It’s a busy day for PayPal Holdings Inc. and its payments services. Five years after launching PayPal Pay in 4 in the United States, PayPal now offers the buy now, pay later product in Canada. PayPal also said Venmo, its social-based money movement service, launched Stash, a rewards program for …
Read More »Affirm’s Results Boost Its BNPL Ranking
Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Holdings Inc. says Amazon.com Inc. extended by five years its deal with Affirm to offer installment-payment services, an option first offered in 2023. The move comes as Affirm posted $933.3 million in revenue for its 2026 fiscal first quarter. Affirm, in a shareholder letter, …
Read More »Isaacman Again Tapped for NASA and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/5/25
Shift4 Payments Inc. executive chairman and founder Jared Isaacman was again nominated by President Trump to serve as the NASA administrator. An earlier nomination of Issacman to that role was withdrawn by Trump in May. U.S. Bank launched Split World Mastercard, a credit card that enables automatic no-fee, no interest equal monthly payments …
Read More »T-Mobile Teams With Capital One On Rewards Cards; CPI Card Group’s Arroweye Boost
Wireless carrier T-Mobile has partnered with Capital One Financial Corp. to issue a no-fee credit card that allows cardholders to use the card’s rewards toward the purchase of a new phone or accessories from T-Mobile, and also to pay their monthly bill. The new card was announced by both companies …
Read More »MivaPay Launches and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/4/25
E-commerce platform Miva Inc. launched MivaPay, developed with PayPal Holdings Inc., to make it easier for merchants to accept payments. Video-game commerce company Xsolla updated its Web Shop and Buy Button services. Payments provider Usio Inc. said it processed 16.2 million transactions in the third quarter, a record volume. Gaming payments specialist Pavilion Payments said Barton’s Club 93 …
Read More »Toast And Uber Expand Their Relationship
Restaurant point-of-sale provider Toast Inc. has further expanded its agreement with ride-sharing technology provider Uber Technologies Inc. to help restaurants in the United States and Canada better manage digital ordering, enhance the guest experience, attract new customers, and increase sales. New tools the two companies plan to create include customer …
Read More »Paze Eyes More Expansion As It Adds Partnerships
Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, may usher in a new phase for the service in 2026. That’s the suggestion from Eric Hoffman, chief partnerships officer at EWS. “2025 was a big year in building partnerships and we’re excited to see the fruits of those efforts,” …
Read More »Coming to the U.S.: A Beefed-up Klarna Rewards Program
Banking and payments platform Klarna AB announced early Monday a global membership program featuring Premium and Max rewards levels and offering cash back and benefits related to travel. The new program is starting out in Europe but “expansion to the U.S. is planned for the coming weeks,” the payments company …
Read More »CardFlight’s Tap to Pay Move and other Digital Transactions News from 10/23/25
CardFlight Inc. announced Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available to client merchants using Worldpay for processing. Rokt Corp., an e-commerce marketing-technology company, said PayPal Holdings Inc. has started to use its services to support advertisements that appear on “thank you” pages following peer-to-peer payments. PayNearMe Inc. said it has rolled …
Read More »Restaurateur Adopts ParTech Loyalty and other Digital Transactions News from 10/22/25
PAR Technology Corp., a provider of payments technology to restaurants, said Krystal Restaurants LLC has opted to use PAR’s Punchh loyalty technology to support its recently introduced Club Krystal program. Krystal operates close to 300 locations in 11 states. Payments-technology platform Yeeld said it has expanded its surcharging service to Canada for …
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