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Mastercard Inc. executives are paying close attention to a new proposal in the U.S. Congress that could alter merchant choice in routing credit card payments. Concurrently, its earnings are riding the crest of a wave that includes consumer spending and the resurgence in travel. A bipartisan bill sponsored by senators Richard …

Daystar Payments has launched as a payments processor aiming to sign 1,000 independent sales organizations by the end of 2023, with a focus on attracting minority-owned businesses.Weave, a provider of customer-communication technology, launched a buy now, pay later platform for health-care providers. The company introduced a payment-processing platform in late 2019.The Strawhecker Group, …

Visa Inc. late Tuesday reported a continued recovery in cross-border payments, double-digit increases in U.S. payments volume, and no let-up in the industry’s general shift to contactless payment. It also faced a question regarding Visa Direct and its links to instant peer-to-peer payments services that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …

Consumers making a mobile payment at least once a week increased to 58% in the first half of 2022, compared with 46% in the same period in 2021, according to ACI Worldwide Inc.’s latest 2022 ACI Speedpay Pulse survey.E-commerce specialist Signifyd said a survey it commissioned found that 66% of respondents cut back their …

Merchant acquiring is Fiserv Inc.’s largest and fastest-growing business, and in the second quarter it showed no signs of slowing down. Driven by technologies like Clover, a set of point-of-sale gear, and Carat, a fast-growing commerce platform, the acquiring unit posted $1.9 billion in revenue in the quarter ended June …

A whopping 2,276 more grocery stores soon will accept electronic benefits transfer payments for online grocery shopping. In one move, Albertsons Cos., parent of Albertsons, Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Vons, and Pavilions stores, said the payment option is now available across its stores. Albertsons said more of its 22 brands will add …

Dee Hock, who died Saturday at 93, may not have single-handedly founded the modern electronic payments industry, but he came closer than anyone else to claiming that mantle. He is widely credited as the force that harnessed a widely varied collection of banks to start the credit card system that …

Discover Financial Services saw its overall dollar volume increase 10% year-over-year in the second quarter despite a flat performance by Discover’s Pulse debit network. Riverwoods, Ill.-based Discover said late Wednesday that total payment volume in the quarter ended June 30 was $138.7 billion versus $125.6 billion in the year-earlier period. …

NCR Corp., a publicly traded banking and payments equipment manufacturer and software provider, could go private if rumors of a pending leveraged buyout prove true. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that NCR was in exclusive talks with the private-equity firm Veritas Capital about a possible acquisition. The report noted …

The total volume of tokenized payment transactions worldwide will exceed 1 trillion by 2026, up from 680 billion this year, according to a report released Monday by Juniper Research. The growth will come mostly from click-to-pay options that allow buyers to pay with a single click, using tokenized credentials, the …