Acquiring

Shift4 Payments Inc. on Thursday reported record quarterly end-to-end payment volume and gross revenue as it notched what chief executive Jared Isaacman called a “strong first quarter.” Stronger performance in the company’s core hospitality market helped drive end-to-end volume to a record $8 billion, with most growth coming from new …

Flywire Corp. said users of its education payment service can now use Discover and Diners Club International cards to pay tuition and fees at educational institutions served by Flywire.The chief executives of 21 banks plus Fiserv Inc. and Jack Henry & Associates signed a letter committing their organizations to real-time bill …

Skeptics abound when it comes to digital currencies, but PayPal Holdings Inc. is out to prove them wrong. Chief executive Dan Schulman, an early enthusiast, made it plain Wednesday he sees the crypto trend not only as the company’s big opportunity, but also as a potential liability if PayPal fumbles …

Square Inc. continues to build out delivery services for its Square Online platform with the addition of liquor delivery. Merchants using Square Online that sell liquor can offer customers the option to purchase alcohol from the store’s Web site and have the order fulfilled through Square’s delivery partner DoorDash Inc. …

More evidence emerged that consumers are still increasing their use of contactless payments, over a year since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contactless transaction counts among the more than 75,000 small businesses in the latest CardFlight Small Business Report grew 426.7% in the week ending May 2 compared to …

The Zelle peer-to-peer payment network handled $106 billion in volume in the first quarter on 392 million transactions, up 74% and 61%, respectively, year over year. Zelle is owned and operated by Early Warning Services LLC.Jack Henry & Associates Inc., a provider of payments technology to financial institutions, said it has integrated Mastercard …

The big processor Global Payments Inc. announced early Tuesday it will acquire Zego Inc., a payments and technology provider for managers of residential real estate, in a deal valued at approximately $830 million. The company also announced an agreement to buy the PayOne acquiring business in Austria belonging to the …

The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC announced three processors—Fiserv Inc., FIS Inc., and Jack Henry & Associates—will offer its real-time payment service to minority-owned depository institutions. The processors and TCH will jointly cover the onboarding fees for these financial institutions connecting to TCH’s RTP network.Datacap Systems Inc. said it will offer the digital …

The PCI Security Standards Council says its new Terminal Software Module, which is part of version 1.1 of the PCI Secure Software Standard introduced last week, offers a more flexible approach to testing the security and integrity of payment software. The Terminal Software Module is the third module to be …

Merchants have complained for years that they pay too much for debit card acceptance. Late last week, they took their beef to the federal courts with a lawsuit alleging a ceiling set on debit card fees a decade ago by the Federal Reserve is too high and seeking to have …