the in-car infotainment app from Apple Inc. The Domino’s Pizza Inc. app now enables consumers to Tap to Order or Call to Order …

Payments provide Praxis Tech Ltd. has introduced a service it calls Merchant Initiated Transactions, which allows sellers to leverage a card-on-file option to initiate single-click payments on behalf of customers. GoDaddy Inc., a provider of payments and other services for small business, has released a small-business generative AI prompt library, which offers …

Digital-payments platform Kasheesh, which allows consumers to split purchases between debit, credit, and prepaid cards for online purchases, has introduced a one-time-use Visa card to its mobile wallet that can be used at physical stores. The feature, called Mobile Wallet Dashboard, allows users to add their Kasheesh account to their …

While Stripe Inc. did not experience what it terms the “breakneck” growth it enjoyed in 2020 and 2021, the e-commerce payments giant still processed more than $817 billion in total volume in 2022, up 26% from the previous year, the financial services and software-as-a-service company told customers in its annual …

In a major case whose effects could ripple widely across the payments industry, Block Inc. has sued Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., alleging the global networks worked together to fix interchange fees paid by Block’s Square operation. Square, which processes card transactions for millions of mostly small sellers, pays interchange …