Automated Clearing House

Peer-to-peer transactions have taken off as a way to pay digitally during the pandemic, and now the biggest bank-owned P2P network is getting a big lift through its integration with the country’s most extensive real-time payments network. Early Warning Services LLC announced early Thursday payments on its fast-growing Zelle P2P payments …

To support a cryptocurrency-payments launch set for April in the United States, London-based digital-payments platform Wirex has linked to crypto-trading firm Zero Hash. Harold Montgomery, former chief executive of independent sales organization Calpian Inc., is managing director for Wirex USA Inc.Parking-app provider ParkMobile LLC said its latest municipal agreement allows its app to be …

AeroPay, a fintech that provides payment processing service to cannabis businesses, said it and Olla, an e-commerce platform for cannabis retailers, will offer online payments. AeroPay will be integrated as a cashless payment method to consumers ordering online through white-labeled e-commerce sites provided by Olla. Payments are made via bank-to-bank …

Payments provider Lightspeed POS Inc. reported total revenue of $57.6 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, up 79% year-over-year. Revenue was $49.3 when excluding the recent acquisitions of payments providers ShopKeep and Upserve. The company’s merchant base grew 74% year-over-year to 115,000, or 84,000 excluding the acquisitions, up from 66,000.Fiserv Inc. and the Inclusive Innovation …

Growing numbers of consumers continue to grab their debit cards when shopping, with the overall U.S. spend made with debit cards up 25% for the week ending Jan. 17, compared to the week of Jan. 19, 2020, according to the PSCU Tracking Transaction Trends report issued Monday. Credit card spend was up …

For the nation’s automated clearing house network, payments trends already under way before the coronavirus pandemic are still unfolding—only faster.  ACH payments initiated on the Web to pay bills and make other transfers totaled 2.1 billion in 2020’s fourth quarter, a 15.2% increase year-over-year, Nacha reported Thursday. Herndon, Va.-based Nacha …

Nuvei Corp. said a wholly owned subsidiary has been approved to process sports-betting transactions in Tennessee, where sports wagers have been legal since 2019. Previously, Nuvei received approval to process sports betting in Colorado, Indiana, and West Virginia.Point-of-sale system provider Revel Systems said majority owner Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe made another investment …

Payments provide PPRO Financial Ltd. announced a $180-million funding round valuing the company at more than $1 billion.AeroPay, a payments provider specializing in the cannabis industry, said it is working with Blackbird, a cannabis software and delivery company, to process online ordering for cannabis businesses.U.S. payments provider WEX Inc. announced it will process …

Online account debiting has grown in usage and prominence as consumers and businesses turn to e-commerce in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. But now many businesses are reckoning with a rule that will take effect in March that requires sellers using the automated clearing house to perform more rigorous …

Vanco Payment Solutions Inc., a payments provider specializing in the educational and faith-based sectors, said it acquired SmartcareOS LLC, a software provider for child-care centers. Terms were not announced.Entrust Corp., a provider of technology for identity, payments, and data protection, announced it acquired HyTrust Inc., a vendor of data-encryption, key …