Automated Clearing House

The impact of the economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic has affected payments of all sorts, but perhaps none so much as consumer bill payments. Indeed, some 56% of consumers said it was harder to pay bills because they’d lost their jobs or had sustained a reduction in income, …

Point-of-sale credit provider Affirm Inc. said it raised $500 million in a series G funding round. Lead investors were GIC and Durable Capital Partners LP. Affirm also introduced an interest-free biweekly payment product for transactions of as little as $50. It also announced that NutriBullet, a small-appliance maker, offers Affirm as a payment …

Convenience-store operators wanting another way to accept payments for lottery games have a decoupled-debit option with the launch of the BuyLottoNow program. The program, provided by iVertical Payment Network LLC, Boca Raton, Fla., charges no fees to merchants, but charges consumers 30 cents per transaction. Consumers enroll a checking account …

VSoft Corp., a provider of digital-banking and payment solutions to financial institutions, on Wednesday launched the Bread network, a peer-to-peer, consumer-to-business, business-to-consumer, and business-to-business payment network.  Bread enables real-time payments between financial institutions within its network. Money sent and money received is kept within the users’ respective financial-institution accounts, as …

Cash ATM withdrawals were down 14.6% for the week ending Sept. 6 among credit unions serviced by PSCU. The credit union service organization’s weekly transaction trends report found that while down, the rate is better than the 21.8% average decrease for the past four weeks.Co-Op Financial Services said an alliance with debit …

The years-long effort to bring real-time payments to the United States picked up steam on Thursday with an announcement from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC that 70% of U.S. deposit accounts can now access real-time capability via agreements between TCH and third-party processors. “What we’re talking about here is …

Nearly all persons use the cloud in their personal lives, from storing photos and accessing financial accounts to sharing documents and watching movies. But when it comes to the business world, the transition to cloud-based systems has been a slower migration, especially when it comes to business-to-business payments.  While check …

Point-of-sale credit provider Quadpay Inc. said it is working with Mastercard Vyze, the card brand’s alternative financing platform, to make buy-now-pay-later options available to more merchants and consumers.Noting the increasing popularity in Canada of Square Inc.’s Cash App and PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Venmo app in the face of that country’s Interac bank-to-bank …

With consumers and many businesses wary of cash and checks in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, businesses may be more inclined than ever to pivot to real-time payments, according to research released Tuesday. Out of 252 corporate executives surveyed in June, a slim 9% said they had no plans …

Card-brand giant Visa Inc. is joining a payment-information exchange test operated by Nacha, the network operator for the automated clearing house system. Dubbed Phixius, the exchange could expedite the sharing of payment information between payees and payers and can allow for multiple payment types, including ACH, wire, card, and others. …