Mastercard Inc. announced early Tuesday it is acquiring Minna Technologies, a provider of subscription-management applications. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will enable consumers to more easily manage, renew, and cancel their subscriptions by providing them a single view of all their subscriptions within their banking apps …
Read More »PayPal Updates Its User Agreement to Collect More Personalized Information
Beginning next summer, PayPal Holdings Inc. will begin sharing more personalized shopper information with merchants, as outlined in its recently updated PayPal Privacy Statement. Data such as products, preferences, sizes, and styles will be shared with merchants to “help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you,” …
Read More »Stax Acquires BlockChyp and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/1/24
Payments-technology provider Stax announced it has acquired payments-gateway provider BlockChyp. Terms were not announced. Payments provider TrustCommerce said its Cloud Payments platform has been certified by all major U.S. processors, including Fiserv, Chase, Elavon, Global Payments/TSYS, and Worldpay. The temporary-staffing platform Indeed Flex is working with payment provider Branch to launch a service called Same Day …
Read More »Wero Ramps Up As a European Account-to-Account Payments Provider And Heads to the Point of Sale
European banks are beginning to roll out a new digital wallet called wero that initially provides account-to-account payments and is expected to be expanded to retail payments as well. If so, wero could prove to be a competitive threat to Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., which dominate European payments, raising …
Read More »Paymentus Brings Digital Billing and Payments to Altera Digital Health
Paymentus Holdings Inc., a provider of cloud-based bill-payment technology, has reached an agreement with health-care information-technology provider Altera Digital Health Inc. to include its electronic bill- presentment and payments platform in Altera’s suite of healthcare IT solutions. The deal is expected to streamline the billing and payment processes for health-care providers …
Read More »Strava Teams With Cash App and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/27/24
Strava, an online community for athletes, said it is working with Block Inc.’s Cash App unit to launch this year’s HBCU Homecoming Tour, which features running events at U.S. universities. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reportedly seeking comment on Apple Inc.’s practices with respect to contactless payments as the regulator works on …
Read More »Profit-Challenged Lightspeed Acknowledges It’s Exploring ‘A Range of Strategic Alternatives’
Point-of-sale and payments-platform provider Lightspeed Commerce Inc. said Thursday it is exploring “strategic alternatives” in the wake of reports the company might put itself up for sale. “While it is the long-standing policy of Lightspeed not to comment on market rumors, the company notes the recent media reports concerning a …
Read More »Nuvei’s New Services and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/25/24
Payments processor Nuvei Corp. launched a number of new services, including decoupled pay-ins and payouts, and split payments. Embedded-finance fintech Sunbit announced an integration with payments-technology platform Stripe. The move will bring Sunbit’s services to a wider array of in-person service businesses, the company says. Business-automation provider BlueBean Technologies Inc. said it has completed an integration …
Read More »AppBrilliance Teams With Wallet Factory to Bring Real Time Payments to Digital Wallets
AppBrilliance Inc., a provider of real-time payments, has partnered with digital-wallet solutions provider Wallet Factory to enable real-time payments on Wallet Factory’s platform. Wallet Factory will use AppBrilliance’s Money API to enable payments on closed-loop digital wallets via The Clearing House’s RTP and the Federal Reserve’s FedNow networks. AppBrilliance launched …
Read More »Mothership Opts for UnionPay and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/24/24
Logistics provider Mothership Technologies Inc. announced it has adopted UnionPay as a payment option to ease international transactions. First Pacific Bank will adopt FedNow real-time payments through a connection to software provider Finastra’s Payments to Go platform. Relay Payments said it is extending its trucking and logistics payments network to Love’s Travel Stops. The …
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