The pressure at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to exit, or at least radically modify, its consumer-credit and payments businesses has been mounting and may have hit its summit. At least some executives at the company are pushing senior management to exit credit card deals with Apple Inc. and General Motors …

The pressure at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to exit, or at least radically modify, its consumer-credit and payments businesses appears to be mounting. At least some executives at the company are pushing senior management to exit credit card deals with Apple Inc. and General Motors Corp., The Wall Street Journal …

Almost a year after vowing to make its PayPal- and Venmo-branded credit and debit cards available in Apple Wallet, PayPal Holdings Inc. has come through on that promise. With the move, announced Wednesday, eligible PayPal and Venmo cards can be added to Apple Wallet by tapping the “Add Debit or …

The Fed’s new real-time payments platform will pose challenges for risk management. Here’s how to cope with that. The U.S. Federal Reserve made its FedNow instant-payments service live in July. It enables a faster flow of cash for companies and individuals, improving the overall flow of money through the U.S. …

Here’s why more merchants and service providers are starting to embrace embedded finance. This year marks the 25th anniversary of PayPal. While e-commerce existed in some form as early as 1979 (once any new technology arises, it’s not long before someone monetizes it), PayPal changed the game for small- and …

U.S.-based network-management company Transaction Network Services said its technology will manage connectivity for Spain-based Euro Automatic Cash, a network of 1,500 ATMs. Tiptap, a donation platform, said it will enable Visa member financial institutions to offer customers a platform to make small donations to community charities while they are performing routine banking …

Shift4 Payments Inc. announced Thursday it is integrating Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out technology into its VenueNext application for sports stadiums and other arenas. The big payments processor says it will introduce the checkout system at the United Center in Chicago, a venue where Shift4 already provides processing for purchases …

The Federal Reserve issued a set of market practices, or a kind of blueprint, as part of an effort to introduce standards for a request for payment function for bill pay on the regulator’s FedNow real-time payments service, which launched nationwide in July. Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit launched Tap to Pay on Android …

MoneyGram International Inc. announced Tuesday it will launch in the first quarter next year a non-custodial digital wallet that will support stablecoins. The wallet’s support of stablecoins—digital currency tied to the value of a national fiat currency, such as the dollar— will enable consumers to move from fiat currency to …

Varo Bank entered the peer-to-peer payments fray with Varo to Anyone, which allows Varo accountholders to send funds to anyone who holds a U.S. debit card. Varo says the service carries no fee. Mitek Systems Inc. announced it has agreed to offer its biometric-based identity verification technology to complement the credit-reporting agency Equifax Inc.’s …