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As Users Seek More Choices, PayNearMe Adds PayPal And Venmo To Its Bill Pay Platform

Responding to demand from consumers and billers for digital bill-payment options, electronic billing and payment platform provider PayNearMe Inc. on Tuesday announced the addition of PayPal and Venmo to its payment options. A recent study by PayNearMe revealed that 43% of respondents rated the convenience of using PayPal to pay …

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BIM Launches BuyPass ACH Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/16/22

Payments-technology firm Buy It Mobility launched BuyPass, a platform aimed at allowing merchants to more quickly launch automated clearing house and merchant-branded payments programs. BIM is working with network capabilities and virtual card technology from Discover Network to reduce the time and cost for merchant integration.Transaction-security firm Forter launched Smart Payments, a technology that uses the …

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FIS’s Top Brass Looks for Big Results Among Small Sellers Following the Payrix Deal

FIS Inc.’s acquisition of Payrix Solutions LLC, announced Monday, comes as e-commerce is booming and as payments platforms are weaving payments capabilities into the software they’re selling to online merchants. The deal will also help FIS, known for its processing capabilities for enterprises, reach small and medium-size online sellers, top …

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ACI PayAfter BNPL Service Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/15/22

ACI Worldwide Inc. announced ACI PayAfter, a buy now, pay later service that provides merchants access to more than 70 BNPL providers via a single integration. “ACI PayAfter gives consumers one BNPL option—ACI PayAfter—displayed at checkout, one application form, and a single credit check, all while providing access to multiple financing …

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Epos Now’s New App Links U.S. Third-Party Delivery Platforms With Restaurants

With online ordering capabilities now table stakes for restaurants, Epos Now, a London-based provider of cloud-based software, announced Monday it is rolling out its Epos Now Delivery application for restaurants in the United States. The decision to launch Epos Now Delivery in the U.S. market was prompted by the massive …

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Paysafe Extends Its Reach in U.S. Sports Betting With Deals in Louisiana And Oregon

The major United Kingdom-based payments processor Paysafe Ltd. has extended its reach in the U.S. sports-betting market, announcing early Monday deals to support bettors’ deposits by credit or debit card in Louisiana and Oregon. Driving Paysafe’s latest gambit in mobile sports betting includes contracts with venue-operator Caesars Entertainment Inc. and betting …

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F1 Payments Adopts Corvia Moniker and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/14/22

Four-year-old payments provider F1 Payments announced it has changed its name to Corvia, effective immediately.Electronic funds transfer network Shazam announced it is offering DocuCommand, a document-management service, to client banks and credit unions.Mastercard Inc. said it expanded its partnership with Fearless Fund, a venture capital fund created by women of color for women of …

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GoDaddy Payments Touts Early Growth and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/11/22

GoDaddy Inc. said its newly formed GoDaddy Payments unit has sold more than 1,000 point-of-sale devices and taken in “tens of thousands” of applications for the service from customers of the firm’s Web services. GoDaddy in September released a countertop payment terminal and mobile card reader, following the launch of GoDaddy Payments in June. …

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Fintech Fyncr Looks to Disrupt Bill Payment With an App That Aggregates Credit Card Bills

In a bid to make it easier for consumers to pay myriad credit card bills each month, a startup called Fyncr Inc. on Thursday launched a bill-payment app that allows users to aggregate and pay their credit card bills in one application.  With the Fyncr app, credit card holders can …

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COMMENTARY: QR Codes for Payments Are Getting More Sophisticated

That visual, machine-interface technology we all know from the grocery store is experiencing a renaissance. The first item to be marked with a Universal Product Code or barcode tracks back more than forty years. But now the technology is brand new again, expanded in form to the quick-response (QR) code …

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