Citcon USA LLC, an e-commerce wallet-technology provider, is adding Block Inc.’s Cash App Pay and Afterpay buy now, pay later payment methods to its inventory of merchant options. In related news, Block’s Square point-of-sale unit is bolstering merchant selling tools with new online features. Citcon’s integration of Cash App Pay, …

FlexPoint announced its launch as a payments platform for so-called managed-service providers, or organizations that provide information-technology services to companies. Flexpoint also announced a long-term financing program for clients through GreatAmerica Financial Services. Automaker Mitsubishi Electric said it has enlisted BlackBerry Ltd. to supply in-vehicle data services, including digital payments. Commerce-technology provider Treez launched new payments …

By Tom Byrnes, SVP, Marketing, PayiQ The current ISV market is growing exponentially and is expected to show a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.1% from 2022 – 2030. This growing scope of opportunity has attracted new players into the market. According to recent research by the Retail Solutions …

Supporters and U.S. Senate sponsors of the Credit Card Competition Act stepped up pressure to pass the bill Wednesday with a Washington press conference featuring Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.). The legislators attacked merchants’ card-transaction costs as price gouging and said the levies make …

Square, Block Inc.’s merchant-processing unit, announced Wednesday it has partnered with e-commerce technology provider Jane Technologies Inc. to process online payments for cannabis dispensaries in Canada serviced by Jane. Square will initially begin processing for dispensaries in Ontario, Canada, through its Early Access Program. That will allow dispensaries in the …

Zebra Technologies Corp. has entered the highly competitive mobile-payments market with the introduction of Zebra Pay, a software-based, PIN entry, consumer off-the-shelf mobile payment solution for merchants. With solutions like Zebra Pay, the cardholder’s PIN is entered on an acquirer’s app running on the mobile device, while the card is …

ACI Worldwide Inc. said it will work with Microsoft Corp. to make its Real-Time Payments Cloud available in Microsoft Azure, enabling financial institutions access to The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s Real Time Payments network and the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments service. Treasury Prime, an embedded-banking technology provider, said it …

Stripe Inc. early Monday launched a series of enhancements aimed at improving checkouts for merchants. The new features—which include one-click checkouts and a no-code A/B testing tool for businesses to evaluate how different payment methods perform—rely on pre-built user interfaces. This should allow merchants to quickly deploy the new features, …

Bitcoin Depot Inc., a Bitcoin ATM operator, has expanded the footprint of its BDCheckout program to more than 400 retail locations in Iowa and Louisiana. BDCheckout enables consumers to fund digital wallets with cryptocurrency at checkout through Bitcoin Depot’s network of merchants. Consumers can access BDCheckout at 246 convenience stores …

In a major case whose effects could ripple widely across the payments industry, Block Inc. this summer sued Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., alleging the global networks worked together to fix interchange fees paid by Block’s Square operation. Square, which processes card transactions for millions of mostly small sellers, pays …