Fraud & Security

Deluxe Corp. reported a slight decline in third-quarter revenue year-over-year, with $537.8 million compared to $555 million for the same period in 2022. Its payments unit, its second-largest division, recorded flat revenue of $169.5 million, with its checks business posting $180 millon, down slightly from $182.4. Known chiefly as a check …

Wellfit Technologies Inc. said it will provide payment processing, patient financing, and other services under a new agreement with Patterson Dental’s network of clinics. RentSpree, a management platform for landlords, announced it has reached 2 million users, doubling its user count in less than two years. The service enables rent payments …

Bitpay, a provider of cryptocurrency-based payments services, said it is working with crypto-technology provider Banxa to enlarge access to payments using digital currency. Shield Compliance, a compliance provider for cannabis banking, issued an open letter to American Express, Discover, Mastercard, and Visa calling on the networks to permit financial institutions …

A day after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau floated a proposed data rights rule, reaction from the payments industry has been largely positive. The rule aims at governing the practice of sharing consumer data through open banking. The proposed rule would require financial institutions to share data at a consumer’s …

J.P. Morgan Payments launched its pay-by-bank service, relying on open-banking technology from Mastercard Inc. The service lets customers pay bills directly from their bank accounts. Block Inc.’s Afterpay buy now, pay later platform announced a partnership with Nift Networks to offer users access to products and services offered by Nift. Point-of-sale system maker Revel …

Ninety-nine percent of large enterprises—those with annual revenue of $1 billion to $9.9 billion—expect to send real-time payments in the next five years, found the 2023 AFP Real-Time Payments Survey released by the Association for Financial Professionals and sponsored by The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC. It also found that 77% of …

With the fourth quarter under way, fraudsters are increasing the sophistication of their attacks while consumers are gearing up for a busy holiday-shopping season, albeit with different goals. First, a new report from Au10tix, an Israel-based identity verification and management provider, found a 44% increase compared to preceding quarters in …

AppTech Payments Corp., a specialist in business-to-business and business-to-consumer payments, has agreed to acquire Alliance Partners LLC and its FinZeo money-movement software. With the deal, expected to close Oct. 31, AppTech will become a payment facilitator, a company that allows merchants to accept payments on the company’s merchant account. Terms …

The Payments Innovation Alliance released what it calls a tabletop exercise designed to help small and mid-size businesses prepare defenses against a cyberattack. The PIA is part of Nacha, the network operator for the automated clearing house network. Transact Campus Inc., a payments platform specializing in college campuses, announced a technical …

An agreement between processor Fiserv Inc. and open-banking platform Plaid will allow consumers who use any of Fiserv’s 3,000 client banks to share financial information with third-party apps and services. Discover Financial Services’ Discover Global Network launched a cloud-based version of its stored payment tokens service. Tokens are digital replacements for actual card credentials. …