Mobile Wallets

As consumers return to physical stores, Splitit USA Inc., a buy now, pay later provider, announced it is making its service available in-store and including availability with Apple Pay and Google Pay.Fly Now Pay Later, a United Kingdom-based fintech, announced a deal with Cross River Bank in New Jersey that will …

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s decision to bring its Zettle point-of-sale technology to the U.S. market may not surprise observers, but the move presents some formidable challenges, chiefly in the form of the existing competition, some observers say. At the same time, they add, Zettle brings a potent brand that fills a …

ParkMobile LLC Thursday expanded its partnership with parking-lot operator The Car Park to Raleigh, Asheville, and Boone, North Carolina. Previously, The Car Park worked with another payment provider in those cities. The deal also builds on an existing relationship The Car Park has with ParkMobile in Tampa, Boise, Estes Park, …

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) options have become a staple in the E-commerce marketplace, mostly because they provide merchants and their customers an attractive and flexible alternative to credit cards. This has proven particularly appealing to younger shoppers such as Millennials, or Generation Z consumers up to 24 years old. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems NV Corp. has acquired Clique Payments Inc., a provider of cloud-based software, for undisclosed terms. The deal will allow APPS to extend its integrations to include QuickBooks, FreshBooks, Xero, Sage, and other programs. The company supports more than 20 payment gateways.MoneyGram International Inc. said it has raised $97.6 million …