Near-Field Communication (NFC)

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Tuesday said it is making its new Zettle Terminal available to U.S. merchants generally following a rollout in Europe last year. The $199 device represents the e-commerce payments giant’s latest thrust into physical shops and restaurants and builds on technology acquired when it paid $2.2 billion …

The big payments processor Elavon Inc. has joined the movement to convert mass transit in the United States to contactless technology for fare transactions. The Atlanta-based company on Tuesday launched its Mass Transit Payments platform, aimed at both public and private agencies and with gateway and acquiring services provided by …

Rivalry in the highly competitive restaurant POS systems market got even hotter Monday as PNC Financial Group Inc., announced its acquisition of Linga, a provider of point-of-sale systems for the restaurant and hospitality industry, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will enable PNC to better serve its clients in the …

Apple Inc.’s latest financial product, a buy now, pay later service called Apple Pay Later, has yet to arrive, though the iPhone operating system it was expected to require launched Sept. 12. Why is that? One Bloomberg columnist suggests Apple Pay Later, which was announced in June, may not arrive …

The open-banking platform MX Technologies Inc. has become the latest partner in Dwolla Inc.’s Secure Exchange solution. Through the partnership, which builds on the two companies’ existing relationship, digital-payments fintech Dwolla will be able to offer clients and reseller partners it has in common with MX access to account-verification services …

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the agency will begin to identity potential “interpretive guidance or rules to issue with the goal of ensuring that Buy Now, Pay Later firms adhere to many of the baseline protections that Congress has already established for credit cards.” This …

NewStore Inc., a payments-platform provider specializing in mobile transactions, has become the latest processor to roll out Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone solution to its merchants in the United States. The payment option, which allows merchants to accept Apple Pay and other contactless payments by using an iPhone …

Shift4 Payments Inc., which has built a large client base in the hotel and hospitality market, made a bid for greater share in the highly competitive restaurant POS market Tuesday with the introduction of SkyTab POS, a modular, Android-based software application that combines back-end functionality and point-of-sale capabilities in a …

The NFC Forum, a standards body for companies developing and using near-field communication contactless technology, on Thursday announced a so-called “device class” for wearable devices aimed at increasing the use of such technology. The new Card Emulation Device Class is the first of its kind, the Wakefield, Mass.-based organization said. …

In a bid to strengthen its hand with small businesses, Elavon, the Atlanta-based merchant-acquiring subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, has launched talech Register, a payments and business analytics platform that, Elavon says, enables small business owners to manage their operations more efficiently. Elavon is initially offering two bundled packages for restaurants …