Pressure may be building on the Federal Reserve to take action on a debit card interchange-fee regulation that it has left intact for 10 years despite sweeping changes in the payments business, including an onrush of e-commerce transactions over the past year. In part, observers are reacting to a report …

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Payments provider Nuvei Corp. announced an agreement to acquire SimplexCC Ltd., whose technology enables market participants to buy or sell cryptocurrencies. The $250-million deal is expected to close in the second half of the year and comes on the heels of Nuvei’s agreement to acquire sports-betting technology specialist Mazooma Technical Services Inc. for $56 …

Square Inc. continues to build out delivery services for its Square Online platform with the addition of liquor delivery. Merchants using Square Online that sell liquor can offer customers the option to purchase alcohol from the store’s Web site and have the order fulfilled through Square’s delivery partner DoorDash Inc. …

Merchants have complained for years that they pay too much for debit card acceptance. Late last week, they took their beef to the federal courts with a lawsuit alleging a ceiling set on debit card fees a decade ago by the Federal Reserve is too high and seeking to have …

Most merchants can’t afford Amazon Go technology. But that doesn’t mean it’s out of reach. It’s the end of a long day at the office, and you swing into a pharmacy on the way home to pick up toothpaste. You’re not out yet, just running low and being proactive. You …

Stablecoins in particular hold significant promise for such functions as cross-border payments. But banks will need to make important adjustments. Innovation in the payments space is occurring at an astonishing rate, with new technology capabilities enabling huge strides to be made in enhancing speed, transparency, and efficiency in transaction processing. …

It’s May, and that means it’s time for our annual exercise to seek out and describe the nonbank players, apart from the big networks, that are rewriting the rules for the digital exchange of value. Since 2004, Digital Transactions has traced the course of payments innovation through its nimblest practitioners—the …

Challenged in the past year, merchants are readying for major point-of-sale hardware and software upgrades to adapt to new consumer expectations. Some merchants have had to delay much-needed point-of-sale system upgrades. Others are adding them to stay afloat in the immediate moment. And still others are incorporating make-shift steps to …

Seven and one-half billion dollars in ransomware payments per year is the U.S. cost for upholding the tantalizing idea of Bitcoin, and that is but a fraction of the multifaceted criminal activity that owes its surge to a coin that builds trust on ignorance and awe. Pillars of the U.S. …