Diners visiting a fast-casual restaurant—think Chipotle, Five Guys—are more likely to choose a mobile wallet to pay rather than a payment app, according to data from disbursement platform Onbe. In its Payouts Landscape Report, 56% of consumers prefer to use a mobile wallet for paying at a fast-casual restaurant, compared …

The big automated clearing house network Nacha says the volume of ACH payments made at originating institutions increased 7.4% from 2023’s report on the top 50 originators and receivers. Nacha released its annual rankings Thursday and says the volume of ACH payments made at originating financial institutions accounted for 93.8% …

Payments provider NMI is counting on the addition of an artificial intelligence tool from Arcum to mitigate merchant retention. Announced Tuesday, the partnership integrates Arcum’s AI services with NMI’s Merchant Relationship Management platform, formerly known as IRIS CRM, to enable Schaumburg, Ill.-based NMI to get advance notice of possible attrition …

Ever-clever criminals are expanding their scope in information as well as funds. That’s according to the annual Identity Fraud Study released Tuesday by Javelin Strategy & Research. “The thing that was most surprising to me was that so many scam victims were also deceived into providing personally identifiable information (PII),” …

As point-of-sale systems, marketing platforms, and inventory management all find their way to small and large restaurants, there’s a growing need for operators to simplify their technology, finds a new report from Qu Inc., a restaurant platform. As part of its “2025 State of Digital Report,” Arlington, Va.-based Qu found …

Installment-payments specialist Affirm Holdings Inc. will include all of its products in data sent to credit-reporting agency Experian plc beginning April 1, while its more than four-year-old partnership with processing platform Adyen NV expands into the United Kingdom. San Francisco-based Affirm says the inclusion of all of its buy now, …

On-demand delivery platform DoorDash Inc. says Dollar General Corp. is the latest retailer to accept SNAP/EBT online payments in the DoorDash marketplace. SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that uses its own electronic benefits transfer payments service. The Dollar General addition of more than 16,000 stores nearly doubles the …

Buy now, pay later provider Zip Co. Ltd. is telling users it no longer will allow them to tap credit cards as a funding source. In an email this week, Zip says, “Starting in the next few weeks, you won’t be able to initiate new purchases through Zip using a …

As financial institutions help their customers counter fraud, Feedzai is releasing a tool to help FIs better identify potential scams. Dubbed ScamAlert, the service, which incorporates an artificial-intelligence utility, can help identify tactics criminals use to exploit consumers. Many consumers may initially fall for a scam through a phishing email; …

As credit and debit cards—and their digital doppelgangers—continue to find favor among consumers, the use of cash over the past 10 years has slipped from 44% of in-store spend to 15% in 2024, finds the latest Worldpay Global Payments Report. Released Tuesday, the report, now in its 10th year, says …