Competitive Strategies

Financial technology platform provider Adyen NV late Monday announced it will become the acquiring bank for global payments platform Klarna AB next year for markets in North America, Europe, and Asia. The deal expands the companies’ more than decade-old partnership through which Adyen offers Klarna’s payment options to consumers, including …

As readers of this article likely know, banks have traditionally kept customers’ financial data within their own closed systems. Open banking allows for financial data to be shared between banks and third-party service providers, using application programming interfaces. With open banking, consumers can dictate what data can be shared with …

Payments provider Usio Inc. says benefits administrator Genius Avenue will use multiple Usio payments products, including automated clearing house transfers and a prepaid card program, to serve its customers. Announced Monday, the partnership integrates Usio’s payments services with the Genius Avenue platform. Tucson, Ariz.-based Genius Avenue is keen to tap …

MiCamp Solutions said it increased its investment and involvement with Cocard, a unique owner-operated independent sales organization. Terms were not disclosed, though MiCamp said collectively the alliance will serve more than 46,000 merchants and process more than $40 billion in annual transaction volume. Payments provider Nuvei Corp. has agreed to process online transactions …

POSaBIT Systems Corp., a payments processor specializing in cannabis merchants, announced its third-quarter earnings along with plans for a point-of-sale device earmarked for cannabis retailing. The company said transaction volume for the quarter totaled $157.9 million, up 11% from the same period a year ago. Revenues for the quarter totaled …

Software companies are a preferred client for payment gateways, with 74% of gateways targeting them in their sales efforts, according to the latest edition of the Payment Gateway Directory from TSG, formerly The Strawhecker Group. TSG says in addition to software companies as favored clients, 83% of gateways target merchant …

The claims process begins today for merchants to file for a share of the $5.54-billion settlement of a massive lawsuit originally filed more than a decade ago that alleged that Visa, Mastercard, and banks had violated antitrust laws in setting fees for card acceptance. The number of merchants involved is expected to …

Payments-platform provider Payroc LLC has launched an application programming interface that enables clients to offer its PayByBank solution in the United States and Canada through a single interface. Before this launch, Payroc clients needed separate interfaces to offer PayByBank in each country. The single interface eliminates the need for multiple …

Relay Payments, a fintech specializing in payments for the trucking and logistics industries, added convenience-store chain Yesway to its roster of locations. Announced Thursday, the expansion adds to the more than 1,500 truck stops nationwide that accept Relay’s cardless payment method. Yesway also owns the Allsup convenience-store chain. Drivers who …

Priority Technology Holdings Inc. said its MX Merchant Suite software will integrate a platform from payments-technology provider Datacap. Mastercard Inc.’s Dynamic Yield technology unit launched a generative AI (artificial intelligence) tool that is aimed at helping consumers search for products in a merchant’s digital catalog. Authvia, a provider of tokenized pay-by-text technology, …