Marketing

Restaurant point-of-sale specialist Lavu Inc. notes more than 1 billion orders have been placed on its POS platform. This comes as Lavu starts a restaurant advertising program featuring billboard advertising. Lavu, which debuted with an iOS app in 2010, now has customers in 65 countries. The billboard program, however, harkens …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s most recent analysis of card issuing practices found that in the first half of 2023 small banks and credit unions tended to offer lower interest rates than the top 25 issuers. For consumers with scores between 620 and 719, the median annual percentage rate for a large …

FIS Inc. said it is working with Banked, an open-banking provider, to develop new pay by bank services for businesses and consumers. Gateway provider Trice Technologies Inc. said it is a technology provider and real-time payments gateway for the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC. Web services and payments provider GoDaddy …

E-commerce platform Radial Inc. is giving its merchants a new payment option that bypasses traditional credit and debit card payments and instead relies on account-to-account transfers. Dubbed Pay by Bank, the service was developed by Link Financial Technologies Inc., which does business as Link Money, an open-banking platform. King of …

Bank of America reported an all-time high 21.5 million customers now use the peer-to-peer payments network Zelle. BofA customers last year sent and received 1.24 billion Zelle payments totaling $373 billion, both also record highs. In the fourth quarter, Zelle send transactions were double the number of checks written, the bank …

Just as Visa Inc. is expanding its Commercial Pay service to the Latin American and Caribbean region, it is making virtual card issuance for its commercial card clients a reality. Visa says Commercial Pay clients, which have access to a host of B2B payment services, now can add virtual corporate …

J.P. Morgan Payments sees the future of electronic commerce as one pipeline accessed by consumers across channels. Its role in that scenario is outlined by the debut earlier this year of what it calls a full-stack omnichannel service, one that offers in-store, online, and mobile checkout capabilities. “We realized merchants …

Cantaloupe Inc., a payments processor for vending machines and unattended markets, reported 1.23 million active devices online at the end of its December quarter, up 7% year-over-year. Active clients totaled 30,027, a 14% rise. Revenue for the quarter came to $65.4 million, up 7%, while transaction volume grew 12% to …

Payments provider Lightspeed Commerce Inc. reported December-quarter revenue of $239.7 million, up 27% year-over-year. The company narrowed its net loss to $40.2 million from $814.8 million a year ago. Payments platform FleetCor Technologies Inc. reported December-quarter revenue of $937.3 million, up 6% year-over-year. Net income rose 6% to $255.9 million. For full-year 2023, revenue …

Credit union service organization PSCU/Co-op Solutions released its buy now, pay later service to credit unions, enabling their cardholders to make installment payments on their card-based purchases. PSCU/Co-op, which merged Jan. 1, says cardholders whose credit unions enroll in the service can choose qualifying transactions to pay back in installments. …