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The Financial Data Exchange (FDX), a non-profit standards body for providers of open-banking and open-finance applications, announced on Wednesday that the number of consumer accounts using its application programming interface has swelled to 22 million, up from 16 million in April, an increase of more than one million accounts per …
September, 2021
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1 September
Eye on ACH: Same-Day Transactions Soar; Certegy’s Mobile Remote Capture for Vendors
Same-day transaction processing on the automated clearing house network will turn five years old this month, and while that may provide one reason for participants to celebrate, network governor Nacha issued another one Wednesday morning: both same-day transactions and same-day dollar volume are soaring. Transactions totaled 148.7 million in the …
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1 September
Mercari Picks Zip’s BNPL Option and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/1/21
Mercari, an online marketplace for second-hand goods, said consumers can use buy now, pay later services from Zip Co., formerly Quadpay, on its Web site.Buy now, pay later specialist Uplift Inc. said consumers who book with Sixthman, a music-festival organizer on cruise ships, can pay for their tickets in monthly installments. Sixthman is …
August, 2021
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31 August
Astra Partners With Plaid to Make It Easier for Developers to Add Automated Transfers
As part of its strategy to remove friction from automated bank transfers, Astra Inc., a provider of bank-to-bank transfer technology, is partnering with open-banking platform provider Plaid Inc. The partnership will make it easier for software developers to embed automated bank transfers into their applications by enabling them to use …
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31 August
The Delta Variant’s Shadow Hangs Over a Promising Recovery by the Nation’s Restaurant Industry
The emergence earlier this year of a virulent new coronavirus variant “threatens to reverse the gains made in the first six months of the year” by the U.S. restaurant industry, according to data released Tuesday by the National Restaurant Association. The news comes as eateries have adopted contactless forms of …
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31 August
Apple, Google Face Big App Store Change and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/31/21
Apple Inc.’s App Store and the Google Play store will have to open their payments services to competing providers for in-app purchases in South Korea if a recently passed bill becomes law, reported The Wall Street Journal, which also said the president’s party endorsed the legislation. Apple, in particular, has been the …
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30 August
Convenience Chain Wawa Settles a Class Action Suit Stemming from a Malware Attack
The convenience-store chain Wawa Inc. announced Monday it settled a class-action lawsuit stemming from a data breach in 2019 that was related to malware discovered on its payment-processing servers. The settlement, which is subject to court approval, resolves all customer claims related to the data breach. The malware affected customer payment card information …
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30 August
BNPL Lands a Whale As Affirm Adds Amazon for Installment Payments
Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Inc. late Friday announced it had clinched the e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. as a client, securing a source of enormous volume and sending its stock soaring Monday morning. The news follows the enablement in May of Affirm’s service for hundreds of thousands of U.S. merchants …
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30 August
Visa Adopts Contactless Transit Incentive and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/30/21
Visa Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. said they will donate a dime to New York Cares through the month of September, up to a limit of $250,000, for each tap riders perform with a Chase Visa contactless card on subways or buses operated by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority.VPay, …
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27 August
Stop & Shop Adds Online EBT Shopping in Four States
Stop & Shop, a New England grocer with more than 400 stores, said it is enabling online orders for pickup and delivery for customers using electronic benefits transfer payment services in four states. The Quincy, Mass.-based grocer, which is owned by Ahold Delhaize USA Co., said consumers using SNAP (Supplemental …