Mobile Commerce

Retailers looking to quickly set up an e-commerce site with integral payments acceptance can now use Famous.ai, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to do so. Launched by Palm Beach, Fla.-based Famous Labs, the service enables business owners to design an online store using plain-language descriptors. The end result, Famous …

Chime Financial Inc., a banking-services fintech, unveiled Chime Prime, a rewards platform for customers who use Chime as their primary checking account. Users must receive at least $3,000 each month in qualifying direct deposits to be eligible for rewards, which include 5% cash back on certain spending using the Chime …

As artificial intelligence continues to work its way into more facets of commerce, consumers and businesses may not be ready to go all in just yet. That day may come, however, if a report from Visa Inc. and another from Aevi prove accurate. First, Aevi, a Germany-based payments platform, found …

Fraud-detection service Sift said its Sift Global Network saw transaction volume increase 18% in 2025, though payment fraud attempt rates held at about 3.25%, despite new fraud opportunities arising from new payment methods emerging in the market. The company credits better transaction monitoring and controls. The digital financial-services provider SoFi Technologies Inc. has launched SoFi …

Visa Inc. released six new or updated dispute-resolution services, a year after acquirers became subject to the then-new Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program. Known as VAMP, the program, according to Visa, consolidated five fraud and dispute programs and reduced 38 distinct remediation processes into one program. According to Oscar Bello, Chargeback …

A fintech startup called CARD91 launched VerifyIQ, an AI-based identity-verification tool for card issuance, account opening, and other applications. BitRail LLC, a provider of digital wallets and payment technology, said it has added new services in partnership with the processor PaymentLock Inc., including branded online checkout and pay-now buttons, a virtual terminal, …

U.S. consumers are nothing if not habit-driven. New research from Global Payments Inc. suggests that credit and debit cards accounted for 49% of all online shopping and 71% of in-store shopping in 2025, as reported in the 2026 edition of the Global Payments Report. That is virtually unchanged from 49% …

Firms looking to bring stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies into the payments mainstream are working a variety of angles, as illustrated by news on multiple fronts that emerged early Tuesday. Convera USA LLC, a business-to-business payments platform and provider of foreign-exchange services, announced it will work with Ripple Labs Inc. to …

Repay Holdings Corp. said it has agreed to pay approximately $372 million to acquire Kubra Data Transfer LTD., a provider of bill-payment technology with more than 250 clients. The payment will be financed with cash on hand and debt financing, Repay said. Payway Inc., a developer of payment software, said its …