Few, if any, business sectors are as hotly competitive these days for payments providers as hospitality, and in particular, restaurants. Major firms from Block Inc.’s Square unit to Toast Inc. to Shift4 Payments Inc. have big stakes in this market. But that hasn’t stopped one other entrant, Lightspeed Commerce Inc., …

Paysafe Ltd. has been all about growth since Bruce Lowthers took over a year ago as chief executive, and on Tuesday he contended the London-based processor is expanding nicely in its key wallet and iGaming markets. “We returned to growth in the second half of 2022,” Lowthers told equity analysts …

Jack Henry & Associates Inc., one of the earliest participants in the Federal Reserve’s nascent FedNow real-time payments platform, said early Monday it is “operationally ready” to support the service when it launches commercially in July. The Monett, Mo.-based processor said more than 20 client institutions are set to connect …

Mid-size payments processors have contended with a pandemic, a sharply rising cost of funds, and pronounced inflation over the past few years, but that hasn’t stopped them from capturing volume, particularly from the small and medium-size merchants that have long been their specialty. In results reported early Thursday, Alpharetta, Ga.-based …

PayPal has been known for some time as a major alternative for checkout online, but now the company is making it plain it’s putting considerable resources behind checkouts where its services function entirely in the background. So-called unbranded checkout, led by the company’s Braintree processing platform along with a relatively …

Merchants’ price for accepting credit cards has remained steady for years, according to data released Monday by the Electronic Payments Coalition, an advocacy group representing the payment card industry. The EPC’s release comes as widespread and longstanding merchant complaints about the cost of card acceptance have sparked efforts by federal …

Shift4 Payments Inc. is still waiting on approval from European regulators to complete its $525-million Finaro acquisition, but in the mean time the Allentown, Pa.-based processor has been busy expanding in its home market. That expansion includes yet other acquisitions aimed at consolidating Shift4’s grip on the restaurant point-of-sale market, …

Businesses were quick to adopt online chat platforms as a handy meeting tool during the pandemic, and now payments providers are starting to target the services as a new venue for transactions. One of the first is GoDaddy Inc., which on Monday announced it is working with Microsoft Corp. to …

The big processor Global Payments Inc. on Monday morning announced upbeat first-quarter results but also said its chief executive, Jeff Sloan, is departing after nine years in the role. Sloan, who will leave Global Payments June 1 and will be succeeded by long-time president and chief operating officer Cameron Bready, …

A sort of disequilibrium has set in in payments mergers and acquisitions, leading to fewer deals and stretched out times to conclude the deals that do close, according to M&A experts who spoke this week at the Electronic Transactions Association’s Transact conference in Atlanta. The new dispensation contrasts sharply with …