Nacha, the automated clearing house rule maker, is soliciting feedback on potentially increasing the transaction size of a same-day ACH payment from $1 million to $10 million. Comments are being accepted through Dec. 18. Steamboat Capital sent an open letter to the directors of Priority Technology Holdings Inc. expressing disappointment in an …
Read More »PhotonPay Is the Latest to Join Circle’s New Arc Blockchain
PhotonPay announced over the weekend it has joined Circle Internet Financial’s fledgling Arc blockchain, representing the latest participant for Arc since Circle unveiled the network in August. Hong Kong-based PhotonPay, which in July became a Mastercard commercial card issuer, also supports Mastercard users of Google Pay to enable contactless payments …
Read More »Amscot Teams with Green Dot and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/17/25
Amscot Financial said it will work with Green Dot Corp. to offer demand-deposit accounts offering a secured credit card, a network of more than 25,000 ATMs, and other features. Banker Washington Trust Co. said it added Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale system to its roster of products available to its business clients. ECI Software Solutions launched …
Read More »‘Not the Final Chapter:’ Questions Arise About the Latest Interchange Settlement
As the dust settles around the latest settlement agreement in Visa Inc.’s and Mastercard Inc.’s long running legal battle with merchants over card-acceptance fees, how the offer will impact the payments industry is coming into focus. Early reaction to the agreement from payments experts is that interchange relief will be …
Read More »A Fast-Growing Payroc Widens Its Offering for Service Businesses
Payroc LLC on Thursday announced its latest move in its expansion into service businesses. The Tinley Park, Ill.-based company said it is widening the capabilities of Roc Services with what it says is expanded scheduling utility and wider flexibility for pricing. Introduced in July last year, Roc Services allows business …
Read More »New Gen’s Agentic Commerce Platform Launches and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/14/25
E-commerce technology company New Generation released Kepler, an agentic commerce platform for retailers. Kepler has a suite of tools to help merchants structure, analyze, and present their product data in formats that both humans and artificial intelligence engines can understand, New Gen said. The Pix real-time payments network in Brazil is likely to surpass …
Read More »Paysafe Aims to Boost the Company’s Growth in Merchant Processing
Paysafe Ltd. early Thursday reported a net loss in its third-quarter results that widened to $87.7 million from $13 million last year as the company’s top executives expressed some frustration with its recent performance, particularly in its merchant-processing unit. Much of the loss, though, is attributable to a non-cash charge …
Read More »FedNow Limit Bumped to $10 Million and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/13/25
The Federal Reserve announced its FedNow real-time payments network has raised its transaction limit to $10 million from $1 million. The tenfold increase is expected to enable more transactions for such usages as corporate treasury and payroll, vendor payments, and real-estate transactions. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a release saying it may not …
Read More »In Stablecoin Payments, ‘We Intend to Be the Leader,’ Says Circle’s CEO
The payments industry for some time has been seeking meaningful growth in applications based on cryptocurrency, and early on Wednesday, one of the industry’s biggest players in that corner of the marketplace said it is making that happen with stablecoins—digital currency whose value is tied to fiat money like the …
Read More »Catering Next for PARTech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/12/25
PAR Technology Corp. launched PAR Catering, a service to help restaurants build and manage their catering operations. Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit has launched a service that lets merchants accept bitcoin and manage digital assets in tandem with fiat currency. The service, which is charging no fees for the first year, includes …
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