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Might decoupled debit rise again? It very well could, according to some payments experts, and the light on the hill is the decoupled debit card issued by the battered and bruised discount retailer Target Corp. For nearly three months, Target has weathered a storm of bad publicity after confirming a …
Read More »Mitek Pictures Itself as a New Tech Provider in Mobile Biller-Direct Payments
Mobile-imaging software developer Mitek Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced its Mobile Photo Payments application that enables large billers to receive bill payments from consumers using their mobile devices. The service complements San Diego-based Mitek’s existing Mobile Photo Bill Pay product, which rolled out last year and is distributed mainly through …
Read More »Fed Report: Plastic Strengthens Its Grip on Payments As Credit Cards Resume Growth
More than ever, plastic dominates the business of electronic payments in the United States, with two-thirds of all noncash transactions in 2012 occurring on a card, up substantially from 60% just three years earlier. That’s according to the Federal Reserve System’s triennial payments study, released Thursday. The sweeping research report, …
Read More »The Fed Seeks Ideas on How To Take the Tail Fins Off of U.S. Electronic Payments
How to improve the U.S. payment system? Figure out a way to make electronic payments faster and more secure, as well as a system that would connect various closed-loop payment networks with hundreds of millions accounts. And reduce regulation, too. Those were some of the ideas bandied about Thursday at …
Read More »NACHA Proposals for Reducing Exceptions Include New Fines for Sloppy and Risky Originators
In an effort to reduce the volume of returned transactions and motivate banks to crack down on originators of incorrect or risky automated clearing house payments, ACH network governing body NACHA today proposed two new rules to improve transaction quality. One would set new fines that the network could assess …
Read More »Native Electronic Applications Shine on the ACH As Check-Based Codes Slide
By John Stewart n Electronic processing of payments that originate as paper checks dropped dramatically in the second quarter on the automated clearing house network, while payments that start out as electronic items grew briskly, according to the latest report from NACHA, the ACH’s governing body. n The decline in …
Read More »Through The Clearing House, Major Banks Prepare a ‘Secure Cloud’ to Mask Payments Data
Fearing that security worries could hinder mobile payments and other digital-payments channels, a handful of major banks are building a server-based switch that will mask consumers’ banking information when they perform transactions. Tentatively called Secure Cloud, the so-called thin switch is under construction at The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, …
Read More »First-Quarter NACHA Stats Again Reflect Slow Death of Paper Checks
The slow death of paper checks showed up again in the latest quarterly statistics from NACHA, the regulatory body for the automated clearing house network. The ACH, which links virtually every financial institution in the country, allows banks and merchants to convert checks into electronic formats. But transaction volume on …
Read More »Banks’ ‘Shift in Priorities’ Leaves Secure Vault Payments in the Lurch
n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n Merchant pricing is 0.9% of the sale plus 30 cents, which Gonthier says is only about one-third the cost of a credit card or PayPal Inc. transaction.
Read More »Chirpify Widens Its Payments Reach As It Seeks Social-Commerce Data
The move will allow Chirpify members to pay merchants and each other on the Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram social networks with American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa cards or with ACH transfers. It also propels the fledgling Portland, Ore.-based company further into the fast-growing world of social commerce, where companies …
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