Open-banking platform Plaid is collaborating with digital-wallet provider Ansa to offer a pay-by-bank capability to restaurants and other merchants, with wallet transactions handled via the automated clearing house. Payments-technology platform Modern Treasury launched widened support for connectivity to FedNow and The Clearing House’s RTP network for real-time payments, as well as other moves to …
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Oil and gas giant BP plc early Monday launched a loyalty app called earnify, which enables BP customers to earn rewards points for fuel and in-store purchases at BP and Amoco locations. App users earn 1 point per $1 spent on fuel and 2 points per $1 spent on other …
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Paysafe Ltd. will process transactions for clients of Gaming Innovation Group in North America, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Latin America that have adopted Gaming Innovations’ CoreX player-account management system. Silverblaze, a developer of customer-engagement software for utility companies, will adopt billing and payment technology from Kubra and has joined …
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With the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service having debuted in July last year and The Clearing House Payments Co.’s RTP network in operation since 2017, just how soon can the U.S. payments industry expect widespread, routine exchange of real-time transactions? Answers to that question are beginning to emerge. According to a …
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Payments companies may not yet be ready to embrace fully the world of blockchains, but some major payments networks are taking steps to deepen their experience in the world of digital currencies. Witness Visa Inc., which early Thursday said it will help banks issue tokens they create on a blockchain. …
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The Priority Commerce unit of Priority Technology Holdings Inc. has replaced the subscription billing model for Plastiq, its bill pay service, with a transaction fee per use. It also made all formerly premium subscription tools available to all users. The Small Business Index from the processor Fiserv Inc. indicates small-business sales and total …
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Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, says more than 125 million credit and debit cards are now available to use with the e-commerce checkout tool as the service taps a new general manager. Also, buy now, pay later specialist Klarna AB has become an Apple Inc. …
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Mastercard Inc. announced early Tuesday it is acquiring Minna Technologies, a provider of subscription-management applications. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will enable consumers to more easily manage, renew, and cancel their subscriptions by providing them a single view of all their subscriptions within their banking apps …
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Beginning next summer, PayPal Holdings Inc. will begin sharing more personalized shopper information with merchants, as outlined in its recently updated PayPal Privacy Statement. Data such as products, preferences, sizes, and styles will be shared with merchants to “help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you,” …
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Payments-technology provider Stax announced it has acquired payments-gateway provider BlockChyp. Terms were not announced. Payments provider TrustCommerce said its Cloud Payments platform has been certified by all major U.S. processors, including Fiserv, Chase, Elavon, Global Payments/TSYS, and Worldpay. The temporary-staffing platform Indeed Flex is working with payment provider Branch to launch a service called Same Day …
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