Celero Commerce announced late Wednesday it has acquired Finical Holdings LLC for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, which is the tenth Celero has made since its launch in late 2018, will increase the company’s annual card processing volume to $25 billion and enlarge its presence in the Southwestern U.S. market, …

An agreement between processor Fiserv Inc. and open-banking platform Plaid will allow consumers who use any of Fiserv’s 3,000 client banks to share financial information with third-party apps and services. Discover Financial Services’ Discover Global Network launched a cloud-based version of its stored payment tokens service. Tokens are digital replacements for actual card credentials. …

Paze, an online wallet still in development, will be available to merchants using GoDaddy Inc.’s Web services. Paze is available for testing to select U.S. businesses on the GoDaddy platform. In March, at the announcement of Paze, Early Warning Services LLC, its developer, said full availability would arrive this autumn, …

One of the first forecasts for the upcoming 2023 holiday shopping period predicts that mobile devices will overtake desktop ones for e-commerce for the first time. Adobe Inc., in its Nov. 1-to-Dec. 31 holiday-shopping forecast, released Thursday, forecasts that U.S. online holiday sales will reach $221.8 billion, a 4.8% increase …

Location-technology vendor Mapbox launched MapGPT, an automobile-based voice assistant incorporating generative artificial intelligence. Among its features is an ability to process payments, starting in Japan with that country’s PayPay app. Stop & Shop and Food Lion have adopted a mobile shopping app from Peapod Digital Labs, an e-commerce technology developer for Ahold Delhaize …

Payments-technology platform Pidgin said it has agreed to provide real-time payments capability to retail and commercial account holders at Exchange Bank. AffiniPay LLC, a payments platform for professional-services firms, has sold its accounting-software unit, Soluno, to ActionStep, a provider of practice-management technology. Terms were not disclosed. The U.S.-based blockchain firm Coinbase Inc. announced it …

Now that FedNow is available, the real work begins. But will the new system compete or collaborate with existing real-time networks? FedNow, the real-time payments service from the Federal Reserve, launched with 35 participating institutions on July 20, almost 13 years after the Fed’s same-day automated clearing house settlement window …

Credit card interchange has come under assault, and not for the first time. Now, though, the stakes are higher than ever. The cleverly crafted “Credit Card Competition Act of 2023” from Sens. Durbin, Marshall, Welch, and Vance is the latest salvo in a forever war against payments-industry fees, including how …

Embedded payments are quickly becoming table stakes as developers look to expand their reach to merchants and small businesses. It’s no wonder embedded payments are quickly moving into the mainstream. After all, small and mid-size businesses are increasingly looking to deliver better and better experiences for for customers within their …

The world of global payments is undergoing major changes as new technologies and players enter the payment space. While banks and financial institutions have historically dominated international payments, we are seeing new innovations and non-traditional competitors redefine how money moves across the globe. In recent years, the entire payments chain …