Mobile Wallets

Visa Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. said they will donate a dime to New York Cares through the month of September, up to a limit of $250,000, for each tap riders perform with a Chase Visa contactless card on subways or buses operated by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority.VPay, …

Apple Inc. will permit developers of applications for its App Store to tell customers by email that they can pay for products and services by means other than Apple’s own payment platform, according to a preliminary settlement announced Thursday. The settlement apparently will let developers skirt what are said to …

Merchant services provider LaCore Payment Technologies said it is now offering Sezzle Inc.’s buy now, pay later service to its merchants. Sezzle is integrated into LaCore’s gateway.Google Pay’s expected revamp may be delayed because of staffing issues, reported tech site ArsTechnica.com. Several Google Pay employees have left amid uncertainty about the transition to the …

Out of the gloom surrounding the U.S. economy since the onset of Covid-19 comes a report that consumer spending on credit and debit cards is not only robust, but also stronger than it was even two years ago. Dollar volume on payment cards in July was 21% higher than in …

Fiserv Inc. announced an integration between its Clover point-of-sale technology and the business-management platform Grubhub in an effort aimed at helping independent restaurants manage and fulfill online orders.Payments provider Fattmerchant Inc. said its Stax platform is working with TimeSolv, a firm-management service for law practices, to manage billing and invoicing, and process payments, …

Fiserv Inc. is rolling out payment-acceptance technology to food-and-beverage vending machines in multiple markets across Europe in a move that supports mobile wallets as well as global and local payment cards. Selecta Group, operator of the machines, says its network supports devices in 16 countries selling snacks, meals, and coffee …

As part of its strategy to be a leader in digital currencies, PayPal Holdings Inc. on Monday announced it will enable users in the United Kingdom to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency through their PayPal wallets. The move marks the first expansion of PayPal support for cryptocurrency outside the United …

Fresh off a pair of acquisitions in the Latin American market, Paysafe Group Holdings Ltd. over the weekend announced a major move into the European Continent with a deal to acquire viafintech, a neobank and payments provider based in Berlin, in an all-cash transaction. Terms were not announced. The deal …

REGO Payment Architectures Inc. said Friday it will make version 3.0 of its Mazoola mobile wallet app and virtual debit card available in the Apple Store on Aug. 27. The Mazoola wallet is designed to help parents empower their kids to learn how to manage money in a digital world …

The boom in e-commerce, which was touched off more than a year ago by the coronavirus pandemic, may be showing signs of losing steam. U.S. e-commerce sales in the second quarter totaled $222.5 billion, up 9.1% from the same quarter a year ago, according to numbers released Thursday by the …