Affirm Inc. said it will work with Hotels.com to allow consumers to book rooms and pay over time. The move builds on Affirm’s existing partnerships with Expedia Group. Shopping-app installs increased 61% in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, according to Adjust’s shopping-app insights report. myKaarma, …

Interac Corp., Canada’s national debit network, said 69% of Gen Z Canadian adults have embraced the mobile wallet, while 63 % prefer to leave their physical wallet at home for short trips, according to a recent survey. Gen Z’s use of mobile wallets outpaces all other generations including Millennials (60%), …

Flexa, a digital-currency platform, has launched Flexa Components, a program aimed at easing wallet-based point-of-sale payments with cryptocurrencies. In related news, gift card platform Raise said it will accept cryptocurrency in its Raise App, used by 6 million consumers, according to the company. Payments-technology provider Sionic has launched a fraud-detection and mitigation service aimed …

FIS Inc. said it will make a peer-to-peer payment service from Neural Payments available to its banking customers. The white-label product enables bank customers to transfer money from their accounts to anyone, regardless of weather the recipient’s financial institution uses Neural Payments and without the need to download a third-party app …

Lightspeed Commerce, a specialist in hospitality payments, launched Retail Insights, a data service for merchants. Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it will process all ticket sales and foodservice payments at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, the arena for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. U.S.-based fintech software firm OMNIQ Corp. said …

The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. has begun work on a new QR code payments standard. The goal is to establish the content of a QR code for payments, emphasize interoperability, and include both merchant-presented and consumer-presented QR codes. X9 said the standard is needed to accelerate the adoption of instant payments. Block …

Sweden-based EasyPark Group, a provider of mobile apps for parking payments, is working with parking-technology firms ZipBy and Fennix to enable parking and gate-entry at parking lots throughout Vancouver, British Columbia. EasyPark expanded into North America in 2021 with its acquisition of Park Now Group, which included ParkMobile LLC. EasyPark acquired Park …

Lightspeed Commerce Inc. announced it is working with US Foods Holding Corp., a large foodservice distributor, to sell Lightspeed’s payments technology for restaurants in the U.S. market. Embedded payments provider i3 Verticals Inc. reported $56 million in fiscal third-quarter revenue, down 2.3% from $57.3 million year-over-year. Its net loss increased to $8.3 million …

Hospitality point-of-sale maker Toast Inc. said it now serves 120,000 merchant locations as of the end of the second quarter, a 29% increase from the same period a year ago. Its gross payment volume jumped 26% year-over-year to $40.5 billion. Toast posted second quarter revenue of $1.24 billion, a 27% increase from …

Drug store chain Walgreens announced it is enabling online SNAP/EBT payment acceptance via Instacart nationwide at more than 7,500 Walgreens stores, including more than 100 Duane Reade stores in New York. Most Walgreens locations already accept SNAP/EBT payments in store. Walgreens also added DoorDash Inc.’s SNAP/EBT acceptance earlier this year. In related news, Instacart also announced …