Mastercard Inc. said July retail sales increased 11.2% from July 2021. E-commerce sales were up 11.7% and in-store sales increased 11.1% for the same period.Payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. reported $340 million in revenue for its June quarter, up 13% year-over-year.In related news, ACI’s Speedpay will integrate with the Vindicia platform from technology firm Amdocs …
Read More »Splitit Expands BNPL To Rent Payments And Relocates Global Base To Atlanta
Splitit USA Inc. furthered the expansion of buy now, pay later loans beyond the point-of-sale Wednesday through its parentship with letus (formerly RentMoola), a Vancouver, B.C.-based fintech that provides rent advances, credit reporting, and other consumer-credit solutions. By partnering with Splitit, letus can offer tenants the option of spreading monthly …
Read More »‘We Are…Regaining Our Momentum,’ Says PayPal’s Boss As Payments Volumes Grow
After a few stumbles in recent months, PayPal Holdings Inc. returned to growth mode in its June quarter as the big payments provider refocused its energies on its basic businesses, including checkout, peer-to-peer payments, and the Braintree processing operation. “We are well under way toward regaining our momentum,” chief executive …
Read More »The Mobile Channel Is Driving Fraud Costs
The cost of fraud to U.S. merchants increased 4.2% in 2022, up from $3.60 to $3.75 for every dollar lost to fraud. That’s the latest from the 2022 edition of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions “True Cost of Fraud Study: Retail and Ecommerce” report released Tuesday. The metric had been $3.13 …
Read More »AmEx Launches SMB Global Pay Service And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/2/22
American Express Co. launched American Express Global Pay, a digital payment service to enable U.S. businesses to make domestic and international business-to-business payments. Eligible U.S. AmEx Small Business cardholders can fund payments from their business bank accounts to suppliers in more than 40 countries with a dozen currencies.RevoluGroup Canada Inc., a payments-technology provider, …
Read More »Blackhawk Teams Up With Aurus To Help Increase Digital Payments Access
Blackhawk Network Inc. is partnering with Aurus Inc., an omnichannel payments-platform provider, to increase consumer access to digital payments such as digital wallets and buy now, pay later loans. The deal is expected to provide merchants a single payments platform that supports myriad payment options, including general purpose and private-label …
Read More »PayGround Secures $5.5 Million in Funding And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/29/22
PayGround, a payments fintech specializing in health care, completed a $5.5-million funding round led by FCA Venture Partners and Lewis & Clark Ventures. The financing follows a $4-million seed round for PayGround last year.Chargebacks911 said its partnership with FIS Inc.’s Worldpay unit now includes Disputes Deflector, a set of chargeback and …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Experts Differ on the Consequences of Durbin’s Latest Effort to Control Merchants’ Card Costs
With a pair of U.S. Senators preparing to introduce a bill that would allow merchants to process Visa and Mastercard credit card payments over other networks, payments experts reached by Digital Transactions News are sharply divided on the idea. The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, …
Read More »MX Expands Its Open Banking Footprint Via Deals With Sionic And FuturePay
MX Technologies Inc. has expanded its reach into the emerging field of open banking through partnerships with Sionic Mobile Corp., a provider of consumer-to-business payments technology, and FuturePay Inc., a provider of digital revolving credit solutions for e-commerce merchants and their customers. Sionic is embedding MX’s instant account-verification and account-aggregation …
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