Grocery-ordering and -delivery provider Instacart says Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc., a food wholesaler, expanded its partnership to include e-commerce and same-day delivery services to grocers that belong to the cooperative. The broader deal also includes access to Caper Carts, Instacart’s artificial intelligence-enhanced smart shopping carts. More than 800 AWG grocers …

The top 50 originating financial institutions on the automated clearing house network hit nearly 27.7 billion in payments in 2023, a 5.7% increase over 2022, Nacha says. Volume for the top 50 receiving FIs was almost 20 billion payments in 2023, a 6.4% increase from 2022. Herndon, Va.-based Nacha says …

TSG’s yearly review of more than 300 U.S. merchant acquirers is out, and there is little surprise that JPMorgan Chase & Co. retains the top spot with an estimated 2023 U.S. processing volume of $2.4 trillion. While the top three slots in the annual TSG Directory of U.S. Merchant Acquirers …

Chargebacks are always an issue for merchants. While there are numerous programs and indicators to identify fraudulent ones, detecting and managing first-party fraud—that committed by legitimate customers—can be tougher to root out. In response, Mastercard Inc. is pushing its First Party Trust Program, an artificial intelligence-based service that enables merchants …

As online shopping continues to stitch itself into consumer behavior, efforts to reduce chargebacks also advance. The latest is Riskified’s Auth Rate Enhance service that can pre-screen orders and provide more information for its customers to make a go-no-go decision on digital orders. Auth Rate Enhance, a component of Riskified’s …

Mastercard Inc. released Smart Subscriptions, a service to help issuers provide subscription-management tools to their cardholders. In related news, Recurly Inc., a subscription-services provider, released its consumer software subscription benchmark report. The Smart Subscriptions service builds on Mastercard’s Subscriptions Control product, released in 2023, to provide spend analysis, a way …

Consumer bill payments for the 10 most essential bills sum to $25,513 annually on average, according to new data from doxo inc., a bill-payments provider. Doxo’s “2024 U.S. Household Bill Pay Report” says that total corresponds to 34% of a consumer’s income spent across mortgage or rent, auto loans, utilities, …

With 29 days until Major League Baseball’s opening day on March 28, the New York Yankees have selected Shift4 Payments Inc. as the team’s concessions and retail sales point-of-sale system provider. Announced Wednesday, the deal will see Shift4 payment technology deployed at Yankee Stadium and at the George M. Steinbrenner …

A new fast-food and beverage concept called CosMc’s is using the Xenial cloud-based point-of-sale system from Global Payments Inc. CosMc’s is a beverage-first restaurant developed by McDonald’s Corp. with one location so far. Xenial, a Global Payments company, supplies it enterprise-level POS system to CosMc’s. Xenial was originally part of …

When it comes to online checkout, consumers like using digital wallets. Seventy-two percent of them value digital-payment tools like digital wallets to make the online checkout easier, says Paze in its inaugural Paze Pulse report. Paze is an upcoming digital wallet from Early Warning Services LLC. Backed by seven large …