E-Commerce

Federal Express said Stripe will work with FedEx Dataworks to incorporate signals from FedEx’s network into Stripe’s platform in support of financing for small and medium-size businesses. FedEx has also agreed to offer Stripe as a payments-processing option. FedEx Datworks is the shipping company’s predictive-analytics service based on shipment data. …

Banking infrastructure provider Increase said it will use services from Spade to enable real-time merchant data for card transactions to appear on statements provided to consumers. FIS Inc. also said it would use Spade to provide clearer debit card descriptors. PAR Technology Corp. updated Bridg, its identity resolution and shopper …

Onboarding merchants is a critical part of acquiring, and two companies are tailoring their efforts to make it as easy and safe as possible. Payroc WorldAccess LLC released its Payroc for Developers platform to help software companies, independent software vendors, and development teams expedite their Payroc integrations. Meanwhile, LegitScript updated …

Canadian consumers made 26.7 billion retail payments in 2025 totaling $12.9 trillion, up 5.7% in value over 2024, according to the Canadian Payment Methods and Trends Report released Tuesday by Payments Canada. Point-of-sale system maker NCR Voyix Corp. said its new integration with TruAge, a digital age-verification service, will help its …

Mastercard Inc. has entered into a global reseller deal with Rezolve AI, a provider of commerce and customer-engagement capabilities based on artificial intelligence. The deal calls for the payments network to market, offer, and sell subscriptions to Rezolve AI’s software and services globally to merchants seeking technology to help manage …

Consumers made fewer shopping trips in September but demand for back-to-school supplies helped boost overall sales, according to Fiserv Inc.’s Small Business Index, released early Monday. All in all, the index for September registered at 146, up one point from August and a 2.2% increase from the same month last …

Invoice-management platform Basware has closed on its acquisition of Trustpair, a fraud-prevention technology provider focused on payments. Terms were not disclosed. The deal was announced in late August. The digital-asset trading platform XT Exchange launched a scan-to-pay capability for its XT Pay service, allowing XT app users to make purchases …

Surcharging compliance, once the sole domain of card brands, has spread into a patchwork quilt of state regulations that is making software providers and their payments partners feel the squeeze. The issue has little to do with the card brands, which altered their rules in 2013 to allow surcharging on …

Exodus Movement Inc. has launched Exodus Checkout, which allows businesses to accept dollar-denominated stablecoins. The rollout is starting in Argentina, with plans to expand across Latin America. The launch is taking place in partnership with DGO, the streaming platform for DirecTV in Latin America. The move comes as stablecoins—digital currency …

Consumers in New York City have a new option for canceling their online subscriptions with new rules issued by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani becoming effective Thursday, Oct. 1. The click-to-cancel rules require subscription providers to make it as easy to cancel as it was to sign up. A similar federal …