Automated Clearing House

Digital payments platform provider Buy It Mobility Networks Inc. is betting its new BuyPass application will further reduce the complexities around connecting to its platform for merchants that want to offer branded payment options that debit a consumer’s bank account. Launched Wednesday, the application drops a URL into a merchant’s …

Payments-technology firm Buy It Mobility launched BuyPass, a platform aimed at allowing merchants to more quickly launch automated clearing house and merchant-branded payments programs. BIM is working with network capabilities and virtual card technology from Discover Network to reduce the time and cost for merchant integration.Transaction-security firm Forter launched Smart Payments, a technology that uses the …

Four-year-old payments provider F1 Payments announced it has changed its name to Corvia, effective immediately.Electronic funds transfer network Shazam announced it is offering DocuCommand, a document-management service, to client banks and credit unions.Mastercard Inc. said it expanded its partnership with Fearless Fund, a venture capital fund created by women of color for women of …

If the nation’s second-largest bank is any indication, total consumer payments are booming despite the pandemic, while digital alternatives are gaining ground fast, in part because of the pandemic. Bank of America Corp. reported early Monday spending by consumer customers in January rose 17% compared to January last year, resulting …

The pandemic has “fast-tracked” adoption of the automated clearing house network for business-to-business payments, while transactions cleared and settled through the network on the same day they’re initiated are booming, according to full-year 2021 numbers released Thursday by Nacha, the governing body for the nationwide network. The annual results complement …

Nayax Ltd., a payments processor for vending machines, announced it has launched an EMV-compliant platform allowing multiple choices with a single transaction authorization.Hospitality-technology provider Bite Ninja said it has acquired Zenu, a provider of ordering and payment technology for restaurants. Terms were not announced.BlueOne Card Inc. said it is launching its BlueOne Card, …

The nation’s automated clearing house network handled 7.5 billion transactions in the fourth quarter of 2021, up 6.1% over the same period in 2020, Nacha reported Thursday. The growth was driven largely by gains in health-care and business-to-business payments, as well as robust increases in same-day ACH, the network’s faster-payments …

Mastercard Inc. launched Mastercard Track Instant Pay, a platform enabling instant payment of supplier invoices via virtual card transactions supported by machine learning. The service is available in the United States now, with plans to expand globally.Nuvei Corp. has been approved by the New York State Gaming Commission to process payments for …

Mobile-payments provider Boku Inc. is selling its Boku Identity Inc. unit to cloud-communication platform Twilio Inc. for $26.1 million upfront and another $6.2 million payable later to cover indemnities.Payments provider Lightspeed Commerce said its NuOrder technology will support orders and payments for women’s fashion platform Intermix, which operates 31 boutiques and an e-commerce site.Text …

Mastercard Inc. said it is enabling Mastercard-branded cards to be used for purchases on Coinbase’s upcoming NFT marketplace. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are digital goods.Accounting-automation company Bookkeep announced integrations with Stripe, Sage Intacct, and NetSuite. The company, which serves more than 600 retailers and restaurants, also offers links to Shopify, Square, Amazon, and …