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No surprise, the top merchant acquirer by payment volume remains JPMorgan Chase & Co., according to the 2023 edition of Directory of U.S. Merchant Acquirers from TSG, formerly known as The Strawhecker Group. With volume of $2.15 trillion, Chase retained the top spot last year that it has held since …
March, 2023
February, 2023
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23 February
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 …
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7 February
Real-Time Payments Tee up in Separate Sionic And Oracle Offerings
Real-time payments are getting more attention in financial services, and vendors are quickly enabling the faster-payment capability. Among the latest to do so is Sionic Corp., with its suite of services that includes its Verified Rapid Payments, and Oracle Corp., with a new set of cloud-based banking services. Atlanta-based Sionic …
January, 2023
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30 January
Justice Wants More Info From Visa on its Debit Practices
The U.S. Department of Justice wants more information from Visa Inc. on its U.S. debit practices, a continuation of an investigation originally started in 2021. Visa disclosed the request in a Jan. 27 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing and said the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division made the request on …
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23 January
Dealer Pay Enhances Its POS Platform To Enable Better Customer Experience for Auto Dealerships
Dealer Pay, a provider of point-of-sale technology to franchise and independent auto dealers, has updated its platform with several new features intended to deliver a better customer experience. Dealer Pay’s “send payment request” features enable dealers to collect payments directly from the customer via text messaging or email. Dealers can …
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10 January
POS Provider Tulip Enlists Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone Via Adyen
Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone has lined up another point-of-sale system supporter. Tulip, a point-of-sale system maker for omnichannel and enterprise merchants, now supports the contactless payment technology via an integration with processor Adyen NV. Announced Tuesday, the integration means Tulip merchants can use iPhones to accept payments …
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6 January
Fintech NorthOne Offers a Real-Time Payments Capability Via The Clearing House
Five years on, the Real Time Payments network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC continues to gain new members outside of legacy banking. The latest is NorthOne, a fintech that offers financial management services for small businesses, startups, and freelancers. New York City-based NorthOne, which was founded in 2016, …
December, 2022
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16 December
Mobile Fuel Service EzFill Adds a One-Time Payment Service
EzFill Holdings Inc.’s specialty is sending one of its mobile fuel trucks to a driver’s location, thus eliminating the hassle to the driver of having to get to a gas station to fill up the car or a fleet of vehicles. Now, EzFill has launched a new one-time payment service …
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5 December
Cantaloupe Expects Its $41-Million Deal for 32M To Net More Locations And Improve Margins
Vending and unattended payments specialist Cantaloupe Inc. has closed on its $41 million acquisition of Three Square Market, known as 32M, and intends to use it as a springboard for expansion and improved profit margins. Three Square Market, with headquarters in River Falls, Wis., will generate an estimated $19 million …
November, 2022
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18 November
Visa’s Kelly Will Step Aside as McInerney Prepares for the CEO Role
Payments giant Visa Inc. announced Alfred F. Kelly Jr., a former American Express Co. executive who joined Visa in 2016 as chief executive, will leave that role as Ryan McInerney, Visa’s current president, assumes the title Feb. 1. McInerney came to Visa in 2013 having held the chief executive of …
