Zumigo Inc., a provider of mobile-identity authentication technology, says it has enhanced its DeRiskify fraud-prevention product for e-commerce merchants by enabling sellers to authenticate customers without a password requirement when customers log into their account. Eliminating the need for passwords in the customer-verification process pleases customers, which in turn can …

Payments-technology provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. posted record revenue of $755.6 million in 2023, up 13.9% from the previous year. The year was capped off by a record fourth quarter, during which Priority posted revenues of $199.3 million, a 12.2% increase from the same period a year earlier. In both …

SheerID Inc., a provider of identity-verification technology, and software developer Payment Plugins are collaborating to provide a consumer identity-verification solution for e-commerce platform provider WooCommerce. The deal will seek to enable WooCommerce merchants to reduce fraud by ensuring gated offers and discounts are being used by customers who are the …

Bruce Lowthers has been a man on a mission since taking over as chief executive at a struggling Paysafe Ltd. nearly two years ago, and early on Thursday he laid out an agenda for the work his company has yet to do. While he touted some improvement so far, “there …

The big Montreal-based processor Nuvei Corp. has had a busy year since its headline acquisition early in 2023 of Atlanta-based Paya Holdings Inc., and late on Tuesday it disclosed how that activity has helped buoy its financial results. Nuvei, which was known until 2018 as Pivotal Payments, reported it processed …

Faced with a proposal to make it easier to stop a subscription, payments companies and subscription specialists have much to ponder. Everyone dreads the inevitable sales pitch that comes when trying to cancel some subscriptions. There’s multiple pages to read online and the search to find the diminutive cancel button. …

A new way of shopping using the PayPal app and related services is in the offing. Announced late in January, the update includes a one-click guest checkout experience, digital receipts PayPal calls Smart Receipts, a revised offers platform, and improvements to business profiles for Venmo, its social peer-to-peer payments service. …

Wide-ranging disruptions in microchip supply slammed the payments industry hard from 2020 to 2022. Now, are terminal makers better prepared? Back in 2020 and 2021, terminal makers were scrambling to get their hands on the microchips they needed to power their devices. Lead times on orders had stretched to 18 …

Challenges abound for card managers. Here’s how to manage them more efficiently. The payments space is one arena in the financial services industry that is uniquely ripe for change and disruption. The growth of embedded finance, cross-border payments, blockchain technology, real-time transactions and more are all combining to create a …

London-based buy now, pay later platform Zilch said it will launch in April an option allowing users to spread interest-free payments over three months. A trial of the service is in progress with 100,000 Zilch users. The company, whose main offering requires repayment over six weeks, claims 3.6 million users overall. Yardi, …