i3 Verticals Inc. generated $93.9 million in fiscal third quarter revenue, up 16.5% from $80.6 million in the corresponding quarter in 2022, ended June 30. Its quarterly loss widened to $6.7 million from $4.7 million last year for the same period. Rebate-management platform Vendavo announced a collaboration with Oracle to ease payments and …
Read More »Why Card Skimming, Already Bad, Is Getting Worse
Card skimming remains a vexing problem in the United States, with the number of reported incidents increasing 20% during the first half of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to the credit-data firm FICO. More concerning, however, is that the number of cards compromised as a result …
Read More »PayPal Revenue at $7.3 Billion And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/3/23
PayPal Holdings Inc. reported $7.3 billion in June-quarter net revenue, up 7% year-over-year, as total payment volume grew 11% to $376.5 billion. Payment transactions were up 10%, to 6.1 billion. Total active accounts increased only slightly to 431 million from 429 million a year ago. Net income swung from a loss …
Read More »ATMs in Transit And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/28/23
F.N.B. Corp., with its First National Bank unit, agreed to be the sole provider of ATMs for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, said to be the third-largest U.S. rail system. The push-payments platform Checkbook announced an integration with the peer-to-peer payments provider Zelle to enable instant payments for Checkbook users. Transact Campus, a …
Read More »NCR’s New Names And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/25/23
NCR Corp. announced names for its two major business units once the company spins off its ATM operations, with both retaining the NCR moniker. The digital-commerce business will be called NCR Voyix, while the ATM operations will be named NCR Atleos. FIS Inc.’s Worldpay processing unit launched Revenue Boost, a service based on …
Read More »Mastercard And Virtual Cards And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/24/23
Mastercard Inc. launched Mastercard Receivables Manager, aimed at streamlining the process businesses use to accept and process transactions on virtual cards. The 20-year-old billing platform eLabs announced it has rebranded itself as Vizibill. The Bitcoin ATM network Bitcoin Depot Inc. reported it expects second-quarter revenue to total between $196 million and $198 million, up …
Read More »NCR Moves Forward With Its Planned ATM Spin-Off
Leading ATM manufacturer NCR Corp. took a big step Monday toward its goal of splitting into two independent companies with the filing of a registration statement for the spin-off of its ATM business. After a strategic review that included the possible sale of the entire company, Atlanta-based NCR announced the …
Read More »CFPB Notes Payment App Insurance Lacking And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/2/23
The payments industry is beginning to react to a report this week from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alerting consumers to the lack of federal deposit insurance for funds held in nonbank payment apps. The CFPB’s report appears to be a cautionary note rather than a call for regulation, at least for …
Read More »FIS Profit up 17.5% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/27/23
Payment processor and core banking provider FIS Inc. posted first quarter revenue of $3.51 billion, a 0.6% increase from $3.49 billion in the same quarter in 2022. Its net income of $141 million was 17.5% greater than the $120 million profit a year ago. FIS’s merchant solutions segment had revenue of $1.1 …
Read More »The ACH And Debit Top the Growth Charts, According to the Latest Fed Study
Payments analysts looking for where the growth is can find it in the automated clearing house network and in debit cards. With respect to transaction volume, no U.S. payment system grew faster over the three years from 2018 to 2021 than the ACH, which posted a compound annual growth rate …
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