Visa, Mastercard Talk About Cooperating in Online Shopping

Card-network giants explore ditching their payment buttons for new shared option

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., the two largest U.S. card networks, said Wednesday that they’re planning to drop their longstanding initiatives to get online shoppers to use dedicated payment buttons.

The two payments giants instead want to create a new online option that would amount to a shared single payment button that could succeed the current pay tabs, Visa Checkout and Mastercard Masterpass.

Their...