Mobile Commerce

Surcharging compliance, once the sole domain of card brands, has spread into a patchwork quilt of state regulations that is making software providers and their payments partners feel the squeeze. The issue has little to do with the card brands, which altered their rules in 2013 to allow surcharging on …

Exodus Movement Inc. has launched Exodus Checkout, which allows businesses to accept dollar-denominated stablecoins. The rollout is starting in Argentina, with plans to expand across Latin America. The launch is taking place in partnership with DGO, the streaming platform for DirecTV in Latin America. The move comes as stablecoins—digital currency …

Consumers in New York City have a new option for canceling their online subscriptions with new rules issued by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani becoming effective Thursday, Oct. 1. The click-to-cancel rules require subscription providers to make it as easy to cancel as it was to sign up. A similar federal …

Fiserv Inc.’s digital-asset platform went live on Thursday with Roughrider Coin, a stablecoin from Bank of North Dakota intended to ease money movement among banks in that state. The development comes after Fiserv announced in June last year it would build the platform to address growing interest among financial institutions …

E-commerce payments provider FastSpring announced it has introduced Cash App Pay as a payment method for its checkout. Block Inc. launched Cash App Pay on Square in 2021 and extended it to external sites the next year. Grocery chain The Kroger Co. launched its Kroger Rewards World Elite Mastercard, a credit card offering rewards good for …

As consumers ready for the holiday shopping season, many are making budgets a priority, according to new PayPal Holdings Inc. data. Meanwhile, Etsy, a popular e-commerce site for crafted goods, renewed its seller payout deal with Payoneer. PayPal says its 2026 Holiday Shopping Survey, which canvassed 2,005 U.S. adults in …

How common will agentic payments become, and how fast? Predictions vary, of course, but tech companies are releasing new advances in the autonomous technology almost daily. In the latest example, AppZen early Wednesday unveiled Autonomous Cards, intended for corporate card programs. According to the San Jose, Calif.-based company, the new …

The persistent need to provide the latest payment-acceptance tools and the pressure to keep an acquirer’s brand front and center often exist in parallel. North, a Troy, Mich.-based acquirer, is marking its launch of Embedded Checkout by North while competitor Kurv renews its sponsorship of the Cleveland Browns. North says …

Toast, known for its point-of-sale payments technology for restaurants, has launched Toast Fuel to support convenience stores in accepting payments in-store and at the pump. The expansion, which includes both retail and foodservice transactions, will enable all payments to be handled on a single platform, Toast says. C-stores sell an …

Bank of America Corp. said its transaction volume flowing on the RTP network, an instant payment service operated by The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, increased 48% from January through July compared with the same period in 2025. Much of that is attributed to RTP’s transaction limit increase to $10 …