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FIS Inc. said it is working with Banked, an open-banking provider, to develop new pay by bank services for businesses and consumers. Gateway provider Trice Technologies Inc. said it is a technology provider and real-time payments gateway for the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC. Web services and payments provider GoDaddy …

The digital-tipping provider eTip announced late Monday it has partnered with Davidson Hospitality Group to make its service available to Davidson’s 85 hotels and resorts, as well as the company’s more than 200 restaurants, bars, and lounges in the United States. To initiate a payment through eTip’s application, consumers scan …

E-commerce platform Radial Inc. is giving its merchants a new payment option that bypasses traditional credit and debit card payments and instead relies on account-to-account transfers. Dubbed Pay by Bank, the service was developed by Link Financial Technologies Inc., which does business as Link Money, an open-banking platform. King of …

Bank of America reported an all-time high 21.5 million customers now use the peer-to-peer payments network Zelle. BofA customers last year sent and received 1.24 billion Zelle payments totaling $373 billion, both also record highs. In the fourth quarter, Zelle send transactions were double the number of checks written, the bank …

The buy now, pay later trend emerged in the U.S. market in a big way in 2020 in the wake of the pandemic as a means to let strapped consumers make point-of-sale and online transactions with partial payments, while financing the balance over a short term. Since then, the U.S. …

Picklejar Entertainment Group, whose software manages payments and other functions for events, launched contest-management capability incorporating the company’s identity-verification technology. Finmont, a travel-related payments-orchestration platform, has agreed to add processing from payments platform ConnexPay. William P. Foley II has been appointed chief executive of Cannae Holdings Inc., whose investments include a 6% …

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is revolutionizing the way consumers and businesses handle their financial affairs, offering an innovative alternative to traditional, centralized financial systems. This transformation is creating a dynamic financial landscape where both traditional finance methods and DeFi coexist, encouraging real-time, transparent, and secure digital payment solutions. This evolution presents …

J.P. Morgan Payments sees the future of electronic commerce as one pipeline accessed by consumers across channels. Its role in that scenario is outlined by the debut earlier this year of what it calls a full-stack omnichannel service, one that offers in-store, online, and mobile checkout capabilities. “We realized merchants …

Cantaloupe Inc., a payments processor for vending machines and unattended markets, reported 1.23 million active devices online at the end of its December quarter, up 7% year-over-year. Active clients totaled 30,027, a 14% rise. Revenue for the quarter came to $65.4 million, up 7%, while transaction volume grew 12% to …

When Alex Chriss came from Intuit last fall to take over as chief executive of PayPal Holdings Inc., he made it plain there would be big changes in strategy coming soon. On Wednesday, he began delivering on that promise, asserting the payments company is going to promote so-called branded checkout …