Mobile Commerce

First-party fraud, often called friendly fraud, is the bane of online retailers. Chargeback management provider Chargebacks911 says friendly fraud accounts for 43.8% of total chargebacks in its 2026 Field Report. Relying on responses from more than 250 merchants, the report also finds 83.4% of enterprise merchants reported an increase in …

The installment-payments platform Affirm Holdings Inc. and online commerce service Shopify late Thursday announced they have expanded their 5-year-old collaboration, Shop Pay Installments, to Australia. The service, which lets consumers use the Shop Pay button to check out on e-commerce sites and then pay over time with Affirm, is active …

Nasdaq Verafin, a developer of fraud-prevention technology, and Q6 Cyber, a supplier of fraud intelligence, have paired to offer a service to financial institutions that the parties say helps identify and respond faster to scam threats on the dark Web as they are developing. The partnership, announced early Thursday, is …

Neighborhoods, a service launched by Block Inc. in October to connect its sellers with its Cash App users, has added 30,000 sellers since the end of June. Block, and its Square acquiring unit, intended for Neighborhoods to create a local commerce network for both merchants and consumers. Neighborhoods provides sellers …

Priority Technology Holdings Inc. announced within a two-day span a processor acquisition and a deal to process ticket payments for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. The Alpharetta, Ga.-based processor said early Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Convenient Payments, which does business as IntelliPay, a privately …

New research from Coresight Research and point-of-sale provider Aptos finds that, despite more than 20 years since the first cloud-based point-of-sale system debuted, many retailers still have yet to make the move fully to such systems. In the “Retail POS Modernization: Strategic and Financial Case for Transformation” report, commissioned by …

The combination will expand Israel-based Nayax’s reach by adding the 250,000 parking spaces San Diego-based IPS controls in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The locations include city street spaces as well as college-campus and commercial slots. IPS manages the spaces through smart …

Fraud-detection provider Accertify said it has gained HIPAA compliance, allowing the company to offer more services to health-care organizations. Bluefin Payment Systems LLC said it now offers point-of-sale products for card-present payments integrated with Visa Acceptance Solutions.  Centerbase, a software provider to law firms, said it has integrated the electronic billing technology BillSync …

OnePay, the financial-services company majority owned by Walmart Inc., is adding support for Apple Inc.’s wallet for its credit cards, enabling cardholders to use their cards to make Apple Pay transactions. The OnePay debit card has supported Apple Pay since 2022. Adding Apple Pay support coincides with Walmart enabling contactless …

An Australia-based payments processor and rewards player is launching in the U.S, market on the back of $28 million in fresh investor funding. PayRewards, which specializes in small businesses, says it will offer rewards on a wide range of corporate spending, including automated clearing house transactions as well as credit …