Mobile Wallets

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s latest wallet initiative, PayPal World, will go live this fall and aims to reach more than 2 billion consumers, the company’s chief executive said early Tuesday. Alex Chriss followed up on an earlier announcement of the initiative by stressing how the venture will tie together five of …

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Monday launched Pay with Crypto, a cross-border payment option that instantly converts cryptocurrencies to stablecoins or fiat currencies. The new payment option provides merchants and consumers a unified platform that connects fiat and digital payments and supports more than 100 cryptocurrencies and crypto wallets, such as …

Embedded lending is rewriting the rules of how payments work, eliminating the need for separate credit approvals and enabling built-in financing directly into digital wallets and checkout processes. In the past year, 45% of Gen Z and Millennials used BNPL services, and these numbers are expected to rise. The global …

Samsung Electronics America is partnering with Splitit USA Inc. to offer installment payments to Samsung wallet users. The new feature will enable Samsung wallet users to make in-store purchases using an existing Visa or Mastercard card in their wallet and pay for the purchase over time. Samsung wallet users will …

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Wednesday launched PayPal World, a series of partnerships that will connect digital wallets outside the United States to its platform and enable interoperability with PayPal and Venmo wallets at the point of sale. PayPal World, which will go live this fall, will enable users to pay …

It’s a busy time in the point-of-sale arena as three vendors—GrabScanGo, Square, and Verifone—note new products, customers, and features. GrabScanGo, the product name for GSG AveriGo LLC, says it has made its self-checkout platform a plug-and-play installation. Cerritos, Calif.-based GrabScanGo says the self-checkout platform, already in use in hotel brands such …

Affirm Inc. said it will offer its installment-payment services to customers of New Look Vision Group in Canada. The company operates 475 stores in Canada and the United States. Payments platform Payroc announced it has agreed to acquire LedgerPay Inc., which does business as PayiQ. With the acquisition, Payroc says it will gain …

As more and more attention is drawn to cryptocurrency, crypto users are ready to use their holdings to make every day purchases and play games, finds a new report from Bitget Wallet. Released Monday, the report finds that, globally, 36% of respondents want to use their crypto wallets to make …

Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale technology unit announced it is entering the health-care market with Clover PracticePay. Clover worked with Rectangle Health, a developer of payments software for the health-care industry, on the launch. Mastercard Inc. and American Airlines said they have agreed to extend a longstanding agreement under which Mastercard supports a cobranded …

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the GENIUS Act, a bill aimed at regulating stablecoins, giving the nascent digital currency a boost as a mainstream payment option. The GENIUS (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins) Act is intended to provide a legal structure for stablecoins and enhance …