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MoneyGram Online Revenue Increased 13% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/5/22

MoneyGram International Inc. said its MoneyGram Online digital service had second quarter revenue of $53.3 million, up 13% from $47 million in the same quarter in 2021. Its overall revenue of $329.6 million in the quarter, was up slightly from $329.3 million revenue in the 2021 second quarter. MoneyGram posted a …

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Paya’s Boss Says the Acquisitive Processor Could Go Big on Future Deals

Paya Holdings Inc. has been among the payments industry’s more acquisitive processors, and on Friday morning its chief executive made plain the company isn’t ruling out bigger deals. “You can see our balance sheet, our leverage, and the powder is certainly there to do larger transactions,” chief executive Jeff Hack …

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It’s Too Soon To Know Impact of New Routing Proposal, Mastercard Says

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 …

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Daystar Aims for 1,000 ISOs And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/28/22

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, …

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Visa’s Kelly Touts Visa Direct to Attack P2P Fraud As the Network Reports a Strong Quarter

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 …

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Mobile Payment Use Increases and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/27/22

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 …

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Clover And Carat Help Propel Strong Results for Fiserv

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 …

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Albertsons Adds Online EBT Acceptance at More Than 2,200 Stores

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 …

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Visa Founder Dee Hock Forged a Network Giant Out of a Collection of Squabbling Banks

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 …

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Discover’s Payment Volume Rises 10%, but Pulse Treads Water

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. …

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