Two payments companies are tapping into consumers’ affinity for texting—more than 6 billion SMS text messages are sent daily, according to The Small Business Blog—with a bill-pay service and a program for merchants. First, Detroit-based Diversified Data Processing & Consulting Inc., known as DivDat, added a text-to-pay feature to its …
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Vetsource Adds Payments Acceptance; Headwinds for Bitcoin’s Rebound; Bitcoin Bill Pay Enabled
Bitcoin Bill Pay Enabled And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/20/23
The cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin of America announced users can pay their utility bills at kiosks operated by the company in Illinois and Texas by converting their virtual currency holdings into dollars at the machines. Samsung Electronics Canada launched a new version of its Samsung Galaxy S23 Series of mobile phones in that country, with …
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Paymentus Partners With Citizens to Provide Real-Time Bill Payments
Citizens Financial Group is partnering with Paymentus Corp., a Charlotte, N.C., provider of bill-payment processing, to offer real-time electronic bill payment and money-transfer services for retail banking customers nationwide. Citizens will be rolling out Paymentus’s Bill Center and Loan Payments products. Bill Center provides users with a view of their bills …
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Inflation Woes Cause Bill Payment Worry Among 86% of Consumers, doxo Finds
As costs continue to increase across the country, many Americans worry about their bill-payment obligations, with 86% concerned about the inflationary impact, found a new survey from doxo, a bill-payment services company. In the report, “The Impact of Inflation on Paying Household Bills in the New Year,” doxo found that …
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MoneyGram Links to CellPay for Bill Pay And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/28/22
MoneyGram International Inc. announced a partnership with bill-payment platform CellPay to expand bill-pay options for MoneyGram users while expanding acceptance for MoneyGram’s service to more than 30,000 billers. Some 3.46% of U.S. consumers opened a new credit card in November, down from 3.7% in November 2021, according to the December 2022 …
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