As consumers return to physical stores, Splitit USA Inc., a buy now, pay later provider, announced it is making its service available in-store and including availability with Apple Pay and Google Pay.Fly Now Pay Later, a United Kingdom-based fintech, announced a deal with Cross River Bank in New Jersey that will …
Read More »BlocPal And OneFeather Team to Deliver Services Via Mobile Wallets to Canada’s Indigenous People
As part of its goal to provide unbanked and underbanked consumers affordable digital access to financial services through a single application, BlocPal International Inc. has partnered with OneFeather, a Victoria, British Columbia-based provider of digital services to indigenous people in Canada, to introduce the OneFeather app in that country. The …
Read More »Allied in NYDIG Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/6/21
Allied Payment Network Inc., a provider of online and mobile bill-payment services, said it will work with New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) institutions using Allied to offer customers the ability to buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin. Allied said it and NYDIG plan to add digital payments via Bitcoin.Reuters reported …
Read More »PayPal’s U.S. POS Thrust With Zettle May Have Been ‘Inevitable,’ But It Faces Tough Rivalry
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s decision to bring its Zettle point-of-sale technology to the U.S. market may not surprise observers, but the move presents some formidable challenges, chiefly in the form of the existing competition, some observers say. At the same time, they add, Zettle brings a potent brand that fills a …
Read More »R1 RCM Finalizes VisitPay Acquisitions and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/2/21
Health-care technology provider R1 RCM Inc. has closed on its acquisition of VisitPay LLC, a platform specializing in medical payments. R1 announced in early May it would acquire VisitPay for approximately $300 million in cash.Personal-finance app provider Charlie Finance Co. announced new services, including DirectPay, which lets users link credit cards to the app …
Read More »Contactless Parking Expands As ParkMobile Grows Its Presence in North Carolina
ParkMobile LLC Thursday expanded its partnership with parking-lot operator The Car Park to Raleigh, Asheville, and Boone, North Carolina. Previously, The Car Park worked with another payment provider in those cities. The deal also builds on an existing relationship The Car Park has with ParkMobile in Tampa, Boise, Estes Park, …
Read More »COMMENTARY: The Case for Integrated Payments Providers
If there’s a software need for your business—accounting, payroll management, lease portfolio management, and the like— then it’s likely your business is working with several different vendors at any given point during the working day. All the vendors you are working with won’t always be obvious, particularly if you’re working …
Read More »After a Covid Shutdown, a Florida Road Authority Revives Its Visitor Toll Pass Program
Fifteen months after suspending its popular Visitor Toll Pass program due to travel restrictions placed on tourists moving through Orlando International Airport during the Covid pandemic, the Central Florida Expressway Authority on Wednesday rebooted the program. The Visitor Toll Pass, which debuted in May 2019 and was suspended in March …
Read More »Cardknox Is the Latest Player to Adopt QR Codes for Contactless Payments
As the popularity of using quick-response codes for payment at the point-of-sale grows, the trend toward offering the technology to software developers and merchants has gained momentum and now includes small and mid-sized processors. Omnichannel payment gateway Cardknox Development Inc. on Monday became the latest processor to enter the fray, …
Read More »Digital Channels Remain Popular for Bill Pay As Covid Fades, an ACI Study Finds
Consumers’ use of digital channels to pay bills continues to rise even as the Covid-19 pandemic begins to ease, according to a study by ACI Worldwide Inc. In looking at how consumers’ use of digital channels, such as Web sites and mobile apps, has grown during the first half of …
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