Point-of-sale installment lender Afterpay Ltd. has agreed to provide its buy now, pay later service to customers of Gap Inc., including its Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta brands. Afterpay’s buy now, pay later service enables consumers to make four interest-free installment payments. The retailer is paid in full, …

Research from Inmar Intelligence found that 53% of shoppers used a mobile contactless payment option for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Additionally, most—55%—of the 1,000 respondents surveyed said they have been avoiding using cash in general in the same period. A full 28% will avoid retailers not offering …

Purewrist, a provider of contactless transaction technology, announced Tuesday its Purewrist GO wearable bracelet will go live on card issuer and processor i2c Inc.’s platform. Purewrist chose i2c as its payment processor because of i2c’s global footprint and its platform’s support for devices that enable contactless and mobile transactions, says …

Walmart Inc. will start next spring allowing customers in Canada to pay with debit in-app and in-browser using wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay, the Canadian national payments network Interac announced Tuesday. Interac positions the new service as enabling so-called proprietary wallets, which it confirmed includes the apps from …

Lightspeed POS Inc. on Thursday acquired ShopKeep Inc., a payments and commerce provider, for $440 million in cash and stock. Under the terms of the deal, Lightspeed will pay $145.2 million in cash and issue 9.5 million subordinate voting shares. The deal is expected to close by Dec. 31. RBC …

Criminals are prepping to reap ill-gotten gains this holiday season, and one way they’re doing that is by bringing their organizational skills to return and refund schemes. That’s the word from Signifyd Inc., a fraud-prevention services provider. Return and refund fraud is one of three trends gaining prominence now, says …

As consumers adopt real-time payments in the coming years, payments providers are expecting businesses large and small to follow suit. News released Monday indicates preparations are already under way. Canadian processor Everlink Payments Services Inc. and Fintainium Inc., a Jacksonville, Fla.-based developer of cloud-based technologies for financial institutions, have agreed …

The pandemic is changing payments, but it’s also reworking payments strategies. Here’s how the industry will have to react in the next few years. Covid-19 has dramatically transformed daily life in many ways all too familiar by this point. While we know that the pandemic will end, the timing is …

Each year, Digital Transactions uses this space to lay out the problems impacting the payments industry. This time, the Covid-19 pandemic has inflected our coverage across a wide range of issues. The solutions will have to be far from business as usual. 2020 has been one of those years you …

Yes, consumer usage has grown since Covid-19 set in, but a lack of coordination among industry players has led to confusion at the point of sale. Contactless chip-enabled cards that allow consumers to simply wave their plastic in front of a similarly enabled merchant terminal to complete a purchase without …