Block Inc., corporate parent of Square and Cash App, posted $5.5 billion in second-quarter revenue, a 25% jump from $4.4 billion in the same quarter a year ago, as the payments provider pushes on with its move to add larger merchants. The midmarket segment now accounts for 40% of its …

Independent sales organizations can’t do much without a sponsor bank, also known as an acquiring bank, to get them access to the payment card networks. As with most business endeavors, the complexity of finding a sponsor bank has increased. It’s a challenge that attendees at the 2023 Midwest Acquirers Association …

Two payments companies are tapping into consumers’ affinity for texting—more than 6 billion SMS text messages are sent daily, according to The Small Business Blog—with a bill-pay service and a program for merchants. First, Detroit-based Diversified Data Processing & Consulting Inc., known as DivDat, added a text-to-pay  feature to its …

As online sports betting and iGaming continue to grow, Paysafe Ltd. has struck another deal with a betting app. Announced Monday, its agreement with Betr, a sports-betting app from social-media influencer Jake Paul, will serve Paysafe customers in Ohio and Massachusetts. Betr launched in Ohio in January and in Massachusetts …

As digitalization of payments information continues to permeate society, the allure of getting a hold of that data illicitly is unabated. Already, for the first half of 2023, the number of U.S. data compromises is higher than the total compromises for every full year between 2005 and 2020, except for …

Entertainment-streaming platform Roku says a partnership with Shopify Inc. will provide viewers the ability to purchase products from Shopify merchants directly from their TV through Roku Action Ads. It works like this: When viewing an ad for a Shopify merchant, viewers press OK on their Roku remote to learn more …

Spotify, the digital-music service, has notified long-time customers it will no longer support payments from Apple Inc.’s App Store for premium subscriptions. Those customers who use the Apple service will be moved to Spotify’s free service and must transition to an alternative, such as PayPal or a credit card, for …

FedNow, the nation’s second real-time payments network set to debut in late July, says 41 financial institutions, 15 service providers, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury will be ready to send and receive transactions. All 57 have completed certification and testing for FedNow. The Federal Reserve said in 2019 …

As the payments industry waits a few more weeks for the expected July launch of the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments platform, the backer of a real-time payments service that is entering its sixth year readies for more business. Operated by The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, the Real Time …

PayPal Holdings Inc. is adding tap to pay on mobile phones to its U.S. Venmo users with business profiles. The Tap to Pay on Android technology enables merchants that accept Venmo payments to do so using conventional Android smart phones without having to attach a special payment dongle. The service …