PayFacto Inc., a payment solutions provider specializing in the hospitality industry, announced Thursday the acquisition of iShop, a technology provider for restaurants. The deal, for which terms were not disclosed, gives Montreal-based PayFacto an in-house online-ordering solution, something the company found was missing in its technology stack. As a result, …
Read More »VeriCheck Acquires Applied Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/6/22
Fintech VeriCheck Inc. announced it has acquired Applied Payments LLC, which does business as ACHWorks, a payment-services provider specializing in automated clearing house transactions. Terms were not announced.Buy now, pay later provider Afterpay Ltd. said in-store shopping from its customers soared 384% year-over-year for the Oct. 1 to Dec. 27 period. Afterpay, available in …
Read More »Synovus Launches Virtual Mobile Commercial Cards for Workers, Vendors, And Others
As part of its strategy to bring digital- and mobile-banking experiences to its customers, Synovus Financial Corp. has introduced a mobile virtual commercial credit card. The Visa Inc.-branded cards, which businesses can generate and send to employees, vendors, and contractors through a mobile app, will be enabled in a digital …
Read More »Rev USA Wallet Launches and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/5/22
Rev USA, a unit of Rev Worldwide Inc., announced a nationwide launch for its X World Wallet, app-based account that includes features such as loyalty and travel bookings and can be linked to physical and digital Visa cards.Computer Services Inc., a payments processor for financial institutions and corporate clients, reported …
Read More »How Payix Is Expected To Raise Repay’s Game in the Hot Buy Now, Pay Later Arena
The acquisition of independent sales organization Payix is expected to bolster payments provider Repay Holdings Corp.’s ability to acquire new merchants, including in the fast-growing and wildly popular buy now, pay later space. Repay on Monday announced its $115-million deal for Payix, which is a registered independent sales organization of Wells …
Read More »67% Willing To Pay with Crypto and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/4/22
A Cantaloupe Inc. study found that 67% of consumers who own cryptocurrency are willing to use it for purchases if it were linked to a mobile wallet. The study had responses from more than 2,000 U.S. adults.Card maker SmartMetric Inc. said it created a credit card with a built-in fingerprint sensor. The card contains …
Read More »Repay Acquires Payix and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/3/22
Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. announced it has acquired payments-technology provider Payix for $95 million at closing plus up to $20 million in earnouts contingent on Payix’s 2022 performance.Mobile-parking app provider ParkMobile LLC said an agreement with the city of Clarksville, Tenn., covers 234 on- and off-street spaces in the city’s downtown. ParkMobile claims …
Read More »PayByPhone App Sees $550 Million in Annual Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/29/21
PayByPhone Technologies said it launched its parking-payments app in 25 additional locations in 2021, including 21 cities and four universities. Globally, the app is available in more than 1,000 cities and processes more than $550 million in payments annually.Aderant, a business management software provider, announced a partnership with LawPay that will …
Read More »E-Commerce Sales up 11% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/27/21
E-commerce sales increased 11% in the Nov. 1 to Dec. 24 period compared to the same time last year, and were up 61.4% from the same time in 2019, according to the latest Mastercard SpendingPulse report.Fintech Aizen Global Co. Ltd. said it is working with BNY Mellon to develop banking-as-a-service for banks and …
Read More »How the ACH May Have Been the Winner of the Pandemic Payments Sweepstakes
The share of payments claimed by the automated clearing house rose faster in 2020 than the share for cards, while checks dropped markedly. All the while, the share of payments claimed by cards, which had been steadily on the rise for years, flattened out. And while contactless transactions did rise …
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