Paysafe Ltd. has agreed to sell its direct marketing payment processing business, including reseller and merchant contracts, to Kort Payments, a company run by Joel Leonoff, Paysafe’s founder and former chief executive. Terms were not announced. Paysafe said this business “consists of direct marketing and other card-not-present volume in both complex …
Read More »Square’s Funny Restaurant Pitch and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/10/25
Acquirer Square released a new video series called “Running a Restaurant Is No Joke” that uses humor to highlight how Square can help restaurant operators. Now live on Square’s Web site, the series also will appear in various media and social outlets. RedotPay, a digital-currency payments platform, said it is working with …
Read More »Affirm Revenue up 47% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/7/25
Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Holdings Inc. reported $866.4 million in revenue for its fiscal second quarter ending Dec. 31, up 46.4% from $591.1 million in the year prior quarter. With a profit of $80.4 million, Affirm reversed last year’s quarterly loss of $166.9 million. Among other metrics for the quarter, …
Read More »Another Step for Pay by Bank and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/6/25
Trustly, an open-banking specialist, will work with payments specialist Spreedly to offer pay-by-bank services to merchants. ACI Worldwide Inc. will work with Banfico, a provider of technology for open banking and regulatory compliance, to help banks and payment service providers in Europe comply with confirmation of payee and verification of payee …
Read More »Checkbook Adds Visa Direct and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/5/25
Payments platform Checkbook said its users can now deposit funds in real time through Visa Direct to fund bank accounts connected to more than 4 billion debit cards. Merchant’s Pact, a provider of payments services for banks, said an integration with Q2 Holdings Inc.’s digital-banking service will allow banks to offer an …
Read More »FIS Enables FedNow Send Capability and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/4/25
FIS Inc. said it is one of the first fintechs certified to offer send capability on credit transfers through the FedNow real-time payments network, operated by the Federal Reserve. The company is offering the new service to bank clients for use by both consumers and commercial clients. Hospitality point-of-sale services specialist Olo said …
Read More »RTP Passes 1 Billion Mark and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/3/25
The Clearing House Payments Co.’s Real Time Payments Network said it passed 1 billion cumulative payments on Friday. The network, operated by TCH since 2017, also set single-day records Friday for number of payments, at 1,592,419, and value, at $1.44 billion. New York City-based TCH is owned by 20 large commercial banks. President Donald …
Read More »Bluefin’s P2PE Offering and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/31/25
Bluefin said it will offer point-to-point encryption capability for the event-management platforms Event Guru and Registration Guru. AstroPay, a Brazil-based cross-border payments fintech, said it has been granted a payment-institution license by the Central Bank of Brazil. Magwitch, a lending-as-a-service platform, has integrated real-time point-of-sale lending technology from U.S. Bank Avvance. …
Read More »Same-Day ACH’s Bloom and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/30/25
Same-day ACH payment volume topped 1.2 billion payments in 2024, said Nacha, the automated clearing house rule maker, and was valued at $3.2 trillion. Nacha said same-day ACH volume increased 45.3% from 2023 to 2024. Overall, ACH Network payment volume rose 6.7% from 2023 to 2024, to 33.6 billion payments in …
Read More »Porter Airlines’ New Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/29/25
Porter Airlines this spring will launch its VIPorter Mastercard card program, working with Mastercard Inc. and the Canadian banking giant BMO. Payments platform Repay announced an integration with the underwriting platform Worth to allow for faster merchant onboarding and vendor connections. Credit union service organization Velera released its card-on-file service that enables cardholders to update …
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