Oil and gas giant BP plc early Monday launched a loyalty app called earnify, which enables BP customers to earn rewards points for fuel and in-store purchases at BP and Amoco locations. App users earn 1 point per $1 spent on fuel and 2 points per $1 spent on other …

Paysafe Ltd. will process transactions for clients of Gaming Innovation Group in North America, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Latin America that have adopted Gaming Innovations’ CoreX player-account management system. Silverblaze, a developer of customer-engagement software for utility companies, will adopt billing and payment technology from Kubra and has joined …

A report from prepaid card platform Blackhawk Network indicates consumers will spend $760 on holiday-season gifting this year, flat with 2023, though they say they will spend 48% of their holiday budget through gift cards, up from 39% last year. The company surveyed 2,000 U.S. consumers in July. Pye, a hospitality point-of-sale …

The battle over the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act has taken a huge new turn. Early Thursday, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office filed a motion with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois’s Eastern Division challenging an Amicus brief from the Office of the Comptroller of …

The Cleveland Browns of the National Football League are expanding their grab-and-go technology to food-and-beverage concessions throughout Huntington Bank Field, the team’s home stadium. The new service, called Express Access, will be available at 12 locations within the stadium, enabling consumers to place orders across the entire facility. Since 2023, …

Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, says more than 125 million credit and debit cards are now available to use with the e-commerce checkout tool as the service taps a new general manager. Also, buy now, pay later specialist Klarna AB has become an Apple Inc. …

CellPoint Digital, a payments-orchestration platform, announced an alliance with PayU GPO, a platform for alternative payment methods operating in more than 50 markets globally. In related news, payments-orchestration platform Transcard said it now supports payments globally through multiple currencies in an effort to smooth payments for financial companies operating worldwide. Duck Creek …

Mastercard Inc. announced early Tuesday it is acquiring Minna Technologies, a provider of subscription-management applications. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will enable consumers to more easily manage, renew, and cancel their subscriptions by providing them a single view of all their subscriptions within their banking apps …

Beginning next summer, PayPal Holdings Inc. will begin sharing more personalized shopper information with merchants, as outlined in its recently updated PayPal Privacy Statement. Data such as products, preferences, sizes, and styles will be shared with merchants to “help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you,” …

One morning, I was checking out at a grocery store when I saw the store manager rush out of her office. “Who has the big gift card purchase?” she asked, hurrying down the row of cash registers. She had gotten a call alerting her to a fraudulent transaction and asking …