Payments

Businesses requiring customers to show proof of vaccination could streamline verification by incorporating inoculation records into wallet apps that patrons already have on their phones.

Meta Financial Group’s next CEO, Brett Pharr, is expected to keep the company's prepaid and digital banking strategy on track.

The bank is taking a majority stake in a VW unit that enables drivers to use their dashboards to pay for such services as gas or parking. It's a recognition of the innovation taking place in the automotive sector.

JPMorgan Chase is buying a majority stake in Volkswagen AG’s payments platform, extending its services further into the auto industry.

PayPal Holdings said it will acquire the Japanese upstart Paidy for 300 billion yen ($2.7 billion) as it seeks to deepen a push into buy now/pay later products.

Aiia brings thousands of banks to the card network's global open-banking platform.

The creators hope CU Offers, which lists discounts at local and national businesses, will attract new members and strengthen ties with existing ones. But observers are skeptical that it will drive real growth or inspire frequent use.

The bill-payments company Doxo is bringing more than 100,000 utilities and other billers to the technology firm InComm's retail network to make it easier for consumers to pay bills in person.

The payments firm Boku is uniting hundreds of fragmented mobile apps to compete with Visa and Mastercard for unbanked consumers in different regions of the world.

The bank, which helped launch the real-time network for peer-to-peer payments, is trying to duplicate that success by helping corporate clients process certain transactions instantly with wholesale partners and, in some cases, retail customers.