Competitive Strategies

Payment card manufacturer CPI Card Group Inc. said net sales of debit and credit cards grew 22% year-over-year to $62.7 million in the third quarter. Net sales of prepaid debit cards dipped 1% to $20.6 million. For the nine months through September, credit and debit card sales rose 19% to $180.9 million, …

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s top executives late Monday laid out what chief executive Dan Schulman called “a fundamental overhaul” of the company’s PayPal and Venmo apps that will include a new cryptocurrency feature as well as bill payment and QR code capability on top of near-field communication technology and PayPal’s Pay …

Spurred by consumers’ need to send money to family and friends during the Covid-19 pandemic and an increasing number of financial institutions being onboarded, the Zelle peer-to-peer payment network announced Monday it processed $84 billion in transactions during the third quarter of 2020, up 18% from the second quarter. Consumers …

As consumers adopt real-time payments in the coming years, payments providers are expecting businesses large and small to follow suit. News released Monday indicates preparations are already under way. Canadian processor Everlink Payments Services Inc. and Fintainium Inc., a Jacksonville, Fla.-based developer of cloud-based technologies for financial institutions, have agreed …

The four-week average purchase amount for contactless transactions made with a debit card is $20.53, lower by 49% from the $40.43 overall average for purchases made with debit cards, said PSCU, a credit union service organization, in its weekly Tracking Transactions Trends report.Nacha announced that Nivelo Inc., a specialist in payments security for …

The buy now, pay later payment option continues to barrel ahead as Covid-weary consumers seek new sources of credit at the point of sale. In the latest news, Splitit Payments Ltd., said it is testing the integration of a Visa Inc. application programming interface for installment payments and Sezzle Inc. …

Covid-19 has been highly disruptive to the U.S. retail sector, with research estimating sales will fall by 10.5% this year. The same forecast suggests small, mainly brick-and-mortar retailers will see a 14% drop in sales. Even now, months after the pandemic’s first appearance in the U.S market, forty-five percent of …

The Western Union Co. reported third-quarter revenue of $1.259 billion, down 4% year-over-year. Peer-to-peer transactions in the quarter totaled 77.3 million, up 6%.MoneyGram International Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $323.2 million, down 1% year-over-year on a constant-currency basis. Digital transactions accounted for a 27% share of all money transfers in the quarter.Amazon.com …

Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale technology business on Wednesday unveiled Scan to Order, which allows consumers to access a menu and pay for their meal by scanning a QR code at the table or the order window. The application reflects an emerging trend among restaurants to shift interactions between customers and …

Processor Global Payments Inc. reported adjusted net revenue of $1.746 billion for the third quarter, down 4% year-over-year on a combined basis. Global acquired processor TSYS Inc. last year.FIS Inc. reported total third-quarter revenue for its merchant-processing unit of $1.02 billion, up 44% year-over-year. The lift comes chiefly from the acquisition of the …