Block Inc.’s top management late Thursday said the company’s focus for the remainder of the calendar year is on enhancing its go-to-market strategy. That means improving sales, boosting partnerships, sharpening marketing, and product innovation, Block chief executive Jack Dorsey said during the company’s 2024 second-quarter earnings call. Dorsey lost no …

When Alex Chriss took over in September as PayPal’s chief executive, he promised to shake up what he saw as a complacent payments engine. Now, the company is starting to see some tangible results from Chriss’s moves, though the new boss isn’t entirely satisfied. “We know there is much more …

Stripe Inc. has partnered with Newline by Fifth Third, a provider of embedded payments from Fifth Third Bank, to expand embedded financial services for Stripe’s platform users and their customers. Newline by Fifth Third’s API-based platform allows businesses to launch and scale payment, card, and deposit products directly with Fifth …

Financial technology provider Kasheesh Inc. on Thursday launched a virtual card that allows consumers to split payments for online purchases across up to five existing credit, debit, and prepaid cards. The card is intended to provide an alternative to buy now, pay later loans.  The Mastercard-branded card can be loaded …

U.S.-based Papaya Global, which offers platforms for payroll and payments processing, said it will support payroll and other workforce software for Cegid, a Europe-based provider of cloud software for finance and human resources. American Express Co. announced updates to its U.S. Consumer Gold Card, including credits for spending at restaurants included in …

Growth in contactless and peer-to-peer payments, e-commerce, and value-added services were among the highlights discussed with stock analysts late Tuesday during Visa Inc.’s third-quarter earnings call for the card company’s fiscal year 2024. Visa’s Tap-to-Pay contactless payments technology has penetrated multiple markets, accounting for 80% of all face-to-face Visa transactions …

Demand for digital-payment and embedded-finance technology is growing in the United States, especially among Gen Z and Millennials, says a report from payments platform Marqeta Inc. The demand is being driven largely by the lower adoption of contactless payments and mobile-banking apps in the U.S. compared to the United Kingdom …

Point-of-sale and payments software provider Sound Payments said it completed an integration with two Equinox Payments POS terminals in Sound’s Quantum Cloud platform. Blaze Solutions Inc., a provider of technology for cannabis sellers, has released new point-of-sale technology for that market, featuring a Web-based POS system and upgraded user interface. A startup …

Same-day pay for hourly workers is not only top-of-mind for employees, but many employers—73% in a new Onbe survey—think so, too, enough for many to begin planning for it. Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based corporate payouts platform Onbe says that is one finding from its 2024 Same Day Pay Survey. Released Monday, …

July 20 marks the one-year anniversary of the debut of FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s real-time payment service. It also marks the anniversary of the payments industry letting its breath out in anticipation of the launch. Since then, both FedNow and its fellow faster payments providers have all benefited from the …