Shift4 Payments Inc. last month said it has concluded agreements to acquire international e-commerce acquirer Finaro and cryptocurrency-based donation platform Giving Block in deals valued at $875 million in cash and stock, including future earnout provisions. The latter deal has already closed, while Allentown, Pa.-based Shift4 expects to close the …

Despite the economy reopening after the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, e-commerce continues to boom as consumers embrace shopping online from home or via their mobile device.  A recent study from FIS Inc. reveals that e-commerce transaction values in the United States grew 10% in 2021 compared to 2020, …

Payments-technology firm Buy It Mobility launched BuyPass, a platform aimed at allowing merchants to more quickly launch automated clearing house and merchant-branded payments programs. BIM is working with network capabilities and virtual card technology from Discover Network to reduce the time and cost for merchant integration.Transaction-security firm Forter launched Smart Payments, a technology that uses the …

Amazon.com Inc.’s decision to pull back from its threat to stop accepting Visa cards issued in the United Kingdom may have evoked a sigh of relief among some consumers, not to mention at Visa itself, but it also could betoken some complex dynamics behind the decision-making at both corporate giants. …

The pandemic has lent momentum to a number of trends in digital payments, but one of the biggest is the buy now, pay later option. The installment plan isn’t new, but providers have offered it as a way of giving merchants another payment channel as Covid-wary consumers crowded online. With …

PayPal Holdings Inc. might buy the Pinterest social media company for approximately $45 billion in what would be the tech industry’s biggest takeover of 2021, Bloomberg reported.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued an order to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, and Square asking for information on how they use personal payment data …

The two big card networks are making preparations for big moves into cryptocurrency payments. But crypto is no stranger to fraud, so Mastercard Inc. on Thursday announced it is acquiring CipherTrace Inc., a 6-year-old company specializing in technology to combat money laundering and other crimes involving digital-currency transactions. The deal, …

One consequence of the pandemic has been a boom in e-commerce. And now consumers can purchase automobiles online just as easily as they can most any other product.  Otoz, a subsidiary of business-services and enterprise-software provider Netsol Technologies Inc., announced on Monday its e-commerce app for Mini auto dealers is …

On the heels of Square Inc.’s acquisition of Afterpay Ltd., other buy now, pay later providers are jockeying to boost their position in the hotly competitive BNPL market.  Sezzle Inc. struck a deal Tuesday with e-commerce platform BigCommerce Holdings Inc. to become its preferred BNPL partner. BigCommerce will integrate Sezzle …

Plenty of reports since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic have documented how consumers have responded by shifting to e-commerce—some for the first time—but few reports break out the impact on the mobile segment of that number. It turns out the pandemic has spurred considerable shopping by mobile-phone users, as …