Competitive Strategies

FIS Inc. is the latest processor to be certified for the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments network, which is scheduled to launch later this month. FIS, which announced yesterday it is selling a sell a 55% interest in its merchant-processing business, joins a growing list of certified FedNow participants, including  ACI …

Spotify, the digital-music service, has notified long-time customers it will no longer support payments from Apple Inc.’s App Store for premium subscriptions. Those customers who use the Apple service will be moved to Spotify’s free service and must transition to an alternative, such as PayPal or a credit card, for …

PayRange Inc., a provider of mobile payments for unattended markets, has extended its reach into the campground and RV parks market. Payments-technology provider NovoPayment released Orchestra 2.0, a payments-orchestration layer aimed at financial institutions. Paybotic Financial, a payments platform specializing in the cannabis industry, said it has joined the Emerging Market Coalition, a nonprofit …

Merchant Lynx Services has acquired National Credit Card Processing Group, a provider of B2B payment solutions, for an undisclosed sum. National Card Processing specializes in payment acceptance for the construction and heavy-duty trucking parts and repairs, concrete ready mix, asphalt and aggregate supply, and highway civil construction industries. The acquisition …

In a fleeting 10-minute conference call, FIS Inc. announced early Thursday a move to sell a 55% interest in its merchant-processing business, which principally consists of the Worldpay unit it acquired four years ago, to the private-equity firm GTCR. The deal is expected to close by the end of the …

Travel-technology provider Sabre Corp. announced it has acquired Techsembly, a gift card and e-commerce platform for hotels. The U.S. Payments Forum published a white paper outlining the impact of the Federal Reserve’s clarification that debit card issuers must enable a choice of two unaffiliated networks for all transactions, including card-not-present payments. The clarification took effect …

FIS Inc. is talking to the private-equity firm GTCR LLC about taking a majority stake in the Jacksonville, Fla.-based company’s merchant-processing business, according to a report late Monday from Reuters. The report indicates the talks are “advanced” and value the stake at between $15 billion and $20 billion. The latest …

Apple Inc. said it will file a renewed appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a 2021 case that invalidated Apple’s requirement that App Store businesses accept payments only through Apple’s platform. Keys App Inc., a platform provider for locksmiths, launched its Keys App to enable digital payments for services and …

An overwhelming risk-management burden, coupled with a lack of familiarity with consumer credit, may have triggered the decision at Goldman Sachs Group to negotiate a withdrawal from its agreement to support Apple Inc.’s credit card and its recently launched buy now, pay later service, according to observers. The Wall Street …

Payments-processing giant FIS Inc. is reportedly looking into selling a majority stake in its Worldpay unit to private-equity firms at a valuation of $15 billion. The news indicates a change in strategy at FIS, which announced in February it intended to spin off Worldpay as a publicly held company some time during the coming …