E-Commerce

Paze, the digital-checkout option from Early Warning Services LLC, lined up Domino’s Pizza Inc. and PayRange LLC as the latest merchants to offer the online-only service. Domino’s says more than 85% of its sales come through digital-ordering channels. PayRange specializes in self-service transactions, such as for laundry machines. Paze will …

The cryptocurrency platform KuCoin introduced its Tomorrowland Limited Edition KuCard, a Visa card issued in partnership with the Tomorrowland music festival taking place March 21-28. Glia, an AI platform for banks, has integrated a loan-payment technology from MessagePay in an effort to integrate payments into digital interactions between community banks and their …

Square Inc., the point-of-sale technology platform from Block Inc., announced two new deals late Wednesday and early Thursday that underscore its POS ambitions both domestically and abroad. In Chicago, Square said a seafood seller called The Fish Guy has installed an e-commerce service supported by Square and eGrowcery, a Birmingham, …

As creatures of habit, individuals often follow a routine throughout the day, and that extends into their local shopping activity. New data from Square, the point-of-sale arm of Block Inc., have found that regular customers generate six times more revenue for local businesses than more transient shoppers. Drawing on transactions …

Mastercard Inc. announced early Tuesday it has agreed to pay $1.8 billion to acquire BVNK, a London-based stablecoin platform. The deal comes amid growing interest in stablecoins among fintechs, banks, and payments providers and as payments networks increasingly view the cryptocurrency as a practical vehicle for overall growth. The transaction, …

Early Warning Services LLC said Citi, a unit of Citigroup Inc., will offer Paze, the Early Warning online checkout service, to its cardholders. They can activate Paze via Citi.com, the Citi mobile app, or on Paze. Celero Commerce said it acquired substantially all of the assets of Petroleum Processing Solutions. The acquisition …

New York City-based payments and corporate card platform Ramp Business Corp., said it has acquired Juno, a platform that offers travel arrangements for non-employee travel. Terms were not announced. Ramp’s deal for Juno was preceded by its Friday announcement that it has acquired Billhop, a payments provider licensed in the United Kingdom …

Consumers spend more and shop with greater frequency when friction is removed from payments, says a study from the payments provider Network Merchants Inc., also known as NMI. Some 50% of respondents in the study said they shop more frequently when payments feel seamless, and 48% say they spend more at …

Restaurateurs generally will seek any edge to persuade consumers to spend their dining dollars with them. Online-ordering platform Restolabs says it now offers independent restaurants similar services to those used by enterprise-level restaurants, which could potentially increase their online conversion rates. Meanwhile, Finix Payments Inc. released its mobile point-of-sale app …