E-Commerce

Real-time payments network Thunes Ltd. announced early Monday its connection to Swift, the Brussels-based international financial-messaging network, will enable financial institutions to support the sending and receiving of money to and from more than 3 million mobile wallets globally. Using Thunes’s Direct Global Network, which covers 130 countries and 80 …

Square, the acquiring arm of Block Inc., is diving deeper into health-and-beauty services via a partnership with business-to-business distributor SalonCentric, a unit of L’Oreal USA, and expanding options in its app marketplace. In related news, Worldpay will continue as the exclusive payments provider for The Reynolds and Reynolds Co., a …

American Express Co.’s top brass early Friday stressed the company’s technology build-up in the red-hot restaurant category while stressing a need to spur cardholder spending overall as the card company presented its third-quarter 2024 results. Revenue in the quarter hit $16.6 billion, up 8% from the September quarter last year, …

Faster payment volumes continue to mount in the U.S. market as Nacha, the regulatory body for the nation’s automated clearing house network, announced early Thursday same-day transaction volume grew 67.5% in the third quarter compared to the same period in 2023. That growth resulted in 355.2 million payments, compared to …

More than a year after proposing a click-to-cancel rule for subscriptions and recurring transactions, the Federal Trade Commission released a final version of the measure, officially called the Negative Option Rule. Announced Wednesday, the rule’s five primary elements call for important subscription information to be truthful, clear, and easy to …

Apple Inc. which is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the introduction of Apple Pay, said the payments service is now supported by more than 11,000 banks and networks globally and has attracted “hundreds of millions” of users in 78 markets around the world. Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB payment options …

The risk exposure to businesses from synthetic identity fraud totaled $3.2 billion during the first half of 2024—an all-time high, and up from $3 billion during the same period a year ago, says TransUnions’s “H2 2024 Update” to its State of Omnichannel Fraud Report. Criminals actively used synthetic identities to …

Oracle Corp. launched Oracle Health Payments, which the company says combines gateway routing, processing, and acquiring in a single contract for health-care providers. Capabilities include tap-to-pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay. Visa Inc. said it is collaborating with Analytic Partners to enable a data-analytics service for merchants. The fintech Pivot …

Tyfone Inc., a provider of consumer and commercial digital banking services for community banks and credit unions, has launched Payfinia Inc., a separate company that provides real-time payments technology. Payfinia’s flagship product will be the Instant Payment Xchange (IPX), which provides consumers with the ability make an account-to-account payment using …

Two payments providers, in separate developments, are fine- tuning their services for veterinary-practice software makers. Gravity Payments Inc. has an integration with Fear Free LLC, a software developer, and Weave is updating its software for veterinary clinics. Broomfield, Colo.-based Fear Free says it will offer Gravity’s payment option with its …