Mobile Wallets

Baywood Hotels Inc. is making eTip’s cashless mobile-tipping technology available across its entire portfolio of properties, which include Hilton, Marriott, IHG, and Choice hotels. ETip enables consumers to digitally tip hotel workers by scanning a QR code with their mobile phone. That opens the eTip app directly in their phone’s …

PayPal Holdings Inc. announced early Monday that Alex Chriss, a long-time executive at Intuit Inc., will take over in September as chief executive, replacing Dan Schulman, who in February triggered the hunt for his successor when he announced he would retire later this year. Chriss, a 19-year veteran at Mountain …

The Waffle House restaurant system has adopted chainwide contactless payment capability, including mobile-wallet acceptance, through the Oracle Payment Cloud service. A startup called iWallet said it will adopt FedNow for mobile check deposits. The Federal Reserve launched the FedNow real-time payments service last month. MarginEdge, a bill-payments provider, launched a mobile bill-payment app for restaurant operators …

Early Warning Services LLC, which operates the Zelle peer-to-peer payment network, announced early Friday it has appointed Cameron Fowler as chief executive, effective October 2, 2023. Fowler replaces Albert Ko, who left the company in May to become CEO of Auctane, which provides shipping software and operates such brands as …

Payments-technology provider Repay Holdings Inc. reported its consumer-payments business grew its organic gross profits 16% in the quarter ended June 30, compared to the same period a year ago. Overall, the company posted organic profit growth of 12% for the quarter, compared to a year earlier. Absolute figures were not …

Debit card networks are gearing up for an expected flood of new online transactions in the wake of a Federal Reserve rule clarification that took effect more than a month ago to require that issuers enable network choice for online as well as in-person transactions. The latest example emerged late …

Block Inc’s Square merchant-processing unit late Tuesday introduced Square Go, a booking app for beauty and personal-care merchants. The app allows consumers to search for, and schedule appointments with, health and beauty merchants locally. The mobile app also suggests merchants based on a consumer’s previous booking patterns. Consumers can receive …

Marqeta Inc. late on Tuesday announced it will continue processing transactions for Block Inc.’s Cash App card product for another four years under a new agreement between the companies. The renewal will see San Francisco-based Block using Marqeta’s issuing platform through June 2027. The announcement comes days after Block reported …

BitPay Inc. expanded the payment capabilities of its cryptocurrency wallet Tuesday with inclusion of bill payment. BitPay users can now pay bills with digital currency at more than 5,000 billers, the Atlanta-based company says. To enable bill payment, BitPay has partnered with Method Financial, an Austin, Texas-based provider of embedded …

Digital-currency platform Circle Internet Financial has collaborated with Euro Coin to announce Programmable Wallets, aimed at enabling developers to embed crypto wallets in their apps. Payments platform InComm Payments announced it has acquired Zenda, a technology provider for health and benefits administration and provider of platforms for health-savings and flexible-spending accounts. Terms were not …