Bank of America Corp. customers using Zelle initiated a record 1.6 billion transactions totaling $470 billion in 2024. Transaction volume increased 25%, and dollar volume 26%, last year compared to 2023. Zelle has become more popular than checks as a payment method, with Zelle transactions nearly triple the number of …

Cash App was a big growth driver last year for Block Inc. and is expected to remain so as 2025 unfolds, the company said during a conference call late Thursday to discuss Block’s fourth-quarter results. Block is the parent company of the Square and Cash App businesses. During the last …

Galileo Financial Technologies LLC announced early Thursday the launch of a co-branded debit rewards card for the hospitality and travel industries. In addition to enabling debit card holders to earn rewards on their purchases, Galileo will use its card-issuing, processing, Cyberbank Digital, and program-management technologies to reduce time to market …

Mastercard Inc. announced early Wednesday the launch of One Credential, a digital-payment solution that supports multiple payment methods such as credit, debit, and prepaid, as well as installment loans, on a single card. Targeted primarily at Gen Zers, One Credential allows consumers to tailor their payment methods to better manage …

Toast Inc. has signed Ascent Hospitality Management, which owns and manages the Perkins American Food Co. and Huddle House restaurant chains, as a client. Ascent will install Toast’s payments platform in 500 Perkins and Huddle House locations initially. Ascent installed the first Toast platform at a Perkins location last fall, the …

Now Book It, a vendor of table-reservation and payments software for restaurants in Australia and New Zealand, has expanded to Canada. Canada has more than 100,000 locations that serve food, such as restaurants, cafés and brew pubs, generating $112 billion in annual sales, according to Restaurants Canada. In addition, 23 …

Fraud-as-a-service offerings last year made it easier than ever for criminals to perpetrate mega-fraud attacks across payment, social media, and cryptocurrency platforms, says a report from AU10TIX, a provider of identity-verification solutions. Fraud-as-a-service refers to online marketplaces that sell the tools criminals need to perpetrate fraud, such as artificial-intelligence-based tools …

Stripe Inc. announced late Wednesday it is partnering with Spade, a provider of real-time merchant intelligence for card issuers, to provide issuers on the Stripe platform with data to verify a merchant’s identity during the authorization process. Spade provides information such as merchant name, category, and geolocation within 50 milliseconds. …

Zelle, the peer-to-peer payments service from Early Warning Services LLC, announced early Wednesday that dollar volume sent over the network last year totaled a record $1 trillion, up 27% from 2023. Transactions for the year totaled 3.6 billion, a 25% year-over-year increase, while the number of consumer and business accounts …

A subdued Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is likely to emerge in the wake of the order issued over the weekend to close its offices for the week and have employees work remotely during that period. Acting CFPB director Russell Vought, director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, …