When the pandemic ends, demand for parking places is likely to skyrocket. That augurs well for apps that find just the right spot—and let you pay for it. “There’s an app for that” has become a cliché, but most users and experts agree mobile apps have drained the difficulty and …

Amazon’s latest technology has the contactless trend on its side, but experts question its mainstream usefulness. Amazon.com Inc.’s culture is rooted in three primary principles: Don’t be afraid to take risks; find new ways to engage with customers; and imagine what consumers want before they do. Those principles have helped …

With the Covid-19 pandemic surging across most of the United States, sports and entertainment venue operators are looking for ways to convert cash transactions to cashless payments. In response, Atlanta-based InComm Payments on Wednesday announced the Jacksonville Jaguars organization of the National Football League is allowing consumers to exchange cash …

Discover Financial Services reported its payment-services volume totaled $69.7 billion in the third quarter, up 11% year-over-year. Volume on the Pulse debit network increased 16% to $55 billion owing to larger average spending due to the pandemic and to the lift from stimulus funds.Payments provider PaymentCloud Inc. said it acquired contactless technology startup …

With cash on the outs with many pandemic-wary consumers and merchants these days, payments firms are looking for alternatives. One such option is a so-called reverse ATM, a machine that takes in cash instead of dispensing it to allow users to convert paper money into an electronic payment instrument. An …

Amazon.com Inc.’s venture in letting consumers pay with the palm of their hand officially launched Tuesday at two Amazon Go stores. But the retailing giant’s latest payment technology could face an uncertain future even as stores struggle with how to introduce contactless methods in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. …

Shift4 Payments dazzled the payments industry and Wall Street with its June initial public offering. What do recent processor IPOs say about the prospects for payments companies? No investment in the stock market is a sure winner, but payments investments often prove to be better than others. On June 4, …

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a fearful toll on payments processing, and on Thursday, in its first earnings call as a publicly held company, Shift4 Payments Inc. proved it’s no exception. Stay-at-home orders and business shutdowns, with tentative reopenings, clipped the company’s full-service, lucrative end-to-end payment volume in the June quarter …

Shift4 Payments Inc. is scheduled to have its first quarterly earnings call as a publicly held company on Thursday. Ahead of that call, company founder and chief executive Jared Isaacman is expressing satisfaction with the merchant acquirer’s June 4 initial public offering.  The oversubscribed IPO was priced at $23 per share, …

Payments-technology provider Galileo Financial Technologies LLC announced an integration with data aggregator Plaid Inc. Through Plaid’s links to financial institutions, the tie-in will allow Galileo clients to more readily authorize users for automated clearing house transactions. Visa Inc. announced in January a deal to acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. Social Finance Inc. (SoFi) agreed in April …