Kate Fitzgerald

In its quest to supply small businesses with services that go beyond payments, First Data Corp.'s Clover subsidiary is extending e-commerce website support to its merchant clients beginning next month.

An e-commerce technology unit eBay sold last fall after separating from PayPal has reformulated itself as Radial, tailoring its services for online merchants that want to make the leap to omnichannel commerce.

The burgeoning market for pay-at-the-table solutions is drawing interest from many traditional payment industry players tackling restaurants’ problems, but one newcomer is gaining traction in the niche by making the consumer its primary focus.

The technology behind the snazzy new “bots” Facebook is rolling out for its Messenger chat app has enormous potential to internalize payments within social media experiences like shopping, travel and entertainment in new, more relevant ways.

Cross-border educational payments provider Flywire has added services in Japan, where there are nearly 200,000 international students enrolled in local schools and universities.

Motorists in the Netherlands will soon be able to pay for fuel purchases before pulling into the gas station through a feature from the Dutch bank Rabobank’s MyOrder, which already supports a variety of mobile payments use cases.

Citing growing social and economic pressure to speed processing, the European Payments Council wants to enable real-time payments between the 34 countries in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).

Deutsche Bank AG is prepping a new tool for its corporate customers that aims to streamline international business-to-business payments for companies using SAP’s enterprise business software.

Allied Wallet, a London-based online payments processor, completed a payments gateway integration with Marco Fine Arts Inc., enabling the printing specialist’s customers to accept payments in 196 countries, the companies said April 11.

Nowait is adding payments to an app that manages customer wait lists at restaurants that don’t take reservations.

Cutting out every step except one—opening the app—Domino's Pizza has introduced what may be the most streamlined approach yet to ordering and paying for delivery with its Zero-Click Ordering app, which launched this week for iOS and Android.

Time has run out for “knuckle-busters,” the clunky contraptions merchants needed for decades to accept card transactions, but their legacy—the raised characters embossed on payment cards—is proving difficult to stamp out.

Visa Inc. recently established a 12-year lifecycle for EMV chips in payment cards, and CPI Card Group is among the first card manufacturers to enact the new policy, eliminating the need for issuers to get EMV chips in Visa cards approved every three years.

When Starbucks’ new loyalty program rules go into effect this month, it will set the stage for a wave of new payments innovations with intriguing benefits for the coffee giant and its payments processing partner, JPMorgan Chase.

More than two-thirds of all U.S.-issued MasterCard consumer credit cards are now chip-enabled and the number of merchants accepting EMV transactions continues to climb, MasterCard said March 31.

Sweden-based Klarna has racked up solid success in Europe over the past several years with its buy-now, pay-later online retail services, but to crack the U.S. market it's going back to the laboratory.

Bank of America now enables customers to directly enroll credit and debit cards in Visa Checkout within the bank’s online portal, simplifying the signup process for Visa’s streamlined e-commerce checkout service, the bank said March 30.

Fallout from widespread data breaches hurts many payment industry sectors, but this year's tax-filing season brings fresh pain for the prepaid card industry, with new details out connecting prepaid cards with some of last year's biggest tax refund fraud busts.

Many moons after the U.S. payment industry adopted a largely chip-and-signature approach to EMV instead of chip-and-PIN security that’s standard elsewhere, rising merchant chargebacks are leading some to question the wisdom of PIN-free payments.

Samsung is fond of using cash rewards to drive Samsung Pay signups, offering consumers $25 to $100 in recent months for enrolling a payment card in the handset maker's mobile wallet. But that strategy is not a fit for all card issuers, according to the fine print in the latest Samsung Pay promotion.