MyKaarma, a payments service for automobile dealers, said its surcharge service, myKaarma Surcharge, has achieved compliance with Honest Pricing Laws that have been enacted in several states, including California and New York. Surcharging allows merchants to add their cost of credit card acceptance to a bill when a customer presents a credit …

Chase emailed its cardholders Friday that it will soon offer Paze, a new online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, and that eligible Chase credit and debit cards will be linked to Paze. The bank will notify cardholders when Paze is ready for use. Chase also provided the option to opt …

Visa Inc. announced early Thursday it will launch account-to-account (A2A) payment capabilities in the United Kingdom in early 2025. The move will allow U.K. consumers paying bills to do so directly from their bank account, as opposed to paying by check, cash, or card. Visa’s plans for the service, called …

American Express Co. said fintech Knot is testing a new feature that enables select AmEx cardholders to add their payment information at participating merchants, including Bloomingdale’s, Hilton, and Macy’s. With Knot, AmEx can enable its customers to update card-on-file information instantly, AmEx said, using Knot’s CardSwitcher technology and proprietary AmEx tech. …

U.S. Bank said it is launching two new products, the Smartly Visa Signature card and the Smartly Savings account. The former offers as much as 4% cash back on transactions. Some 48% of consumers in the U.S. market are using digital wallets for payments, up from 38% in 2021, according to …

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. has partnered with payment processor Moov Financial Inc. to enable financial institutions to offer small and medium-size businesses enhanced digital-payment services. The partnership is expected to help financial institutions attract more smaller businesses as clients and strengthen existing relationships with such sellers by providing for …

The Small Business Index from the big processor Fiserv Inc. stood at 141 in August, with no change from July. Year-over-year, small-business sales were up 1.6%, while total transactions grew 5.7%, according to the Index. The research is based on in-store and online transaction data from roughly 2 million U.S. small businesses, …

Keys Inc., a technology platform for locksmiths, has launched the Keys Visa Spend Card, issued by Celtic Bank. The card allows locksmiths to receive earnings instantly, with processing by Stripe Inc. Payments-technology provider Transcard said it worked with the University of Tennessee Athletics Department to gain naming rights for and launch the …

Mastercard Inc. launched its Payment Passkey Service with payments processors and consumers in India, and says it will introduce the technology in other markets globally in coming months. The technology, aimed at online transactions, tokenizes payment credentials and enables biometric authentication of cardholders. Canada-based online travel agency justfly.com introduced a pay-by-bank feature, allowing travelers to …

Vanco, a payments-technology provider to more than 3,000 schools, said it is expanding its partnership with Frontline Education, a developer of administrative software for educational institutions, to include Vanco’s RevTrak payments platform, which the company says eases school fees and other payments for families. Adyen NV will process transactions for Aghanim, …