The big processor Fiserv Inc. said Wednesday morning it will offer so-called programmable payments to its financial-institution clients through a partnership with IncumbentFI, a San Francisco-based technology provider. The technology allows cardholders to attach a variety of funding sources to a single card and choose one for individual transactions. In …

Consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics is looking to expand to 13 new markets for its Samsung Wallet service. Announced Friday, the expansion of the digital-wallet platform will more than double its presence from the eight nations where it is already available. Samsung Wallet is the new brand for the combined …

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Tuesday said it is making its new Zettle Terminal available to U.S. merchants generally following a rollout in Europe last year. The $199 device represents the e-commerce payments giant’s latest thrust into physical shops and restaurants and builds on technology acquired when it paid $2.2 billion …

Electronic Verification Systems, a provider of identity- and age-verification solutions, early Monday announced the launch of AssurePay, a credit card-verification platform that EVS says authenticates consumer credit card information at the beginning of the payment process, instead of while the card data is being held for processing. To validate a …

More merchants have begun accepting cryptocurrency, and processors say there’s others to come. Good luck with that, say skeptics. A dozen years after the emergence of Bitcoin, widespread merchant acceptance of digital currency remains more a vision than a reality. Most merchants that do accept cryptocurrency insist on converting it …

The big payments processor Elavon Inc. has joined the movement to convert mass transit in the United States to contactless technology for fare transactions. The Atlanta-based company on Tuesday launched its Mass Transit Payments platform, aimed at both public and private agencies and with gateway and acquiring services provided by …

Virtual payment cards have been around for more than a decade, but now they appear to be poised for big growth with the rise of e-commerce and the wide availability of digital wallets. Indeed, the volume of transactions arising from these cards will balloon from 28 billion worldwide this year …

Long anticipated, a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers suggestions on how regulation might aid the buy now, pay later industry, but doesn’t recommend a wholesale review of its practices. Among the risks outlined in the “Buy Now, Pay Later: Market trends and consumer impacts” report, released Thursday, are …

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the agency will begin to identity potential “interpretive guidance or rules to issue with the goal of ensuring that Buy Now, Pay Later firms adhere to many of the baseline protections that Congress has already established for credit cards.” This …

The trend toward cashless sports stadiums continues to roll like a juggernaut. ASM Global, a provider of convention-venue management and event strategy and producer of entertainment events, is installing more than 1,000 point-of-sale devices from Fiserv Inc.’s Clover Sport unit across three New Orleans sports and entertainment venues. The three …