North American Bancard has joined a growing list of processors offering Tap to Pay on iPhone or its Android-based equivalent to merchants for contactless transactions. A big advantage of Tap to Pay on iPhone, especially for small and micro-merchants, is that it enables them to accept in-person contactless payments on …

Add Sephora, a beauty retailer, to the list of merchants adopting iPhones as payment-acceptance devices in the Tap to Pay on iPhone program. J.P. Morgan Payments says Sephora is its first such retailer to adopt the contactless-payment service, which does not require special hardware to complete a transaction. Announced Tuesday, …

Community financial institution Five Star Bank launched tap-to-pay on iPhone capability for its business clients, allowing merchants to accept contactless payments directly on their iPhones. Fluency, a provider of technology for central bank digital currencies, said it has been selected by Mastercard Inc. to work with the card network on CBDC initiatives. Payments provider Novo …

A handful of U.S. retail outlets owned by luxury-goods retailer LVMH Group will offer Tap to Pay on iPhone later this year, the Paris-based company announced Wednesday. Tap to Pay on iPhone enables merchants to accept contactless payments using a payment-acceptance app and an off-the-shelf iPhone. The service, announced in …

Web registrar GoDaddy Inc. continued its push into payments Monday by adding Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone to the GoDaddy Mobile App. The inclusion of Tap to Pay on the GoDaddy app will enable small businesses to accept contactless payments on an iPhone without a dongle. Merchants need …