Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit on Wednesday announced a major overhaul of its 5-year-old Google Pay wallet to push beyond mobile payments and incorporate links and data Google says will generate daily usage. The move comes as major payment apps such as Apple Pay and Google Pay have sought to boost …

MagTek Inc. released its DynaFlex platform. Announced Tuesday, the platform can serve as a countertop or mobile device, be mounted to a tablet, or affixed to a standalone kiosk.  Designed to work with multiple configurations, DynaFlex is compatible with Windows and Android devices. It can accept payment via magstripe, EMV …

Petroleum giant ExxonMobil Corp. is adding QR code and near-field communication-enabled tags to its fuel pumps for consumers using Apple Pay or Google Pay. ExxonMobil says more than 11,500 U.S. Exxon and Mobil stations will have the tags by year’s end. Users can hold their iPhones or Android phones against …

Visa Inc. on Wednesday announced the rollout in 15 geographic markets of Visa Tap to Phone, which allows consumers to initiate a transaction simply by tapping a contactless card to a merchant’s NFC-enabled mobile device.  Tap to Phone is now live in numerous countries throughout Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia …

Taking a page from Square Inc.’s playbook, PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Venmo peer-to-peer payments service is testing what it calls Venmo Business Profiles, a potentially revenue-generating service that enables Venmo users who are sole proprietors of small businesses to sell goods through an affiliated page visible to other Venmo users. Announced …

The guide has a slightly different name now, but the same purpose—to seek out and describe the nonbank players, apart from the big networks, that are rewriting the rules for the digital exchange of value. Since 2004, Digital Transactions has traced the course of payments innovation through its nimblest practitioners—the …

Public-transportation fare payments are morphing from closed-loop magnetic-stripe cards to contactless cards and mobile payments. Up next: One app to pay for all, including scooters, bikes, and shared rides. Tokens are long gone and magnetic stripes are going. Contactless is coming. Beyond that, one app for all? That, in a …

Los Angeles-area merchants that sell transit tickets on behalf of 25 transit agencies will adopt an Android-based app for ticket sales, Cubic Corp. announced Thursday. Cubic says its Cubic Transportation Systems division is upgrading the existing point-of-sale infrastructure more than 450 retailers use to accommodate the Cubic Mobile for Merchants …

Automatic Labs Inc., a unit of SiriusXM, announced its Connected Car Assistant is available at major retailers nationwide for $99.99. The product, which consists of an app and an adapter, allows drivers to pay road tolls, among other connected-car functions. Revel Systems Inc. completed the installation of its cloud-based iPad …

Grocery-store giant The Kroger Co. is joining the ranks of retailers with a proprietary mobile-payments service, and adding a debit card to boot. Cincinnati-based Kroger, which has 2,800 stores under numerous banners, last month unveiled Kroger Pay and its accompanying Kroger Rewards debit card. Kroger Pay, available for iOS and …