Automated Clearing House

OnShift Inc., a provider of human-capital management software for caregivers, is dropping the fees for earned-wage access through its digital wallet. OnShift’s wallet runs on the Payactiv platform. As part of the new arrangement, senior care workers using the OnShift wallet can access a portion of their earned wages outside …

Despite economic headwinds from supply-chain bottlenecks and geopolitical instability, the payments industry continues to show resilient revenue growth, says a new report from the Boston Consulting Group. Global payments revenues are projected to grow about 9.5% in 2022, according to the report. Beyond this year, revenues are projected to grow …

Square, the point-of-sale and e-commerce unit of Block Inc., said Tap to Pay on iPhone is now commercially available to its merchants following a June release to select sellers. Available within the Square Point of Sale iOS app, Tap to Pay on iPhone enables merchants to accept contactless payments directly …

Volante Technologies, a U.S.-based payments platform, said it is providing a banking portal for ACH Colombia, a fintech based in that South American country, as part of an effort to digitize ACH Colombia’s payments infrastructure.Payments-technology company Payscout LLC said it will offer a direct link to its Paywire platform to users of …

As payments fraud grows more threatening by the year, a report on Thursday from the governing body for the automated clearing house network recommends the payments industry shift its emphasis from combatting unauthorized debits to preventing crimes involving credit payments. Dubbed a “new risk-management framework,” the recommendation issued by Nacha …

Galileo Financial Technologies LLC said late Tuesday it is partnering with DataVisor Inc. to enhance its fraud-detection technology beyond credit cards to include such payments options as debit cards and the automated clearing house. The new technology will also include provisioning and onboarding of new accounts. The partnership comes as …

The big processor FIS Inc. launched Worldpay for Platforms, a service that lets software providers speed up access to FIS’s Worldpay processing unit while onboarding small and medium-size merchants.PayMyTuition, a payments platform for colleges and universities, launched a cashiering module that lets schools set up multiple cashier stations to process campus payments …

Lavu, a payments-technology provider specializing in restaurants, said it is partnering with Up ‘n Go, a vendor of contactless-payment technology based on QR codes, for pay-at-table checkouts.Data from the Bank of America Institute indicate overall consumer spending seen by the big bank in August was up 13% over the same month in …

Nacha, the regulatory body for the automated clearing house network, has named open-banking specialist MX Technologies Inc. a member of its Preferred Partner Program. MX is the 30th company to be named to the program.Consumers’ top five favorite ways to pay are debit cards, credit cards, cash, contactless, and mobile wallets, according …

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday afternoon narrowed the window for the launch of FedNow, its real-time payment service, to the weeks between May and July of 2023. The announcement, which came in a short address by Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard, is the latest in a series of updates …