Splitit USA Inc. furthered the expansion of buy now, pay later loans beyond the point-of-sale Wednesday through its parentship with letus (formerly RentMoola), a Vancouver, B.C.-based fintech that provides rent advances, credit reporting, and other consumer-credit solutions. By partnering with Splitit, letus can offer tenants the option of spreading monthly …
Read More »First American Payments Settles an FTC Complaint Regarding Deceptive Practices
First American Payment Systems has agreed to a proposed federal court order requiring the processor to repay $4.9 million to small businesses affected by what the Federal Trade Commission called deceptive practices, according to the FTC. The settlement, announced Friday, was made in the wake of charges by the FTC …
Read More »Blackhawk Teams Up With Aurus To Help Increase Digital Payments Access
Blackhawk Network Inc. is partnering with Aurus Inc., an omnichannel payments-platform provider, to increase consumer access to digital payments such as digital wallets and buy now, pay later loans. The deal is expected to provide merchants a single payments platform that supports myriad payment options, including general purpose and private-label …
Read More »MX Expands Its Open Banking Footprint Via Deals With Sionic And FuturePay
MX Technologies Inc. has expanded its reach into the emerging field of open banking through partnerships with Sionic Mobile Corp., a provider of consumer-to-business payments technology, and FuturePay Inc., a provider of digital revolving credit solutions for e-commerce merchants and their customers. Sionic is embedding MX’s instant account-verification and account-aggregation …
Read More »Amazon.com Launches a Digital Wallet to Simplify Money Management For Sellers
To help sellers more easily manage proceeds from sales on their Amazon stores and expand their business globally, Amazon.com Inc. late Monday launched a digital wallet that allows sellers to hold, view, and transfer funds from sales on the marketplace directly to their bank accounts. The wallet, which Amazon announced …
Read More »Global Digital Cross Border Transactions Are Exploding, a Researcher Reports
With digital domestic money transfers expected to exceed 300 billion transactions globally in 2026, up from a projected 207 billion transactions in 2022, a nearly 50% increase, new players are expected to push the envelope by introducing alternative forms of digital cross-border transfers, such as cryptocurrency and central digital bank …
Read More »Synchrony Jumps Into The BNPL Game With an Assist From Fiserv’s Clover App Market
Synchrony Financial is the latest entrant in the highly popular, and increasingly crowded, buy now, pay later market. The Stamford, Conn.-based provider of consumer-financing products is partnering with Fiserv Inc. to allow merchants using Fiserv’s Clover platform to offer BNPL as a consumer-financing option. Called SetPay in 4, Synchrony’s BNPL …
Read More »Car IQ’s App Looks to Bring Fueling to Sunoco Fleet Customers at Nearly 5,000 Stations
Car IQ Inc. has inked a deal with petroleum company Sunoco LP to allow Sunoco’s fleet customers to purchase fuel without a credit card. Businesses, government agencies, and other organizations participating in Sunoco’s fleet program will be able to pay for gas at nearly 5,000 Sunoco stations by summer’s end …
Read More »Eye On BNPL: Blackhawk Network Teams With Klarna; Zip And Sezzle Pull Plug On Merger
Blackhawk Network Inc. is partnering with buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB to let consumers use Klarna’s interest-free payment solutions at physical retail locations. The deal, announced Wednesday, will enable consumers to make use of Klarna in-store for such items as groceries, electronics beauty, and more when shopping within …
Read More »Sionic Says Its CODE Pay Brings Real-Time Payments to the Point of Sale
Sionic Mobile Corp., a provider of consumer-to-business payments technology, on Tuesday launched CODE Pay a free mobile app for merchants that facilitates bank-to-bank, real-time payments at the point-of-sale. “Merchants have been looking for ways to cut costs and to get off the card network rails,” says Sionic chief executive and …
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