Thursday , April 25, 2024

Mobile Commerce

Booming Same-Day ACH Volume Is Up 22%

Volume for automated clearing house transactions cleared and settled on the same day they’re initiated increased 22.3% in 2023, signaling the embrace of same-day ACH by the payments industry, Nacha says. Same-day processing was launched nearly eight years ago. Nacha, a rulemaker for the ACH network, says overall ACH volume …

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If Top Card Execs Must Testify, So Should Merchant Leaders, CCCA Opponents Argue

Days after Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sent letters to the chief executives of Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. demanding they testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their opposition to the Credit Card Competition Act, the Electronic Payments Coalition is asking why the committee is not requesting that leaders of …

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Shift4’s AI-Based Site Builder And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/15/24

Shift4 Payments Inc. launched SkyTab Website Builder, a tool enabling restaurants to more easily design a Web site. Businesses using Shift4’s SkyTab point-of-sale payments technology can access the new service for free. Blackhawk Network announced Select Codes, which businesses can send to customers to enable access to prepaid gift cards. Bank of …

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FIS’s Pay by Bank Path And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/14/24

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 …

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eTip Brings Digital Tipping To Davidson Hospitality Properties

The digital-tipping provider eTip announced late Monday it has partnered with Davidson Hospitality Group to make its service available to Davidson’s 85 hotels and resorts, as well as the company’s more than 200 restaurants, bars, and lounges in the United States. To initiate a payment through eTip’s application, consumers scan …

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Radial Adds Link Money’s Pay by Bank for Account-to-Account Payments

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 …

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Visa Adds Virtual Card Capabilities for Commercial Card Users

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 …

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At a Double-Digit Growth Rate, BNPL Isn’t Cooling off

The buy now, pay later trend emerged in the U.S. market in a big way in 2020 in the wake of the pandemic as a means to let strapped consumers make point-of-sale and online transactions with partial payments, while financing the balance over a short term. Since then, the U.S. …

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Picklejar’s Contest Tools And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/12/24

Picklejar Entertainment Group, whose software manages payments and other functions for events, launched contest-management capability incorporating the company’s identity-verification technology. Finmont, a travel-related payments-orchestration platform, has agreed to add processing from payments platform ConnexPay. William P. Foley II has been appointed chief executive of Cannae Holdings Inc., whose investments include a 6% …

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COMMENTARY: Charting a Course Toward Transparent and Secure Digital Payments

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is revolutionizing the way consumers and businesses handle their financial affairs, offering an innovative alternative to traditional, centralized financial systems. This transformation is creating a dynamic financial landscape where both traditional finance methods and DeFi coexist, encouraging real-time, transparent, and secure digital payment solutions. This evolution presents …

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