Competitive Strategies

Visa Inc. announced a pilot for Visa+, a service that allows users to move payments between rival peer-to-peer payments networks. The pilot, set to launch later this year, will begin with transfers between PayPal and Venmo, a PayPal-owned network, but plans are to include P2P services DailyPay, i2c, TabaPay, and Western …

Upset with the customer-service aspects of its cobranded card-issuing deal with Capital One Financial Corp., Walmart Inc. has sued the bank, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. Among the allegations brought by Walmart is that Capital One failed to replace lost cards or post some transactions to customers’ accounts …

Ordering ahead for a Domino’s pizza from your car just became a little easier for iPhone users with the release Monday of an order-ahead app for CarPlay, the in-car infotainment app from Apple Inc. The Domino’s Pizza Inc. app now enables consumers to Tap to Order or Call to Order …

Payments provide Praxis Tech Ltd. has introduced a service it calls Merchant Initiated Transactions, which allows sellers to leverage a card-on-file option to initiate single-click payments on behalf of customers. GoDaddy Inc., a provider of payments and other services for small business, has released a small-business generative AI prompt library, which offers …

When you’re pressed for time, there’s probably a handful of neighborhood stores where you shop regularly. You can depend on them in those hurried moments, whether it’s the small retailer that stocks your favorite items, the local coffee shop that knows just how you like your coffee, or the mobile …

In a major case whose effects could ripple widely across the payments industry, Block Inc. has sued Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., alleging the global networks worked together to fix interchange fees paid by Block’s Square operation. Square, which processes card transactions for millions of mostly small sellers, pays interchange …

Intuit Inc. recently announced that it will end support for its QuickBooks Desktop Point of Sale 19.0, one of the oldest payment-accepting POS systems in the market, as of Oct. 3. Intuit is referring users to Shopify Inc., but other payments companies are scrambling for the business. The date of …

Insurance-industry payments specialist ePayPolicy launched Payables Connect, which it says automates reconciliation, creation, and payment of due payables. Technical-standards provider Global Platform said it will offer a seminar in Brussels April 26 on security for digital wallets offering eID. MSP Recovery Inc., which offers a product called LifeWallet to help providers manage medical …

Payment processor Euronet Worldwide Inc. on Wednesday announced a new fraud-monitoring service called Skylight the company says will enable analysts to write rules for monitoring suspicious transactions without needing to change software coding. The cloud-based service comes from Euronet’s epay division and runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Amazon.com Inc.’s …

Payment processing platform CardX is making Mastercard Click to Pay available on Lightbox, its online payment form, to all existing and new card-not-present merchants on its platform. Mastercard Click to Pay stores a consumer’s payment information using an encrypted, virtual card number to enable secure online shopping. Lightbox enables consumers …