Payment technology provider InComm Payments is partnering with Mobility Capital Finance (MoCaFi), a mobile-based banking platform, to enable MoCaFi Mobility Debit Mastercard cardholders to load their cards at no charge. MoCaFi will absorb any costs related to the reload. The deal enables MoCaFi, which serves unbanked and underbanked customers, to offer …
Read More »Buy Now, Pay Later Payments Coming to Gap Brands with Afterpay Integration
Point-of-sale installment lender Afterpay Ltd. has agreed to provide its buy now, pay later service to customers of Gap Inc., including its Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta brands. Afterpay’s buy now, pay later service enables consumers to make four interest-free installment payments. The retailer is paid in full, …
Read More »Contactless Payment a First for 53% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/11/20
Research from Inmar Intelligence found that 53% of shoppers used a mobile contactless payment option for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Additionally, most—55%—of the 1,000 respondents surveyed said they have been avoiding using cash in general in the same period. A full 28% will avoid retailers not offering …
Read More »Contactless Payment Provider Purewrist Partners With Processor i2c
Purewrist, a provider of contactless transaction technology, announced Tuesday its Purewrist GO wearable bracelet will go live on card issuer and processor i2c Inc.’s platform. Purewrist chose i2c as its payment processor because of i2c’s global footprint and its platform’s support for devices that enable contactless and mobile transactions, says …
Read More »Walmart in Canada Will Introduce Debit on Apple Pay And Google Pay Via Interac
Walmart Inc. will start next spring allowing customers in Canada to pay with debit in-app and in-browser using wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay, the Canadian national payments network Interac announced Tuesday. Interac positions the new service as enabling so-called proprietary wallets, which it confirmed includes the apps from …
Read More »Nacha’s First Phixius Transaction and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/10/20
Nacha announced the first transactions on its Phixius network, which facilitates information exchange between payors and payees using the automated clearing house network. The Phixius network relies on standardized open application programming interfaces. Nacha announced in February its intention to develop Phixius. Visa Inc. joined in August.Authentication services provider Paay and Bluefin Payment Systems, …
Read More »Eye on Digital Payments: How Covid Is Impacting Business Payments; Contactless Guidance Emerges
The Covid-19 pandemic, which is surging again in many parts of North America, has proven to be a tipping point for digital business payments, says a white paper released Monday from WEX Inc., a provider of payment technology for fleet operators and travel and health-care businesses. Of the 308 senior …
Read More »Its SPAC Merger Behind It, Paya Reports Growth ‘Momentum’ From ACH
Paya Holdings Inc. is known for its base in integrated payments and for its processing concentration in card-not-present transactions. But what also became clear early Monday is its growing strength in bringing capability for automated clearing house payments to its roster of clients. “We have good momentum there,” said chief …
Read More »PDI in Touch-Free Payment Service with NCR and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/9/20
Professional Datasolutions Inc., which acquired private-label debit provider ZipLine in June, said it is working with NCR Corp. on a touch-free mobile payment service for the convenience-store industry.Payment card use among travel companies remained substantially down year-over-year, according to the Tracking Transaction Trends report from PSCU, a credit union service organization, for the …
Read More »Visa Hits Back After the Justice Department Challenges the Network’s $5.3-Billion Plaid Deal
Visa Inc. on Thursday delivered a rebuke to the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit attempting to block its $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid Inc., calling the lawsuit “legally flawed and contradicted by the facts.” The Department of Justice, which had filed the suit hours earlier, charges that Visa’s deal for …
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