E-Commerce

Businesses are increasingly looking for software developers that can integrate payments and other traditional banking products and services and generate new revenue for the platforms that offer them, according to a recent report from The Strawhecker Group (TSG) and KeyBank. The trend, known as embedded banking, is a way for …

Mercedes-Benz’s new Mercedes pay+ in-car payment service is coming to five models manufactured by the Germany-based luxury-car maker. Though earlier efforts from a variety of car makers put in-car payments on the road, Mercedes-Benz is the first, with its Mercedes pay+ technology, to use Visa Inc.’s Delegated Authentication and Cloud …

The payments orchestration platform Spreedly announced integrations to Venmo, PayPal Credit, PayPal Pay Later, and automated clearing house payments for clients of PayPal and Spreedly who process through PayPal’s Braintree unit. In related news, payments provider CellPoint Digital said airline Icelandair will use its Velocity payment orchestration platform to access payment providers in countries …

To better serve the growing segment of online shoppers who don’t want to wait for delivery and want to avoid paying shipping costs, e-commerce platform provider BigCommerce Pty. Ltd. has added buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) capabilities. The move is being spurred in part by the continued growth …

The major Canadian processor Nuvei Corp. on Sunday announced the next step in its international expansion with the news that it has begun operations in Australia to process e-commerce traffic. The move follows a trend as North American processors master overseas payment methods and look to compete with local providers. …

The big processor FIS Inc. may be a possible acquisition target of Visa Inc., according to news reports that emerged last week. The card network reportedly was eyeing FIS before the processor announced last month it would spin off its Worldpay processing unit but might still bid to acquire all or part of the …

As industry lobbyists prepare to converge on Capitol Hill next week, payments interest groups are issuing salvos designed to move the argument over limits on credit card acceptance costs in their favor. One such advance move came Thursday with an email campaign launched by the Electronic Payments Coalition citing a …

Payments-technology provider Modern Treasury and Silicon Valley Bank launched what they call a global payment solution to let clients of the two companies send cross-border payments at lower than prevailing costs and using local automated clearing house networks. SpecTrust Inc., whose Trust Cloud offers fraud protection for online transactions, said it has …

Nearly two months after announcing it was resuming money transfers from the United States to Cuba, The Western Union Co. is significantly expanding the service to include more than 4,400 locations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico from which remittances to the island nation can be initiated. In addition, U.S. …

“While many [buy now, pay later] borrowers who we observed used the product without any noticeable indications of financial stress, BNPL borrowers were, on average, much more likely to be highly indebted, revolve on their credit cards, have delinquencies in traditional credit products, and use high-interest financial services such as …