Jack Henry & Associates has launched PayrailzFraud Monitor, a real-time fraud-monitoring technology for payments. The cloud-native solution, which Jack Henry describes as an enhancement to its Payrailz platform, uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analytics to detect payments fraud as the fraud is occurring, with a scope including peer-to-peer and …

ACI Worldwide Inc. has launched its Instant Pay real-time payment solution in Europe and the United Kingdom. The move comes against the backdrop of a regulatory push in Europe mandating that financial institutions across the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) countries in Europe offer instant payments under the SEPA Instant …

For decades, payments providers have sought to displace cash by attempting to move merchants toward card-based and digital payments, arguing that they are faster, more convenient, and more secure to accept than cash. Now they are finding that proponents of cash acceptance are pushing back. Late Thursday, legislation was reintroduced …

Relay Payments, an Atlanta-based fintech, is rolling out its digital diesel-payment platform at more than 800 Pilot Travel Centers LLC locations. Pilot, which is owned by investment firm Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Pilot Corp., operates a chain of truck stops across the United States and Canada. In addition to its …

Fiserv Inc.’s Clover unit has made its latest entry in the highly competitive restaurant market with the Clover kitchen display system. The new system consolidates in-restaurant and online orders, a move some see as a growing need for restaurants as consumers return to dining out, while continuing to place online …

Although the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to develop a federal regulation governing the protection of consumer financial data shared through open banking, the agency says that open banking will be best served if it does not “micromanage” open banking itself. In October, the CFPB announced its intention to develop regulation …

Chase, the consumer and commercial banking division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the United States, has launched Chase Freedom Rise, a credit card aimed at consumers with no credit history. Cardholders earn 1.5% cash back on every purchase, pay no annual fee, and have no minimum threshold for redeeming …

Sylogist Ltd., a global provider of software-as-a-service to more than 2,000 public-sector customers across the government, nonprofit, and education sectors, has selected Nuvei Corp. as its payments processor. Nuvei will provide Sylogist with payments functionality including support for mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. In addition, Nuvei …

Card issuers and banks in Canada that offer apps featuring personal financial management tools are scoring higher in customer satisfaction and engagement than issuers and banks that don’t, according to research by J.D. Power. In a series of studies conducted earlier this year, J.D. Power found that many Canadian banks …

Worldpay, a unit of processor FIS Inc., has partnered with open-banking gateway and real-time payments network Volt to enable merchants to accept account-to-account payments from consumers. Through the use of application programming interfaces Volt will enable Worldpay merchants to initiate account-to-account (A2A) payments using open-banking technology. Open banking allows banks …