Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB said its 2022 loss of 10.47 billion krona ($1 billion) grew on its 2021 loss of 7.1 billion krona ($680 million). This comes amid growth in 2022. The United States became Klarna’s largest market in December. Also, Klarna will begin collecting late fees from United Kingdom consumers who miss a payment, …
Read More »Use of Digital Identity Apps Is Set To Explode
More than 4.1 billion apps to enable consumers to verify their identity online are projected to be in use globally by 2027, up 82% from 2.3 billion this year, according to Juniper Research. Use of government-backed digital identities that replace physical-identity documents as a source of verification for third-party apps, …
Read More »Co-op Solutions Debuts a Debit Network for Credit Unions
Credit unions wanting another option among debit card networks have a new choice with the launch of Co-op Solutions’ Co-op Pay Network. Announced Monday, the network is open to all credit unions, regardless of their debit-processing relationships. The new network, which works with regular point-of-sale transactions, PINless transactions, mobile wallets, …
Read More »CFPB Legitimacy Challenged And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/22/23
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The move follows a federal appeals court decision in October that ruled the way the CFPB is funded is unconstitutional because it is not controlled by Congress. Financial marketplace LendingTree launched a Visa credit card in partnership …
Read More »Block Resets to Focus on Slowing Expenses And Speeding Profit Growth
Block Inc. has been a fast-growing payments machine over the years since its founding in 2009, and now the company is looking to slow down somewhat and focus more intently on profit growth, according to top executives. That move could start with personnel. “We plan on slowing our pace of …
Read More »GoDaddy Launches Payable Domains to Add Utility to the 40-Year-Old Domain Name System
Ever since its 2021 acquisition of the payments-technology company Poynt Inc., the big Web registrar GoDaddy Inc. has been pressing steadily into a variety of payments markets. In its latest move, the company said early Thursday it will let businesses accept payments through a registered domain name. The new Payable …
Read More »Stripe Launches Its Enhanced Issuer Network to Tackle Fraud And False Positives
Stripe Inc. late Tuesday announced the launch of its Enhanced Issuer Network to help merchants reduce fraud and false positives and increase authorization rates. Card issuers within the network, which include Capital One Financial Corp. and Discover Financial Services, can incorporate Stripe Radar fraud scores into their own authorization tools. …
Read More »U.S. Consumers Now Loom Large for Sweden’s Klarna
The United States has become buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB’s largest market by revenue, the company announced Tuesday. BNPL use blossomed during the pandemic and continues to find favor as inflation concerns push consumers to make value-based spending decisions. With 8 million monthly active users of the Klarna …
Read More »42% of Income Spent on Bills And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/22/23
The average U.S. household spends $29,459 per year on bills, amounting to 42% of income, according to the “2023 U.S. Bill Pay Market Size & Category Breakout Report” from bill-pay processor doxo. Mission Lane, a fintech providing access to credit and debit products to more than 2 million consumers, said it …
Read More »As FedNow Prepares for Launch, Bankers’ Banks Enlist Help for Real-Time Payments
With the launch of the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payment service expected by mid-year, payments players are lining up clients to take advantage of the service. The latest is Pidgin Inc., a startup payments platform specializing in supporting financial institutions. The Atlanta-based company early Tuesday announced that Community Bankers’ Bank …
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