Though not as credit and debit card friendly as some industries, the legalized cannabis industry continues to create opportunities for payments companies. Among the latest developments are the release of POSaBIT Systems Corp.’s latest point-of-sale system and a new program from Organic Payment Gateways. Bellevue, Wash.-based POSaBIT says its POSaBIT …

Hyundai Motor North America has launched Hyundai Pay, an in-car payments app that will enable drivers to find and pay for products and services using stored credit card information and the vehicle’s touchscreen. Hyundai owners will initially be able to use the app to locate, reserve, and pay for parking …

Infinicept, a provider of embedded payments, Tuesday introduced Launchpay, a payment facilitator (Payfac)-as-a-service model for software companies not yet ready to become full-scale payment facilitators. Payment facilitators allow customers to accept electronic payments using their platform through a master merchant account. Examples of Payfacs include Block Inc.’s Square merchant-processing unit …

Debit cards are the most widely used form of payment, while credit cards rank a distant third, a new study from J.D. Power says. Some 78% of consumers use debit cards at the point of sale, followed by cash (74%) and credit cards (66%), according to the survey. Other forms …

Small businesses and unattended-payments merchants are getting some attention from point-of-sale terminal sellers with updates from Elavon and Ingenico. First, Elavon, the acquiring arm of U.S. Bank, launched the talech Terminal, a mobile POS device that complements its talech Register, which debuted in 2022. Talech is a software developer acquired …

ATM owners are charging consumers a record high $3.15 per transaction for making out-of-network withdrawals, up slightly from $3.14 a year ago, according to Bankrate.com. The new high is also the 22nd time in the last 25 years that out-of-network fees levied by ATM owners have hit a new high. …

Sending cash with birthday cards in the mail is risky, but now Hallmark Cards Inc.’s service with Venmo makes it easier and presumably safer. The new Hallmark + Venmo line of cards includes a QR code inside the card that recipients scan to receive the funds to their Venmo accounts. …

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, …

Paysend Group is embarking on a campaign to make its name known among U.S. Hispanic peer-to-peer payments users with an advertising campaign and an offer of fee-free money transfers to Latin America, at least initially. Having opened a U.S. office in 2022, London-based Paysend hopes its advertising campaign, which debuts …

PayNearMe Inc. has added discount-retailer Dollar General and its 19,000 stores to its merchant network. The deal will enable Dollar General customers to pay bills using digitized cash at the checkout counter. The addition of Dollar General, which operates stores in 47 states, brings PayNearMe’s merchant network to more than …