Transaction Processing

Mastercard announced early Wednesday it plans to introduce settlement options including weekends, holidays, and at times during the day of the transaction. The new settlement windows will apply to both card-based fiat transactions and those involving cards linked to regulated stablecoins, the network said. The move would expand availability beyond …

Work on growing the real-time payments ecosystem goes on with Payfinia completing an integration with The Clearing House Payments Co LLC’s RTP network and Aeropay making an integration with Jack Henry & Associates Inc. to boost its pay-by-bank service. Portland, Ore.-based Payfinia says its work with TCH, which launched the …

NMI announced early Tuesday it has acquired Fee Navigator, a provider of analysis for acquirers looking to price services for merchants. Terms were not disclosed. Schaumburg, Ill.-based NMI says the deal brings merchant-pricing capabilities supported by AI, adding to an arsenal of services the processor offers to independent sales organizations, independent …

MoneyGram has launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin called MGUSD, furthering its move into blockchain technology for payments. Soar Payments LLC, also known as SoarPay, announced the publication of “High Risk Merchant Accounts 101,” a guide to processing payments for high-risk and regulated businesses. Fifth Third Bank launched Report Phishing, a feature in …

A last-minute budget move will see the implementation date for the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act pushed back a year, to July 1, 2027. Originally scheduled to become law Monday, the IFPA would have seen interchange on sales tax and tips prohibited. How it would have been implemented has been …

Early Warnings Services LLC told Digital Transactions News in March that a marketing push for its 3-year-old Paze online checkout platform would be starting in coming months. Early Monday, that push arrived with the launch of a national campaign running on TV, digital video, and social platforms. The new advertising …

Payments fraudsters are embracing not just the transaction, but the associated elements of a transaction, such as exploiting account creation and changes prior to the payment. That’s one reason Accertify Inc. launched its Predictive Yes Platform. Itasca, Ill.-based Accertify says the new platform addresses these issues by combining identity, behavioral, …

Replit Inc., a Foster City, Calif.-based developer of software for the booming agentic-commerce market, announced it will work with Visa Inc. on an integration of Visa agentic commerce into Replit’s platform. The company also reported an investment from Visa, terms of which were not specified. Visa, which launched its Intelligent …

BTR, a truck-rental company, has compensated for almost $400,000 in annualized credit card acceptance costs through a surcharging a capability provided by payments processor BlueSnap Inc., according to data the processor released Wednesday. Waltham, Mass.-based BlueSnap launched its surcharging API in January in recognition of cases in which merchants want …

Nium Pte. Ltd., a provider of cross-border payments technology, is working with Circle Internet in a collaboration using stablecoins for settlement and local currency for last-mile delivery of country-to-country transactions. The project aims to solve what the partners say is a longstanding problem—fast payments that can slow considerably when it’s …