Real-estate software developer MRI Software said it has named Deluxe Corp. its official processing partner for its rent-payment technology. Commerce.com Inc., the parent company of e-commerce platform BigCommerce, said it has integrated PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Store Sync technology in BigCommerce’s App Marketplace and Channel Manager. The move aims to make Commerce merchants’ …
Read More »EVS Launches AssureACH and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/27/26
Electronic Verification Systems launched AssureACH, a service to prevent fraud at the point of capture. Among its features are real-time demand deposit account and routing number validation. MiCamp Solutions has agreed to serve as an independent sales organization representing Vibe Retail, a developer of point-of-sale technology aimed at independent merchants. The Electronic Transactions …
Read More »ACI Connetic Adds Networks and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/23/26
Citing network complexity, ACI Worldwide Inc. said its ACI Connetic, a single platform connecting to multiple major payments systems, now offers access to Fedwire, CHIPS, Swift, The Clearing House RTP, Zelle, and FedNow. A link to Nacha ACH is expected to go live next year. The service will also support stablecoin …
Read More »The EPC Launches an Ad Campaign to Overturn Illinois’s Interchange Law
The Electronic Payments Coalition has opened another front in the battle over the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act with the launch of an ad campaign aimed at having the law overturned by the Illinois legislature. The campaign comes hard on the heels of efforts by organizations representing financial institutions in …
Read More »Combatants in the Fight to Overturn Illinois’s Interchange Law Gear Up for an Appeals Battle
Three organizations representing the banking community, as well as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency along with former acting members of the OCC, filed amicus briefs late Friday urging the court to overturn the decision to exempt Illinois merchants from paying interchange on the sales tax and gratuities …
Read More »Illinois Merchants Score a Big Win in Their Battle for Interchange Relief
Illinois merchants scored a big victory late Tuesday in their battle for interchange relief as United States District Court Judge Virginia Kendall upheld the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The decision, which comes after more than a year of legal wrangling, means the IFPA will go into effect July 1, …
Read More »It’s CCCA Times Two As Congress Drops an Attachment Effort
Plans to attach an amended version of the Credit Card Competition Act to a cryptocurrency-infrastructure bill were shelved Thursday, effectively leaving two versions of the bill floating around Congress. The CCCA was amended late last week to include a provision that called for enforcement of the CCCA under antitrust law, …
Read More »Another CCCA Avenue? and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/26/26
The Merchants Payments Coalition released a letter from it and 350 merchant groups in support of the Credit Card Competition Act urging that the bill be attached to a proposed cryptocurrency marketplace structure legislation. The measure is expected to be discussed Tuesday by the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee. The New England Automated …
Read More »COMMENTARY: Trump’s Revival of the CCCA Is Bad News for the Big Networks—And for Market Rates
The Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) was dead in the water. Most of Congress would have preferred to leave it that way, avoiding a vote in which they would have to take sides between two powerful interests: banks and merchants. But President Trump, with a single Truth Social post on …
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