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Zip Adds a WebBank-Issued Card to Its BNPL Roster

Zip Co. Ltd. launched the Zip Card, a physical card to complement its virtual card in the highly competitive buy now, pay later arena. The new card, to be issued by WebBank, a Salt Lake City-based industrial bank that works with brands like Dell Financial Services, CAN Capital, Klarna, Fingerhut, …

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Small-Business Payments And Disbursements Help Fuel Zelle’s Q3 Growth

Building on its strategy of expanding beyond peer-to-peer payments, Zelle, the P2P network operated by Early Warning Services LLC, processed $127 billion on 466 million transactions during the third quarter of 2021. Overall, the dollar value of payments sent during the quarter increased 51% from the same period a year …

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EVO Revenue up 15.4% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/3/21

Payments provider EVO Payments Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $135 million, a 15.4% increase from the same quarter in 2020. Fifty-nine percent, or $79.4 million, of its revenue came from the Americas and the remainder, $55.6 million, from EVO’s European business. Net income of $7.1 million for the quarter was down 51.4% …

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Klarna Launches a New App That Brings BNPL Capability to Any Online Store

Two trends have buoyed the payments business since the onset of the pandemic—online shopping and buy now, pay later capability—and on Wednesday Klarna AB launched a new app that exploits both trends by letting consumers use Klarna’s BNPL service regardless of whether the store is a Klarna merchant. The new …

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Consumers Intend to Embrace BNPL As Never Before This Holiday Shopping Season

Heading into the holiday shopping season, consumers are poised to make even more use of buy now, pay later options than in the past. Overall, 42% of consumers plan to use BNPL while holiday shopping, according to a survey by GoCardless, a provider of account-to-account payments. When Millennials were asked …

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Global Payments Ramps up While Reporting New Ties to PayPal And Growth in BNPL

The big processor Global Payments Inc. on Tuesday morning reported a busy third quarter that included an expansion of its relationship with PayPal Holdings Inc., ventures in the hot buy now, pay later market, recovery from the pandemic’s impact, and growth in the company’s issuer business stemming from its link …

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Jack Henry’s Zelle Incentive and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/2/21

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. and Early Warning Services LLC, the Zelle operator, announced a rebate program through June 2022 for minority-owned depository institutions that enable Zelle via Jack Henry’s JHA PayCenter, its faster payments hub.Prepaid Technologies Co. Inc. said it raised $96 million in its latest funding round that it will use …

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Eye On BNPL: ACI Partners With Affirm; Afterpay’s Holiday Shopping Survey

ACI Worldwide Inc. added to its growing list of buy now, pay later partners on Monday, announcing a deal with Affirm Inc. Merchants using the processor’s ACI Secure eCommerce solution can offer consumers the ability to make purchases with Affirm and split the cost of the purchase into biweekly or …

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Apple Objects to App Store Payment Changes and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/1/21

Apple Inc. filed an objection to a September U.S. District Court ruling that it says hinders the computing giant’s ability to restrict developers on its App Store to Apple’s own payment system. The ruling upheld Apple’s requirement that developers use its payment system within the App Store but said Apple must allow references to …

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Stripe Strikes Again In Executing Its Strategy to Expand Beyond Online Payments Acceptance

Building on its strategy of expanding beyond payments acceptance, Stripe Inc. on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Recko Inc., a provider of payments-reconciliation software for Internet businesses. Terms were not disclosed. The deal follows the debut of new applications this year intended to carry out this strategy, such as Stripe …

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