Music-technology provider SoundExchange announced it is adding PayPal and Venmo as options for royalty payments to registered creators. The two payments channels join CashApp and Zelle as payout options on the platform. Tulip, a point-of-sale technology provider for retailers, said it will incorporate payments services from Stripe Inc. Dollar General announced DG Cash …

Entertainment-streaming platform Roku says a partnership with Shopify Inc. will provide viewers the ability to purchase products from Shopify merchants directly from their TV through Roku Action Ads. It works like this: When viewing an ad for a Shopify merchant, viewers press OK on their Roku remote to learn more …

Point-of-sale technology provider Adyen NV has added Tap to Pay on Android, which allows merchants to accept contactless card payments directly on a mobile device with no additional hardware. Adyen is adding the technology initially in the United States and Singapore. Checkout.com launched Identity Verification, a tool based on artificial intelligence that allows …

FIS Inc. is the latest processor to be certified for the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments network, which is scheduled to launch later this month. FIS, which announced yesterday it is selling a sell a 55% interest in its merchant-processing business, joins a growing list of certified FedNow participants, including  ACI …

The global digital gift card market is projected to reach $1.2 trillion in 2032, up from $310.1 billion in 2022, according to a report from market research firm Custom Market Insights. In 2023, CMI projects sales of digital gift cards will total $399 billion, a more than 28% year over …

An overwhelming risk-management burden, coupled with a lack of familiarity with consumer credit, may have triggered the decision at Goldman Sachs Group to negotiate a withdrawal from its agreement to support Apple Inc.’s credit card and its recently launched buy now, pay later service, according to observers. The Wall Street …

The fundamental problem with payments software is that, for most developers, it’s a necessary evil. They must integrate payment-transaction capabilities so they can get paid for all the other code they’re writing. Now, thanks to one-size-fits-all application programming interfaces and tokenization that devalues everything, developers barely know a PAN from …

The case for the Fed running digital dollars is at best unclear, at worst unwise. Like many central banks, the Federal Reserve has been studying, and socializing, the idea of issuing digital currency, which in some form might be held and used by individuals, firms, banks, and other central banks. …

DoorDash announced a number of new features for its food-delivery app, including the ability to create multiple carts simultaneously and the addition of online payments funded by SNAP/EBT benefits. Alphabet Inc.’s mobile-payments app, Google Wallet, will reportedly begin supporting QR codes to trigger payments, starting in Brazil. The wallet has up to …

Leading ATM manufacturer NCR Corp. took a big step Monday toward its goal of splitting into two independent companies with the filing of a registration statement for the spin-off of its ATM business. After a strategic review that included the possible sale of the entire company, Atlanta-based NCR announced the …