AfterShip, an e-commerce service, said it has enabled merchant users to get real-time delivery updates and track orders through Apple Wallet. Fortress Payments, a fintech for credit card issuing and acquiring, said it will work with AI-software provider Paravision to update Fortress’s Payment Identity Platform via face-matching and “liveness” technology. …

Cryptocurrency as a payment method is only wanted by less than 1% of online shoppers surveyed in a Chargebacks911 report. The survey was performed by consulting and research firm TSG of 4,000 consumers. Payments platform ConnexPay said it is working with the UATP network and has launched its ConnexPay UATP card, a virtual card that …

Coinbase Commerce said it will no longer support so-called native payments made with Bitcoin on its merchant platform but will support transactions in which the user has a Coinbase account. The move was made to avoid “challenging” processing issues Coinbase had encountered in handling Bitcoin transactions made by users without Coinbase …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s most recent analysis of card issuing practices found that in the first half of 2023 small banks and credit unions tended to offer lower interest rates than the top 25 issuers. For consumers with scores between 620 and 719, the median annual percentage rate for a large …

Shift4 Payments Inc. launched SkyTab Website Builder, a tool enabling restaurants to more easily design a Web site. Businesses using Shift4’s SkyTab point-of-sale payments technology can access the new service for free. Blackhawk Network announced Select Codes, which businesses can send to customers to enable access to prepaid gift cards. Bank of …

FIS Inc. said it is working with Banked, an open-banking provider, to develop new pay by bank services for businesses and consumers. Gateway provider Trice Technologies Inc. said it is a technology provider and real-time payments gateway for the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC. Web services and payments provider GoDaddy …

Bank of America reported an all-time high 21.5 million customers now use the peer-to-peer payments network Zelle. BofA customers last year sent and received 1.24 billion Zelle payments totaling $373 billion, both also record highs. In the fourth quarter, Zelle send transactions were double the number of checks written, the bank …

Picklejar Entertainment Group, whose software manages payments and other functions for events, launched contest-management capability incorporating the company’s identity-verification technology. Finmont, a travel-related payments-orchestration platform, has agreed to add processing from payments platform ConnexPay. William P. Foley II has been appointed chief executive of Cannae Holdings Inc., whose investments include a 6% …

Cantaloupe Inc., a payments processor for vending machines and unattended markets, reported 1.23 million active devices online at the end of its December quarter, up 7% year-over-year. Active clients totaled 30,027, a 14% rise. Revenue for the quarter came to $65.4 million, up 7%, while transaction volume grew 12% to …

Payments provider Lightspeed Commerce Inc. reported December-quarter revenue of $239.7 million, up 27% year-over-year. The company narrowed its net loss to $40.2 million from $814.8 million a year ago. Payments platform FleetCor Technologies Inc. reported December-quarter revenue of $937.3 million, up 6% year-over-year. Net income rose 6% to $255.9 million. For full-year 2023, revenue …