Mastercard Inc. grew its fourth-quarter net revenue by double digits in the face of a market that has forced payments companies to wrestle with a slew of knotty considerations, including the potential impact of a major bill that would cap credit card rates and the dizzying effect of fast moves …
Read More »ACH Volume Grew 5% in 2025
Business-to-business and same-day ACH were standout segments of Nacha’s automated clearing house transactions in 2025. Released Thursday, total volume of 35.2 billion payments in 2025 made with the ACH payment method were up 5% over 2024. Reston, Va.-based Nacha, the ACH rules maker, says these transactions were valued at $93 …
Read More »Deluxe Profit up 61.2% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/29/26
Deluxe Corp. reported $2.13 billion in 2025 revenue, up 0.5% from $2.12 billion in 2024. Its net income, however, grew even more reaching $85.3 million in 2025, up 61.2% from $52.9 million the year prior. In the fourth quarter, Deluxe had $535.5 million in revenue, up 2.8% from $520.5 million in …
Read More »Zelle Beefs Up Access to CUs and Community Banks, Adds More Resellers
Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment service operated by Early Warning Services LLC, announced late Tuesday 337 financial institutions joined the network in 2025. The majority of the institutions are community banks and credit unions with assets of less than $10 billion. The influx of new financial institutions gives Zelle access to …
Read More »Elavon Launches a New Tool to Help Businesses Collect Payments
Elavon Live Payments is a new payments app for Microsoft 365 users that acquirer Elavon says it designed to make it easier for businesses to collect online payments. Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based productivity suite that includes Outlook, an email app. Elavon Live Payments enables users to send invoices via …
Read More »SpotOn Rings up AI and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/28/26
Restaurant POS provider SpotOn will work with Loman AI to allow restaurants using SpotOn to leverage AI-based phone automation to book reservations, take orders, and perform other services. Payments provider WEX has launched its WEX Fleet card with capability for EV charging added to traditional fuel payments, becoming the first fuel card issuer to combine fueling …
Read More »Crypto Is Moving Into the Payments Mainstream, a New Study Finds
Merchants and consumers are embracing cryptocurrency as a mainstream payments option, according to a study from the National Cryptocurrency Association and PayPal Holdings Inc. Some 39% of merchants surveyed accept cryptocurrency at checkout, while 84% believe crypto payments will become common in the next five years, the study says. A …
Read More »As Gateways Become More Vital, TSG Issues its Rankings
The value of payment gateways for merchants, independent sales organizations, and processors has only grown in recent years. Now, as the tangible benefit of a gateway migrates from operational stability to aiding better business outcomes, their importance has grown. To help payments companies navigate the gateway segment, TSG, an Omaha, …
Read More »Nuvei Teams with Wex and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/27/26
Payments provider Nuvei Corp. said it will offer virtual card technology from WEX Inc. to its merchant base under a new agreement. Forter Inc., a developer of anti-fraud technology, said it will offer fraud prevention and identity technology to the McDonald’s Corp. for transactions conducted digitally with the hamburger chain. Mastercard Inc. announced …
Read More »Fiserv And Affirm Will Offer BNPL to Debit Card holders
Affirm Holdings Inc. early Monday widened banks’ access to its buy now, pay later loan programs for debit card holders through a deal with Fiserv Inc. The deal will enable banks on the Fiserv network to integrate Affirm’s pay-over-time solution into their debit card programs via their digital-banking and mobile-app …
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