Mobile Commerce

Paysafe Group Holdings Ltd. continued its push Tuesday into making processing online gambling transactions a larger part of its business by expanding a partnership with FOX Bet, a U.S. online and mobile sports-betting platform operated by Flutter Entertainment plc.  Under the terms of the deal, which follows a deal earlier this …

Buy now, pay later specialist Afterpay Ltd. expanded its points-based Pulse Rewards program to all users. The company claims 17 million users in North America.Rival BNPL specialist Klarna AB announced it will offer financing to client merchants through business-finance platform Liberis Ltd.Rectangle Health, a payments provider specializing in doctors’ offices, is working with DoctorLogic …

As the popularity of using quick-response codes for payment at the point-of-sale grows, the trend toward offering the technology to software developers and merchants has gained momentum and now includes small and mid-sized processors. Omnichannel payment gateway Cardknox Development Inc. on Monday became the latest processor to enter the fray, …

Consumers’ use of digital channels to pay bills continues to rise even as the Covid-19 pandemic begins to ease, according to a study by ACI Worldwide Inc. In looking at how consumers’ use of digital channels, such as Web sites and mobile apps, has grown during the first half of …

Plenty of reports since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic have documented how consumers have responded by shifting to e-commerce—some for the first time—but few reports break out the impact on the mobile segment of that number. It turns out the pandemic has spurred considerable shopping by mobile-phone users, as …

Buy now, pay later specialist Afterpay Ltd. said it is now available through its app to customers of Amazon, CVS, Dell, Kroger, Macy’s, Nike, Target, Walgreen’s, and other major brands.EVO Payments Inc. has added automated clearing house processing to its PayFabric gateway. EVO’s ACH processing can be integrated into a merchant’s Web site …

Shift4 Payments Inc. on Tuesday announced it had reached a key milestone as it is now processing at least $1 billion per week in what it calls end-to-end payments volume. Shift4 earns more on end-to-end volume, which it processes itself, than on gateway traffic, which it passes off to other …

PayPal Holdings Inc. is raising its online merchant rates in the midst of a boom in e-commerce but also reducing some fees as it keeps a wary eye on rivals such as Square Inc. and Stripe Inc. The new rates, which PayPal announced Friday, cover a sweeping range of transaction …

Payments provider E-Complish announced it acquired an outstanding interest in Regal Technologies LLC, which provide automated clearing house and other payment services.Payments provider Shift4 Payments Inc. said it will process transactions for BetMGM, an online gaming and sports-betting platform.Payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. said it is working with the Foundation for California Community Colleges to …

For all the publicity cryptocurrencies generate, consumers and merchants are still left wondering when the digital money can be used as a medium of exchange rather than simply be seen as an investment asset.  The latest effort to answer that question comes from a 3-year-old, Romania-based company called ZoidPay, which …