Mobile Wallets

Flexa Network Inc., a payments provider based on digital currencies, has agreed to support in-store cryptocurrency acceptance at Bealls Inc., operator of more than 660 stores in 22 states under Bealls and other brand names. The move, announced Monday afternoon, represents one of the largest planned deployments of in-store crypto …

SpotOn Transact LLC has integrated Visa Direct, a faster-payments service, into its DayCheck earned-tip payment app. The integration will allow restaurant owners to simplify tip payouts and enable restaurant employees to move tips directly to their bank accounts. San Francisco-based SpotOn says restaurant operaters are squeezed by working capital challenges …

E-commerce specialist Global-e said Shop Pay’s one-click checkout is now available for its merchants using the Shopify platform. C-store chain Circle K has partnered with Car IQ, a vehicle-based payments platform, to launch Circle K Pro Digital +, a U.S.-based payments service for fuel, tolls, and other vehicle-related payments. Payroc announced it has enabled …

Advisory firm Deloitte issued a report that forecasts authorized push payment fraud in the United States could conservatively swell to $12.4 billion in losses or more aggressively to $18.2 billion by 2028 from the 2024 tally of $8.3 billion. Payroc World Access LLC has closed on its acquisition of BlueSnap Inc., a payments-orchestration and …

Buy now, pay later lenders Klarna AB and Affirm Inc. are separately partnering with Google Inc. to enhance their technology stacks. Klarna announced early Thursday it is partnering with Google Cloud to fast-track development of consumer-centric products and marketing campaigns within the Klarna app. Google Cloud is the commercial arm …

Six months after fully revising its point-of-sale app and adding modes to enable merchants to tailor it to their needs, the acquirer is out now with what it says is its largest update to its food and beverage platform. Square, a unit of Block Inc., also released updates to Square …

The processor Worldpay said it will offer commercial and business customers of East West Bank access to point-of-sale, e-commerce, and loyalty technology under a new agreement. FIS Inc. has agreed to sell Worldpay to Global Payments Inc. in a deal that is expected to close in the first half of next year. Block Inc. has …

Global Payments Inc. announced a version of its Genius point-of-sale payments platform is available for colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, including campus dining. The U.S. Faster Payments Council will work with the Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc., a developer of standards for the U.S. financial industry, to speed development …

Loan payouts are picking up steam as a use case for instant payments, joining such applications as earned wage access, wallet funding, marketplace/gaming, and peer-to-peer payments, according to the 2025 U.S. Instant Payments Adopting Quantitative Study from the U.S. Faster Payments Council. Respondents to the study serve more than 90% of U.S. …

Visa Inc. announced early Tuesday it will launch a cross-border payments service that will rely on stablecoins to fund transfers. The service, meant ultimately as an improvement on existing transfers that require users to commit capital in advance, will run on the payments company’s Visa Direct real-time payments rails. It …