E-Commerce

Payments provider Kurv is applying the notion of all-in-one access not just for its merchants, but for its sales agents, too, with the release of Kurv Agent. The online portal contains several tools that agents might have had to access one-by-one. Among the suite of tools is the ability to …

Mastercard Inc. unveiled enhancements to Mastercard in Control, its platform for virtual card numbers, including advanced virtual card controls and a single connection to the payments network’s network of embedded-payments partners. Point-of-sale platform Lightspeed Commerce Inc. launched its Lightspeed with Meta Conversions API for Lightspeed Retail. The utility helps merchants understand how Meta ads …

A New York state lawsuit filed against Early Warning Services LLC and its Zelle peer-to-peer platform can continue, a judge ruled this week. Filed in August, the suit alleged Zelle failed to protect users from fraud. Zelle intends to appeal, Reuters reported. Forty-five percent of U.S. households expect to use a buy now, pay …

Restaurant point-of-sale system maker Qu released Qu Pay, a service that combines payment processing, guest identity, order intelligence, and capital access into a single platform. Restaurant chain Roy Rogers was among the first to adopt Qu Pay. MNEE Pay, a stablecoin payment platform found that 62% of U.S. stablecoin holders have converted …

Stablecoins have been on payments companies’ radar screens for years, but only recently has the digital currency gained the credibility needed to move processors, merchants, and users toward using stablecoins for everyday payments. The latest example of this emerged early Tuesday with an announcement from Mesh, a San Francisco-based crypto …

A-Comm Technologies Inc. said its draft A-Comm Evidence Protocol for agentic commerce is available for public comment through Aug. 14. The protocol supports a record of evidence to establish the validity of AI-initiated consumer transactions. Software-testing platform Testlio said of all the high- to medium-severity software issues reported in its 2026 Software Quality …

With demand for hotel rooms forecasted to pick up this year and next in the United States, hospitality point-of-sale specialist Mews is adding multicurrency processing for hotel operators in the United States and Canada. Already made available 14 months ago to European hotels, the multicurrency service enables international travelers to …

Visa Inc. has been involved in various stages of stablecoin processing for the last three years, but this week the card network stepped up its involvement with the cryptocurrency, launching Visa Stablecoin Platform. The new service is starting out in beta testing with “select clients,” Visa says, as companies determine …

Everyone has bills to pay, and two payments companies are making moves to make that chore as easy as possible. Repay Holdings Corp. is working with SBT, or Solutions by Text, to enable financial-services providers to offer payment via text messages. Separately, InvoiceCloud Inc. is working with public-sector software specialist …