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Real-time payments have proven value for many payment needs. Now, experts are looking at mining the potential for real time at the point of sale. The technology to enable real-time payments at the point of sale is available today. But many questions remain: Are consumers ready? Are merchants ready? Is …

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ZmBIZI’s Tap-to-Pay Smart Phone Released and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/14/21

ZmBIZI LLC released its Z2 smart phone that accepts tap-and-pay transactions without requiring an external POS terminal. The $550 smart phone was part of a Visa Tap to Phone test earlier this year and is expected to have full commercial availability in early 2022.Visa Inc.’s U.S. Spending Momentum Index fell for the second consecutive month, …

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KyckGlobal Enables Echo Health To Digitize Claims Payments

As part of its strategy to automate payouts for health-care and property-and-casualty carriers, Echo Health Inc., a provider of payment technology to insurance carriers, is partnering with KyckGlobal Inc. to enable claimants to receive payments digitally through PayPal, Venmo, push to card through Visa Direct, and the automated clearing house. …

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One Inc. Begins to Speed Insurance-Claims Payouts for Amerisure

Faster-payments providers have long identified insurance-claims payouts as a ripe market, and the business took big step in that direction with the announcement early Monday that the insurance carrier Amerisure has begun implementing ClaimsPay, a digital-payments platform from the 9-year-old fintech One Inc. The four-stage implementation is expected to replace …

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Worldpay To Process GOL Transactions and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/17/21

GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., said to be Brazil’s largest domestic airline, has chosen FIS Inc.’s Worldpay unit for payments processing in the 38 global market where the airline operates.Zum Rails, a provider of payments and open-banking software, launched anti-fraud technology for its Instant Deposit feature, which is enabled by Visa Direct.Humbl …

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Apple Cash Adds Mastercard Debit Support and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/6/21

Apple Inc. said Apple Cash users can now send Instant Transfer payments to Mastercard Inc. debit cards, reported 9to5mac.com. The service had been compatible only with Visa Inc. debit cards prior to Thursday’s announcement. Apple also said it is charging a 1.5% fee for Instant Transfer transactions, up from 1%. Instant Transfer …

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Zelle Volume up 68% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/29/21

The Zelle peer-to-peer payment network processed $120 billion on 436 million transactions in the second quarter, up 58% and 68%, respectively, year-over-year, according to network operator Early Warning Services LLC.Card-present transactions at small businesses are up 83% over the pre-Covid baseline of March 2020, according to the latest CardFlight Small Business Report. The …

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Volumes Soar for Visa As the Payments Network Looks to Its Next Move in Open Banking

The big network executives aren’t quite ready to come right out and say it, but they’re certainly coming close to declaring their systems are just about at pre-pandemic performance levels. The latest example came Tuesday afternoon, when Visa Inc.’s results for the quarter ended June 30 prompted chairman and chief …

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KyckGlobal Adds Cross-Border Payments To Its Arsenal

KyckGlobal Inc. on Monday added cross-border payment capabilities to its platform by partnering with Moneycorp, a London-based provider of foreign exchange and global payment services to individual and corporate customers.  The partnership will enable KyckGlobal to facilitate cross-border payments in more than 200 countries via wire transfers and international ACH transactions, …

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KyckGlobal Enables a Cash-Payment Option for Used-Car Dealers

Although the Covid-19 pandemic spurred many consumers to embrace digital payments, the need for cash acceptance— especially among merchants and lenders that service unbanked consumers—remains strong. To help fill that need, KyckGlobal Inc. on Tuesday announced a deal with Advanced Business Computers of America Inc. (ABCoA) to enable used-car dealers …

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