E-Commerce

Payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. said it is launching MX POS, a point-of-sale platform offering cloud accessibility with analytics and data reporting. Chargebacks911, a platform for chargeback management, advised merchants to streamline subscription-cancellation processes in response to a proposal from the Federal Trade Commission to require merchants to make it as easy to …

RevSpring Inc. said it is the payment partner to the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., a new program for U.S. pharmacies. Cheq Inc., a mobile-payments provider serving the hospitality industry, said its technology will fulfill food orders at The Bite of Seattle, a festival set for July 21-23 and expected …

As a new phase of real-time payments in the United States draws near, don’t expect payment cards to go away any time soon. That’s the consensus from several speakers at the Smarter Faster Payments 2023 conference sponsored by Nacha this week in Las Vegas. Each time a new payment rail …

Observers of the payments landscape who are wondering when the business will get its momentum back may have had their question answered early Thursday by the top executives of American Express Co. Travel and entertainment spending, a key category for AmEx historically and one that was hammered hard by the …

Discover Network reported $54.1 billion in Discover Card volume for the first quarter, up 9.5% over the same period last year. Discover’s Pulse debit network processed $65.3 billion in volume, a 9% increase year-over-year. Revenue net of interest expense rose 29% to $3.75 billion, but net income dropped 21% year-over-year owing …

If The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s experience with the formation and setup of its Real Time Payments network more than five years ago is any indication, the upcoming FedNow service may want to prepare for a marathon. That’s the advice from Keith Gray, TCH vice president of sales and …

Darwinium, a fraud-prevention platform serving payments providers and fintechs from global offices in London and Sydney, announced its expansion into the U.S. market, including relocation of its corporate headquarters to San Francisco. Some 65% of treasury officers reported their organizations were victimized by attempted or actual fraud last year, the …

Faster-payments networks are forming to take advantage of a perceived appetite among consumers and businesses to move money at a quicker pace, but one such service that has been available since 2016 is reporting booming jumps in volume. Nacha, the Herndon, Va.-based organization that manages the nation’s automated clearing house …

Fiserv Inc. launched a platform that can issue digital versions of a replacement debit card, enabling immediate use of a card that can be added to a digital wallet. Mobile-messaging provider Clickatell announced what it calls the world’s first chat-commerce platform as a service (CCPaaS). The platform allows customers to …

Early Warning Services LLC Monday morning issued a report from its chief executive reporting significant first-quarter growth for the company’s Zelle peer-to-peer payments network and underscoring efforts by EWS, owned by seven of the nation’s biggest banks, to combat fraud and scams. Though the report, signed by four-year CEO Al …