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December, 2022

• 9 December

  COMMENTARY: How Banks And Credit Unions Can Create a Top of Wallet Experience for Consumers

  

  As the holiday season continues and the cost-of-living rises, shoppers are searching for meaningful yet budget-friendly gifts for loved ones. Consumers need financial flexibility to make large purchases without using their entire paycheck to do so. Buy now, pay later solutions continue to rise in popularity as consumers search for …
• 9 December

  Blackhawk Launches One4All Gift Card And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/9/22

  

  Prepaid card platform Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. launched its One4All gift card, a single gift card accepted at more than 100 merchants and restaurants. The card is issued by Pathward N.A., a unit of Pathward Financial. Matera, a Brazil-based instant payments and QR code payments company, opened an office in San Francisco …
• 8 December

  Limited U.S. Growth in 2023 And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/8/22

  

  Not all countries, companies, and persons will suffer equally from inflation in 2023, as Europe will see a decline in economic activity while the U.S. market will experience limited economic growth, forecasts the Mastercard Economics Institute. Food-service provider Sodexo North America’s InReach unit has contracted with payments provider Cantaloupe to upgrade 18,800 vending machiens and …
• 8 December

  Airwallex Enlists Plaid in an Effort to Streamline ACH Transactions for Its Merchants

  

  Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech, has partnered with Plaid Inc. to enable merchants in the United States to streamline transactions initiated through the automated clearing house. Airwallex merchants can leverage Plaid’s open-banking technology to authorize adding funds to their Airwallex wallet from an external bank account or to accept payments from …
• 8 December

  Small Business Owners Most Like AmEx, Closely Followed by Chase and BofA

  

  A new report from J.D. Power finds that small-business owners, struggling to offset inflation’s impact and supply-chain issues, continue to rely on their credit cards. American Express Co. cards for small businesses scored highest in the 2022 U.S. Small Business Credit Card Satisfaction Study from J.D. Power. This is the …
• 7 December

  How Consumers Are Steadily Adopting Online And Mobile Channels for Bill Pay

  

  Digital bill payment has become table stakes for billers as consumers have increasingly gravitated toward paying their bills through mobile and online channels the past two years, according to a recent survey by EngageSmart, a provider of a customer-engagement and payment applications. The study reveals that 50% of respondents say …
• 7 December

  Crypto’s Headaches Started Long Before the Collapse of FTX, According to App Stats

  

  Jitters about the economy and the impact of the FTX implosion may have combined to clobber the cryptocurrency market, but new data shows that app downloads peaked as long as a year ago. In fact, downloads of crypto trading apps from the App Store, and Google Play, along with direct …
• 7 December

  Clickatell’s Travel Chat Updates And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/7/22

  

  The messaging app Clickatell added updates to its Chat Commerce Platform, including a new integration of Chat 2 Pay, which allows travel brands to accept payments as part of business messages. The card-issuing platform Marqeta Inc. announced it has integrated Mastercard Track Instant Pay, which enables immediate payment of supplier invoices. The virtual-card platform Extend announced …
• 6 December

  Eye on E-Commerce: GoDaddy’s Platform for WordPress, And Aeropay’s Mosaic Move

  

  The big Internet services provider GoDaddy Inc. said on Tuesday it is using its Manage WooCommerce Stores technology to help sellers open and manage a store on the WordPress online platform. The move, which could bring more small sellers into the e-commerce fold, is aimed at untangling the complexity GoDaddy …
• 6 December

  Looking to Sharpen Its Edge in Merchant Services, NMI Acquires Agreement Express’s Payments Assets

  

  Payment platform provider NMI has acquired Agreement Express Inc.’s merchant onboarding, underwriting, and monitoring technologies. The acquisition, which is for the payments portion of Agreement Express’s total business, is aimed at allowing NMI to provide integrated software vendors, independent sales organizations, and fintechs with tools that can speed up merchant …