News

April, 2025

• 23 April

  Payments as a growth strategy – how ISVs can optimize revenue potential with embedded finance

  

  Steven Velasquez, Senior Vice President and Head of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon As the worlds of technology and financial services converge, the pace of innovation is increasing exponentially. The advent of AI, cloud-based, headless architecture, and ‘everything-as-a-service’ presents a challenge to ISVs looking to adapt to …
• 23 April

  Trifecta Technologies Partners with Stripe to Offer a ‘Payment Launchpad’

  

  Trifecta Technologies Inc., an IT management company specializing in the Salesforce platform, is partnering with processor Stripe Inc. to create what it calls a payment launchpad for businesses. The launchpad will enable SalesForce users to streamline their payment processes by automating recurring payments. The feature will help businesses ensure on-time …
• 23 April

  Same-Day ACH Volume Rises 19%

  

  Business, consumer, and government use of the automated clearing house network continues on its growth pace with overall ACH payment volume up 4.2% in the first quarter year-over-year. Same-day ACH, Nacha’s faster-payments offering, experienced a 19.1% jump in payments. Same-day ACH volume, as revealed Wednesday by Nacha, totaled 326 million …
• 23 April

  Klarna Added to eBay’s U.S. Marketplace and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/23/25

  

  The e-commerce giant eBay Inc. said it will widen its global partnership with payments platform Klarna AB to include the U.S. market, allowing the shopping site to roll out Klarna’s payments capabilities to ”millions” of eBay shoppers, eBay says.  PSQ Payments said it is available on the Shopify App store, making the service …
• 22 April

  Affirm Expands Its Credit Reporting to TransUnion

  

  Buy now, pay later platform Affirm Holdings Inc. early Tuesday announced it will begin credit reporting for all its loan products to TransUnion LLC, effective May 1. TransUnion is the second of the three credit bureaus to which Affirm is reporting. In March, San Francisco-based Affirm announced it would begin …
• 22 April

  Circle’s New Payments Network Solicits Banks for Cross-Border Stablecoin Settlement

  

  The stablecoin platform Circle Internet Group Inc. late Monday unveiled a payments network aimed at linking financial institutions and digital wallets for cross-border payments. The network, which will enable real-time settlement using what Circle calls regulated stablecoins, represents a major new thrust for the 11-year-old, New York City-based company into …
• 22 April

  CU Taps Jack Henry and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/22/25

  

  Brightstar Credit Union will add real-time payments capabilities through processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. under a new agreement. The capabilities will include the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service and the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. RentRedi, a mobile app for rent payments and other landlord-tenant functions, introduced Chat 2.0, …
• 21 April

  CompoSecure Partners With MoneyGram for Cross Border Traffic, While Circle Announces a Cross Border Platform

  

  CompoSecure Inc., a provider of metal payment cards and security technology, is integrating its Arculus cold-storage wallet with MoneyGram Access, which allows digital-wallet users to convert cash into digital currencies. These include such media as USD Coin, a stablecoin backed by U.S. dollars and dollar-denominated assets. In addition, CompoSecure announced …
• 21 April

  With The Final OKs, the Capital One-Discover Combo Sets a May 18 Closing

  

  More than a year after Capital One Financial Corp. announced its $35-billion deal to acquire Discover Financial Services, it received the last federal regulatory approvals to move ahead and has set a May 18 closing. The last two regulatory approvals, from the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller …
• 21 April

  Fiserv’s New Fintech Hub and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/21/25

  

  Fiserv Inc. announced it will open later this year what it calls a strategic fintech hub in Overland Park, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, Mo. The new location is expected to create approximately 2,000 jobs. Brightstar Credit Union will add real-time payments capabilities through processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. under a …