Mobile Commerce

Slope, a provider of buy now, pay later solutions for business-to-business transactions, announced early Thursday it will use Marqeta Inc.’s card-issuing platform to issue a B2B credit card that features BNPL payment options. The card is expected to make it easier for businesses to manage purchases and cash flow by …

Visa Inc.’s move to speed up its Visa Direct service to no more than one minute, starting in April, is likely to cement the global card network’s place in the payments industry’s steady movement toward real-time transfers, some observers say. The network, which announced the move early Thursday, says it …

Canada-based processor Nuvei Corp. announced an expansion of its Google Pay offering to merchants throughout Latin America. The company already offers the wallet in the U.S., European, Asia-Pacific, and Australian markets. Grocery e-commerce platform eGrowcery said it and Forage, a payments provider that can process online EBT SNAP payments, are working on a service …

SurgePays Inc. is integrating its ClearLine marketing platform with Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale technology set. The integration will enable small and mid-size merchants to deliver marketing and customer-engagement strategies at the point-of-sale. The integration adds value to independent sales organizations’ offerings by providing advanced marketing capabilities at the point of …

Restaurant server tips averaged 18.8% in the third quarter, unchanged from the second quarter, according to data from Toast Inc.’s Q3 2024 Restaurant Trends Report. The research gathered data from approximately 127,000 locations served by the Toast payments platform. Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Seller Central will integrate AI-based payments and financial-management tools from Intuit Inc. …

DataVisor Inc., a fraud- and risk-management solutions provider, early Monday announced the launch of an artificial intelligence-based platform that measures hot spot, distinct count, and high-frequency data in real time. The ability to measure these three data points in real time helps speeds the identification of potential fraud threats, which …

Google Inc. has sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following the CFPB’s action Friday asserting federal supervision of the company’s Google Pay wallet. In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the same day the CFPB acted, the tech giant argues the case targets a payment service …

Consumers holding Bank of America Corp. credit and debit cards now have access to the Paze online checkout following BofA’s  declaration that all of its eligible cards are now enabled for the e-commerce service. Paze is an online-checkout service developed by Early Warning Services LLC. It is designed to provide …

Financial firms live and die by their reputation. While we know that, with credit unions, insurance companies, and holding companies, the result of a cyberattack could mean funding challenges, reputational damage, and even insolvency, what many don’t know is that, today, around 70% of business risks enter through an endpoint …

Hospitality point-of-sale company Toast Inc. has expanded its partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. to enable restaurants using Uber’s delivery service to reach customers through more channels and lower their delivery costs. Toast will integrate its platform with Uber Direct, Uber’s on-demand delivery platform that enables businesses to take orders through their Web …