Mobile Commerce

PAR Technology Corp. said it has signed Pizza Factory for its PAR POS, PAR Ordering, and other PAR technologies to be installed at all of the restaurant chain’s 110 stores. Zip Co Ltd. announced it intends to support Stripe Inc.’s Shared Payment Tokens for checkout via AI agents. Pacific Gas & Electric is …

Michael Lyons, chief executive of Fiserv Inc. since May last year, is leaving the big processor to take on the role of chief executive at Truist Financial Corp. Fiserv announced co-president Takis Georgakopoulos has succeeded Lyons as CEO and member of the board of directors, effective immediately. That appointment is expected …

The Knot Worldwide, a marketplace for wedding technology, said it added Venmo as a payment option on its Wedding Registry, allowing users to send money as gifts via bank account, debit card, or Venmo balance. Venmo is a unit of PayPal Holdings Inc. Glia, an AI provider for banks, unveiled Glia AI Outreach, a …

When Zelle launched, consumers were enamored with the ability to send and receive instant, frictionless payments without leaving their banking app. Fraudsters took notice. Social-engineering scams quickly exploited Zelle’s speed and irreversibility, leaving banks, regulators, and consumers tangled in years of disputes over a deceptively simple question: Who was responsible? …

Visa Inc. announced multiple technological initiatives this week that aim to enhance the roles of artificial intelligence, stablecoins and tokens in payments, including usage of the ChatGPT AI program. The plethora of announcements came at the Visa Payments Forum 2026 in San Francisco. “AI is transforming the front end of commerce,” Jack …

JetPay, a payments platform specializing in charter flights, has agreed to work with fiat and stablecoin payments platform Nuvion to speed cross-border payments for bookings. Xplor Technologies, a payments-technology provider, announced it has acquired Bitlancer, a developer of software for payroll and other functions aimed at fitness businesses. Bank of …

Payments executives who may be hoping that a court ruling Tuesday will put an end to years of bitter wrangling over card-acceptance costs are likely to be disappointed, experts tell Digital Transactions News. “This does not end the argument. It just stifles it,” says Cliff Gray, principal at Gray Consulting …

For the better part of two decades, I’ve watched the payments industry evolve from a straightforward utility into a labyrinth of technical complexity. Merchant fee structures today are no longer just the cost of doing business. They are a volatile variable that can quietly erode a company’s bottom line. As …

Mastercard announced Agent Pay for Machines, a system for the initiation, orchestration, and settlement of payments conducted at high speed between AI agents. The network is collaborating with more than 30 companies on the initiative, including Adyen, Global Payments, Stripe, and BVNK, a stablecoin platform it has agreed to acquire for $1.8 …

The payments platform Klarna AB may be a leading provider of buy now, pay later lending, but it is seeing increasing opportunity in other banking services. Early Tuesday, it launched savings accounts in the U.S. market. In its announcement, the company calls the move “a natural next step” following its …