Shift4 Payments Inc. named founder Jared Isaacman as its executive chairman effective Thursday. Isaacman had been nominated to lead NASA but last weekend President Trump withdrew that nomination. Taylor Lauber, who had been Shift4 president, moved to the chief executive position, Shift4 announced. Direct-to-consumer e-commerce provider ESW said its “Impact of Tariffs on …

Klarna AB has unveiled Klarna Card, a debit card offering the choice to pay immediately or later. The product incorporates the Visa Flexible Credential technology from Visa Inc. In other Visa news, the card network appointed Andrew Torre president of value-added services, replacing Antony Cahill, who has been appointed regional president and …

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman, Shift4 Payments Inc. founder and chief executive, as the nominee to lead NASA, the Associated Press reported. In a statement on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “After a thorough review of prior associations I am hereby withdrawing the nomination of Jared …

Flexa, a payments platform based on digital assets, said it is working with wallet provider Nexus Wallet to simplify payments via the cryptocurrency Litecoin. The partnership is active at 41,000 retail locations in North America, the parties say. Stablecoin-based payments platform Stable Sea launched Stable Sea Terminal, said to be capable of …

Bluevine, a banking platform for small businesses, launched Invoicing and Payment Links, aimed at allowing businesses to receive payments directly in bank accounts via a range of payment methods. The buy now, pay later platform Affirm Inc. said it is expanding its partnership with the merchant Williams-Sonoma Inc. to Canada. Besides Williams-Sonoma, …

Global Payments Inc. has agreed to sell its payroll unit, Heartland Payroll Solutions, to insurance fintech Acrisure LLC for $1.1 billion. The business serves more than 50,000 clients. Castles Technology said it is working with PXP, a payments platform, to offer Android point-of-sale devices to merchants regardless of size. Some 73% of …

Apple Inc. said it is expanding Tap to Pay on iPhone to eight additional European countries. Tap to Pay on iPhone enables merchants to accept contactless payments using an iPhone and a payments-acceptance app with no additional hardware. Payments-orchestration platform Transcard LLC announced it will work with the processor Thredd Group Ltd. to expand Transcard’s capabilities …

Payments-technology provider ACI Worldwide Inc. announced CIMB Bank, said to be the second-largest financial-services provider in Malaysia, has opted for ACI’s services to merge all of the bank’s account-to-account transactions onto a single platform. Bitget Wallet unveiled a new logo as part of an ad campaign to advertise its position as a crypto …

Curve has launched Curve Pay on the iOS operating system for European consumers, becoming the first payments technology to use the iPhone’s NFC interface following Apple Inc.’s agreement with the European Commission to open that interface to competing services. U.S. Bank has issued a Visa debit card cobranded with Gonzaga University and aimed at …

Nearly 42% of breaches suffered by major fintech companies stem from third-party vendors, according to “Defending the Financial Supply Chain: Strengths and Vulnerabilities in Top Fintech Companies,” issued by Security Scorecard, which analyzed 250 major fintechs. The processor FIS Inc. said it will work with Letskipp Ltd., also known as Kipp, to develop …