Mobile Wallets

Fanatics Betting & Gaming, which launched its first retail sports-betting location in January and its mobile sportsbook in May, will use the card-payment and alternative-payment methods offered by Paysafe Ltd. Announced Monday, the integration will enable U.S. bettors on the Fanatics platform to make deposits and receive payouts in a …

Unattended payments and software specialist Cantaloupe Inc. boosted its roster of customers in its fiscal 2024 first quarter, which helped increase the company’s revenue to $62.7 million, up 8.5% from $57.8 million in the 2023 first quarter that ended Sept. 30. Malvern, Pa.-based Cantaloupe said the number of active customers …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau late Tuesday said it is expanding its efforts to increase oversight of large, non-bank technology firms with a proposed rule that would subject companies that issue digital wallets to the same regulations as those that cover wallets from financial institutions. The proposed rule, which would …

FIS Inc. is selling a majority stake in its massive Worldpay transaction-processing operation, but that doesn’t mean the company is ditching the payments business, its chief executive made plain early Tuesday. “We have not moved totally away from that,” Stephanie Ferris told equity analysts during an early-morning call to review …

Restaurant-management platform provider OpenTable Inc. is offering 1,000 vouchers for Uber rides to diners eating at restaurants participating in San Francisco’s Restaurant Week. The promotion is intended to encourage visitors and locals to dine out during the event, which actually runs for two weeks from Nov. 3 through Nov. 16. …

According to recent research, American households carried a whopping $17.1 trillion in total debt as of the second quarter of 2023. The herculean effort to become debt-free continues to weigh on the shoulders of millions of Americans. We’ve seen the landscape of the U.S. workforce change drastically over the past …

Gift cards are becoming a popular employee incentive, Fiserv Inc.’s “Q4 2023 Gift Card Survey” finds. Some 80% of respondents say they would prefer a gift card as a reward from their employer, while 9% say they would prefer an event or outing, and 11% would prefer some other type …

The Western Union Co. announced customers will be able to send money via the company’s digital service directly to Visa and Mastercard cards through an integration with Paysend, a card-to-card payments platform. Lightspeed Commerce Inc. launched several new features including artificial intelligence-assisted menu creation, better insights into popular items, staff performance tools, …

More than four years after it began testing its own blockchain-based stablecoin, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is processing $1 billion in transaction volume per day for JPM Coin, Takis Georgakopoulos, JPMorgan’s global head of payments, told Bloomberg News during an interview. Created in 2019 and launched in 2020, JPM Coin …

The Federal Reserve Board is set to revisit its longstanding limit on debit card interchange on Wednesday, and most observers expect the Fed to lower it. But ask Visa Inc. about the matter—as analysts did Tuesday afternoon during the network’s September-quarter earnings call—and its top executives outwardly at least profess …