Mobile Commerce

Verifone Inc. announced early Thursday it has been awarded a U. S. patent on technology that protects point-of-sale terminals and unattended payment devices from card skimming. The move comes as estimates indicate skimming losses grew 5% last year, reaching approximately $1 billion in the U.S. market. In skimming attacks, bad …

A New York state lawsuit filed against Early Warning Services LLC and its Zelle peer-to-peer platform can continue, a judge ruled this week. Filed in August, the suit alleged Zelle failed to protect users from fraud. Zelle intends to appeal, Reuters reported. Forty-five percent of U.S. households expect to use a buy now, pay …

Restaurant point-of-sale system maker Qu released Qu Pay, a service that combines payment processing, guest identity, order intelligence, and capital access into a single platform. Restaurant chain Roy Rogers was among the first to adopt Qu Pay. MNEE Pay, a stablecoin payment platform found that 62% of U.S. stablecoin holders have converted …

Stablecoins have been on payments companies’ radar screens for years, but only recently has the digital currency gained the credibility needed to move processors, merchants, and users toward using stablecoins for everyday payments. The latest example of this emerged early Tuesday with an announcement from Mesh, a San Francisco-based crypto …

A-Comm Technologies Inc. said its draft A-Comm Evidence Protocol for agentic commerce is available for public comment through Aug. 14. The protocol supports a record of evidence to establish the validity of AI-initiated consumer transactions. Software-testing platform Testlio said of all the high- to medium-severity software issues reported in its 2026 Software Quality …

Visa Inc. has been involved in various stages of stablecoin processing for the last three years, but this week the card network stepped up its involvement with the cryptocurrency, launching Visa Stablecoin Platform. The new service is starting out in beta testing with “select clients,” Visa says, as companies determine …

Everyone has bills to pay, and two payments companies are making moves to make that chore as easy as possible. Repay Holdings Corp. is working with SBT, or Solutions by Text, to enable financial-services providers to offer payment via text messages. Separately, InvoiceCloud Inc. is working with public-sector software specialist …

Companies looking for a faster way to accept payments in fiat currencies but settle in stablecoins may have a new option in an integration announced Wednesday between XDC Tech and Bridge, the stablecoin unit of the payments-technology firm Stripe. Under the arrangement, merchants can accept dollars or other fiat currencies …

MagTek Inc. said Winston POS completed an integration with MagTek’s MMS Dyna devices and the Magensa Payment Protection Gateway. ESW announced it has agreed to handle various cross-border operations, including payments, for KnitWell Group, whose brands include Ann Taylor, Chico’s, and Lane Bryant. Socure Inc. released Remote Verifier, a service to enable organizations …