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Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone has lined up another point-of-sale system supporter. Tulip, a point-of-sale system maker for omnichannel and enterprise merchants, now supports the contactless payment technology via an integration with processor Adyen NV. Announced Tuesday, the integration means Tulip merchants can use iPhones to accept payments …

Clowd9, a cloud-based payment-processing platform, said it will use 3-D Secure issuer services from Netcetera to authenticate transactions and for access control services. Mastercard Inc. introduced its Mastercard Artist Accelerator program, which aims to assist fledgling music artists through nonfungible tokens and other Web3 technologies.

Five years on, the Real Time Payments network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC continues to gain new members outside of legacy banking. The latest is NorthOne, a fintech that offers financial management services for small businesses, startups, and freelancers. New York City-based NorthOne, which was founded in 2016, …

E-commerce sales in the United States during the recently completed holiday shopping season—Nov. 1 through Dec. 31— totaled $211.7 billion, a 3.5% increase from the same period a year ago, according to Adobe Inc. The total set a record for holiday-season e-commerce sales, while the year-over-year increase was larger than …

Cheq Inc. is expanding its footprint in the highly competitive stadium-payment space by adding restaurants, bars, hotels and stadiums to its roster of merchants in South Florida. The expansion comes on the heels of Cheq’s deal in 2022 with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League to be the …

As the holiday shopping season heads into the home stretch, consumer concerns over withered buying power due to inflation is expected to tamp down overall spending, according to J.D. Power’s Banking and Payments Intelligence Report. In a November survey of 4,000 retail bank customers nationwide, 40% said they expect to …

A fraud ring that appears to be based in Southeast Asia is targeting U.S. retailers and has already committed an estimated $660 million in fraud in stolen laptops, cell phones, computer chips, gaming devices, and other goods just in November, said Signifyd, an online-fraud prevention firm. Signifyd said it has been tracking …

Global processor Worldline S.A. will make Splitit, a white-label buy now, pay later provider, available to its roster of merchants and marketplaces, starting first in North America. Announced Tuesday, the integration will enable Worldline merchants to offer card-based installment payments within the existing checkout flow. Merchants can use their brand …

EzFill Holdings Inc.’s specialty is sending one of its mobile fuel trucks to a driver’s location, thus eliminating the hassle to the driver of having to get to a gas station to fill up the car or a fleet of vehicles. Now, EzFill has launched a new one-time payment service …

Merchants of all sorts found themselves converting to digital payments acceptance over the past two years in the face of the pandemic, but one niche in particular has offered a fertile field for merchant acquirers: casinos. Online and on-premise gambling has attracted payments providers large and small, including specialists like …