Mobile Wallets

As clients of payment gateways turn to them for more than connectivity to multiple processors, choosing a gateway becomes more complex. The 2022 edition of The Strawhecker Group’s Payment Gateway Directory hopes to help with that, even as gateways’ role expands. Payment gateways are a key driver in the payments …

Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB said its service is now included in Viva Wallet, a European payment platform. Klarna says it serves 150 million active users globally, conducting 2 million daily transactions.In the wake of the implosion of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Silvergate Capital Corp. said FTX’s deposits at the bank totaled $11.9 …

Instacart, the online grocery-delivery service and marketplace that employs personal shoppers to shop for consumers—and then facilitates delivery of those orders to the customer’s home—has brought on Adyen Inc. to provide additional payment processing capabilities. The deal will enable Instacart to leverage Adyen’s platform for payments including, PINless debit. Instacart …

Few merchant markets are more competitive these days than hospitality, particularly restaurants, a state of affairs that only gained intensity with the onset of the pandemic. But at the same time, the drive among eateries to install modern payment-processing technology has lent impetus to many point-of-sale technology providers and processors …

Former FIS Inc. executive Bruce Lowthers took over as chief executive of Paysafe Ltd. in May, and since then he’s had to work to steady a stumbling processing giant. His early assessment of his new company wasn’t pretty. “Bluntly, we’ve lost our way here,” he told equity analysts in August. …

Overall consumer spending per household moderated in October compared to September, up 2.9% year-over-year vs. 3.2%, according to a study from Bank of America Institute. Still, total transactions for the bank—cards, ACH, wires, bill pay, P2P, cash, and checks—increased 9%. Payments provider Green Dot Corp. reported consolidated gross dollar volume of $18.7 billion …

The tech giant Oracle Corp. early this summer launched a cloud-based payments-processing service aimed at the hotly contested restaurant market, and early on Wednesday the company added a handheld device for servers to use tableside. The new terminal, dubbed the Oracle Micros Simphony mobile order and pay device, runs on …

California grocer Ralphs has begun accepting Apple Pay in its 184 locations in the state, reported MacRumors.com, citing a company spokesperson. Ralphs is part of the Kroger Co., which Digital Transactions News reported in 2020 was testing contactless payments at some of its locations. Kroger launched its proprietary mobile-payments service Kroger Pay in 2019, but has …

Consumers are projected to be shopping more online this holiday shopping season, compared to the same period a year ago. Data released Tuesday by payments-technology provider ACI Worldwide Inc. projects a 15% increase in e-commerce transactions from October through December, compared to the same period in 2021. The projected increase …

Thomas Warsop is taking over as chief executive of payments-technology provider ACI Worldwide Inc., succeeding Odilon Almeida, who is stepping down after serving in that role since March 2020. Warsop formerly was non-executive chair of the board of directors and is being succeeded in that role by board member Adalio Sanchez. Dow …