Transaction Processing

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Tuesday announced it has appointed board chairman Enrique Lores president and chief executive, replacing Alex Chriss. Lores moves into his new position after more than six years as CEO at HP Inc. The company also reported December-quarter results in the face of a steep drop in …

Chalk up another way for merchants and consumers to use Paze, the digital wallet from Early Warning Services LLC, as a deal between Deluxe Corp. and Payfinia seeks to make it easier for independent software vendors to incorporate Paze into their software apps. Payfinia, formed by Tyfone in 2024 to …

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, …

Visa Inc. chief executive Ryan McInerney touted the card network’s ability to build and deliver innovations and scalable technologies as drivers behind the company’s strong fiscal first quarter 2026 results.  Processed-transaction dollar volume grew 8% year-over-year in the quarter to nearly $4 trillion in constant dollars, with transactions up 9% …

Mastercard Inc. grew its fourth-quarter net revenue by double digits in the face of a market that has forced payments companies to wrestle with a slew of knotty considerations, including the potential impact of a major bill that would cap credit card rates and the dizzying effect of fast moves …

Business-to-business and same-day ACH were standout segments of Nacha’s automated clearing house transactions in 2025. Released Thursday, total volume of 35.2 billion payments in 2025 made with the ACH payment method were up 5% over 2024. Reston, Va.-based Nacha, the ACH rules maker, says these transactions were valued at $93 …

Deluxe Corp. reported $2.13 billion in 2025 revenue, up 0.5% from $2.12 billion in 2024. Its net income, however, grew even more reaching $85.3 million in 2025, up 61.2% from $52.9 million the year prior. In the fourth quarter, Deluxe had $535.5 million in revenue, up 2.8% from $520.5 million in …

Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment service operated by Early Warning Services LLC, announced late Tuesday 337 financial institutions joined the network in 2025. The majority of the institutions are community banks and credit unions with assets of less than $10 billion. The influx of new financial institutions gives Zelle access to …

Elavon Live Payments is a new payments app for Microsoft 365 users that acquirer Elavon says it designed to make it easier for businesses to collect online payments. Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based productivity suite that includes Outlook, an email app. Elavon Live Payments enables users to send invoices via …