Hyper growth in e-commerce has lifted many processors over the past 18 months, but some are also benefiting from a diverse array of payment methods and clients. This group includes Paya Holdings Inc., which Friday morning reported a nearly 28% year-over-year increase in payment volume for its third quarter ended …

In the face of an ongoing pandemic, Square Inc. late Thursday reported a record quarter for gross processing volume and made it plain its strategic priorities are to move upmarket to larger merchants and to expand the user base for its consumer product, Cash App. Recent moves include Square Invoices …

Payments provider Lightspeed Commerce Inc. reported revenue for its quarter ended Sept. 30 of $133.2 million, up 193% year over year. The number includes contributions from recent acquisitions, including NuOrder, Vend, Upserve, and ShopKeep.FreedomPay Inc. said restaurant chain Shake Shack will use its Touchless Commerce service at more than 200 locations. This will …

Heading into the holiday shopping season, consumers are poised to make even more use of buy now, pay later options than in the past. Overall, 42% of consumers plan to use BNPL while holiday shopping, according to a survey by GoCardless, a provider of account-to-account payments. When Millennials were asked …

Another sort of unicorn. Here’s why it’s more accurate to speak of super-power apps. Mobile payments in the United States remain a minority, accounting for just under 4% of all payments made in-person. Even worse, 25% of U.S. consumers are still using paper forms of payment, including checks. Fintech-supplied bank accounts …

After more than 18 months of pandemic, are you on the road to normal? In this, our annual catalog of woes and worries, we shine the spotlight on that road’s biggest potholes. Well, nobody signed up for this, right? More than a year-and-a-half after what had been a booming economy …

No longer content to use a stolen credit card, criminals are targeting e-commerce merchants for everything from customer account data to loyalty points to BNPL fraud. Criminals follow the money, and, with e-commerce booming and more merchants selling online than ever before, it’s no surprise that fraudsters are flocking to …

Merchant attrition is actually a little lower than it was before the pandemic. But don’t get too excited. The total picture is a little more complicated than that. First, the good news. Merchant attrition, expressed as a percentage of all accounts with $5 million or less in annual credit and …

Wallets could be a lot emptier by this time next year, and it will have nothing to do with the spending capacity of consumers. As Digital Transactions reported in September (“Out of the Chips”), a pandemic-driven shortage in computer chips is hitting the payments industry. Now, as cards expire, issuers …

If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught merchants anything, it’s that they need to take a radically wider sales approach to engage with customers online and offline, across any device, argues a new report from payments provider Square Inc. The report explores some of the ways merchants are using tools from …