[Aug. 13] Six months after issuing an API code to enable surcharging for online transactions, Chicago-based Yeeld released YeeldPay, its surcharging program for merchants. Yeeld says YeeldPay is a no-code payment page that provides merchants across the United States with a compliant surcharging program that, because it uses the Yeeld Surcharging …
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[Jan. 13] J.P. Morgan Payments, the payments arm of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co., is blazing its own path with two new payment terminals, both proprietary to the payment service. Announced Monday, the J.P. Morgan Paypad and Pinpad integrate in-store biometric authentication with payment acceptance. The point-of-sale devices are …
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Predictions that gift cards would be a popular choice this holiday shopping season may bear out. At least one gift card provider, Tillo Inc., finds that across Black Friday to Cyber Monday, Nov. 28-Dec.1, its total sales were up 41% over the similar period in 2024. Tillo, based in the …
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Less than 90 days into closing its acquisition of BlueSnap Inc., Payroc WorldAccess LLC is pushing ahead with its dual strategy of courting small and mid-size businesses that may need a point-of-sale terminal and prospecting larger merchants with integrated payment needs. It sees the acquisition not as an end goal, …
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Count Talus among the latest payments companies to adopt softPOS technology, which enables merchants to accept contactless payments with no special hardware. In related news, Oracle Corp. said its Oracle Payments service is now available in Canada and issued several updates to the service. Dallas-based Talus says its incorporation of …
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With at least one forecast, from Morgan Stanley, predicting agentic commerce could capture from 10% to 20% of U.S. e-commerce spending by 2030, payments companies are quickly prepping. The latest is the pairing of Visa Inc. and Akamai Technologies Inc., a cybersecurity and cloud-computing company. The Visa and Akamai collaboration …
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PayPal Holdings Inc. is embarking on another stage in its evolution with its application for a Utah-chartered industrial loan company to be called PayPal Bank. PayPal announced the move late Monday saying it submitted applications to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Utah Deptarment of Financial Institutions. A successful …
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Differentiation is a key tactic in the payments world, and Aurora Payments and Clara Capital are the latest in merchant processing to stand out with new services. First, Tempe, Ariz.-based Aurora Payments is working with Germany-based 2S LimouSolution to integrate the Aurora Arise payment platform in 2S’s software. Launched in …
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Yet more evidence of U.S. consumer reliance on mobile phones emerges as 45% of consumers prefer to pay their bills with a mobile device, up from 29% only last year. That finding from the InvoiceCloud 2026 Annual State of Online Payments Report also signals other big shifts in payment preferences. …
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With one agentic-commerce forecast calling for a total addressable market of $136 billion in 2025, it’s little wonder so many payments companies and merchants are tackling the emerging e-commerce option. One of the latest is Logicbroker Inc., a multivendor commerce platform that is partnering with PayPal Holdings Inc. to broaden …
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