Payments-technology provider Aevi said it is working with contactless-technology firm Bleu to offer tap-to-pay functionality in North America and Europe on both Android and iPhone devices. Cross River Bank said it will enable an expanded menu of payment options through open-banking platform Plaid, including instant transfers for payroll and other applications. Payments provider Lightspeed …
Read More »POS Technology Helps Deliver Double-Digit Growth for Fiserv’s Acquiring Unit
The merchant-acquiring business helped deliver a strong quarter for Fiserv Inc. as the big processor reported Wednesday its ninth consecutive period of organic revenue growth, or growth stemming from existing rather than recently acquired businesses. The Brookfield, Wis.-based company singled out its Clover point-of-sale technology for special mention as a …
Read More »Euronet’s Growth And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/26/23
Payments provider Euronet Worldwide Inc. said its money-transfer segment handled 41.1 million transactions in the second quarter, up 10% from 37.3 million a year earlier. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates national banks, assessed a $15 million civil fine against American Express Co.’s American Express National …
Read More »Visa’s CEO Delicately Fields Questions About the Company’s Merchant Relations
Visa Inc.’s top brass, during the company’s quarterly earnings conference call Tuesday afternoon, preferred to talk about fast-growing newer lines of business such as value-added services and transaction sources apart from traditional plastic credit and debit cards. But stock analysts on the call had questions about some sensitive merchant-relations issues, …
Read More »The CCCA Won’t Harm Card Issuers’ Ability to Fund Rewards Cards, MPC Says
The latest battle in the war over the proposed Credit Card Competition Act has focused on the question whether the legislation would cut rewards and other benefits for cardholders. Citing research from the consulting firm CMSPI, the Merchants Payments Coalition, a lobbying group for sellers, argues that passage of the …
Read More »As Instant Payments Make Headlines, Same-Day Payments Continue to Lift the ACH
Growth in same-day automated clearing house volumes slowed in the second quarter, but same-day ACH is still posting impressive gains from 2022, according to the latest data from ACH governing body Nacha. Herndon, Va.-based Nacha says the second quarter saw 199.4 million same-day ACH payments, up 7.7% from 185.1 million …
Read More »NCR’s New Names And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/25/23
NCR Corp. announced names for its two major business units once the company spins off its ATM operations, with both retaining the NCR moniker. The digital-commerce business will be called NCR Voyix, while the ATM operations will be named NCR Atleos. FIS Inc.’s Worldpay processing unit launched Revenue Boost, a service based on …
Read More »The Clearing House’s RTP Network Surpasses 500 Million Payments
Six years after its launch, the RTP Network surpassed 500 million real-time payments on Saturday, network operator The Clearing House Payments Co. reported Monday. The announcement at least temporarily shines the spotlight back onto the current leader in real-time payments in the wake of last week’s much-anticipated launch of the …
Read More »With Its Chainwide Whole Foods Move, Amazon Signals Palm Checkout Is Ready for Prime Time
The planned expansion of Amazon.com Inc.’s palm-reading point-of-sale technology to all of the company’s 515 U.S. Whole Foods stores, a move the online retailer announced late last week, could represent a major leap for an authentication method few if any other backers have tried. The technology, introduced three years ago …
Read More »Mastercard And Virtual Cards And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/24/23
Mastercard Inc. launched Mastercard Receivables Manager, aimed at streamlining the process businesses use to accept and process transactions on virtual cards. The 20-year-old billing platform eLabs announced it has rebranded itself as Vizibill. The Bitcoin ATM network Bitcoin Depot Inc. reported it expects second-quarter revenue to total between $196 million and $198 million, up …
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