Payments provider Payroc LLC announced a deal with PayTomorrow that will enable merchants, especially those selling high-ticket durable goods, to offer installment payments in stores, online, and via phone.Zuza LLC said it is providing its BloomPOS system to Payroc. Aimed at salons, spas, and gyms, the technology enables such functions as appointment scheduling …
Read More »As States Give the Nod to Sports Betting, Paysafe Adds Fubo Gaming to Its Roster of Clients
Paysafe Group Holdings Ltd. extended its foray into the booming sports-betting industry, announcing a partnership Thursday with Fubo Gaming, a Chicago-based subsidiary of live TV-streaming platform fuboTV Inc. Fubo Gaming’s mobile sportsbook and Fubo Sportsbook applications will plug into Paysafe’s platform for credit and debit card payments, the Skrill USA …
Read More »Discover’s Meal Plan Strategy and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/29/21
Discover Network said it will work with Phood Solutions Inc., a food-payment and delivery platform for college students, to provide a mobile app that allows students to load a meal plan along with plan dollars for use with DoorDash and other services. Payments will be backed by a Discover prepaid card …
Read More »Mastercard Joins An Increasingly Crowded BNPL Field With the Debut Of Mastercard Installments
Mastercard Inc. joined the BNPL fray Tuesday with the introduction of Mastercard Installments. Consumers can access BNPL offers, either pre-approved through their lender’s mobile banking app or through instant approval at checkout, that can be used online or in-store wherever Mastercard is accepted. Consumers can choose from a variety of …
Read More »39% Would Ditch Banks and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/28/21
Thirty-nine percent of consumers would ditch traditional banking for peer-to-peer and social media app payments, found a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers from GoCardless, which provides account-to-account payment services. Younger consumers are much more inclined than older consumers with 54% of Gen Z, the youngest, and 56% of Millennials, willing to …
Read More »CapOne Targets False Declines Using Signifyd and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/27/21
Capital One has partnered with fraud-detection firm Signifyd Inc. to raise authorization rates and reduce mistakenly declined transactions on Cap One credit card transactions.The Internal Revenue Service on Friday sent more than 430,000 Advance Child Tax Credit payments via same-day ACH on the automated clearing house network, according to Nacha, the governing body …
Read More »Startup Clik2pay Enables Consumers to Tap Their Bank Account For Online Purchases
Seeking to provide online merchants with a lower-cost payment option and consumers a better user experience, a 3-year-old, Toronto-based payment-service startup called Clik2pay is enabling Canadian consumers to pay for online purchases directly from their bank accounts at participating merchants. The new payment option, which launched Thursday, leverages the Interac …
Read More »AmEx Expands Virtual Card Offerings and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/24/21
American Express Co. said it is working with Extend, a virtual card specialist, to expand its virtual card options for U.S. businesses.Gift card provider Factor4 LLC said it is work with SavorConnect, a cloud-based integration platform, to make its gift cards that can used online, in stores, and with mobile devices available on …
Read More »BNPL Consumers Are Not Shy About Using Credit Products, a TransUnion Report Finds
New research suggests buy now, pay later users may not be shunning traditional retail credit products in favor of the installment-payment option. That’s one finding from TransUnion LLC’s “Understanding the Evolving Point-of-Sale” report released Thursday. The data show that 76% of the point-of-sale financing applicants had a retail card in …
Read More »Repay Teams with Veem for Cross-Border Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/23/21
Payments-technology provider Repay Holdings Corp. has agreed to partner with business-to-business funds-transfer fintech Veem Inc. to increase cross-border payment options. At the same time, Veem will deploy Repay’s business-to-business virtual card and acquiring platform.InsurCard, a payment processor specializing in health care, launched a Mastercard debit card for persons who have received a …
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