GoDaddy Inc. said its newly formed GoDaddy Payments unit has sold more than 1,000 point-of-sale devices and taken in “tens of thousands” of applications for the service from customers of the firm’s Web services. GoDaddy in September released a countertop payment terminal and mobile card reader, following the launch of GoDaddy Payments in June. …
Read More »Fintech Fyncr Looks to Disrupt Bill Payment With an App That Aggregates Credit Card Bills
In a bid to make it easier for consumers to pay myriad credit card bills each month, a startup called Fyncr Inc. on Thursday launched a bill-payment app that allows users to aggregate and pay their credit card bills in one application. With the Fyncr app, credit card holders can …
Read More »Retail Sales up 7.2% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/10/22
U.S. retail sales in January, excluding automobile-related spending, grew 7.2% year-over-year, with online sales increasing 10.4%, according to the Mastercard SpendingPulse report. Sales were propelled by such factors as accumulated savings and wage growth, the report says.Payments-processing giant Global Payments Inc. reported revenue of $2.19 billion on a GAAP basis for the fourth quarter, …
Read More »Bill.com’s Volume Jumps 62% and other Digital Transactions news briefs from 2/4/22
Payments technology provider Bill.com processed $56.4 billion in volume in the Dec. 31 quarter, up 62% year-over-year, with 9.8 million transactions on its platform, a 35% increase. It also processed 5.3 million Divvy card transactions worth $1.9 billion.Abaca, a fintech specializing in cannabis payments, said it has processed $2 billion in transactions …
Read More »Faster Payments And B2B Propel a Big Year for the ACH As Dollar Volume Tops $72 Trillion
The pandemic has “fast-tracked” adoption of the automated clearing house network for business-to-business payments, while transactions cleared and settled through the network on the same day they’re initiated are booming, according to full-year 2021 numbers released Thursday by Nacha, the governing body for the nationwide network. The annual results complement …
Read More »Small Businesses Mostly Pleased With Their Acquirers and other Digital Transactions news briefs from 2/3/2022
Small-business satisfaction with merchant processors stands at 859 on a scale of 1,000, up 23 points from 2021, according to the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Merchant Services Satisfaction Study. Banks lead the way in the survey, with Bank of America and Chase ranking first and second, followed by Square.Payments provider Payliance announced it …
Read More »U.S. Bank’s Real-Time Bill Payment for Consumers Coming and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/7/22
U.S. Bank said it will launch in the first quarter a real-time payments component to its bill service. It will use the Request for Payment tool that is part of The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s Real Time Payments service. The same service launched for U.S. Bank business customers in November.Cloud-software …
Read More »How the ACH May Have Been the Winner of the Pandemic Payments Sweepstakes
The share of payments claimed by the automated clearing house rose faster in 2020 than the share for cards, while checks dropped markedly. All the while, the share of payments claimed by cards, which had been steadily on the rise for years, flattened out. And while contactless transactions did rise …
Read More »16% Have Made a Crypto Payment and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/15/21
New research from Fiserv Inc. found that 16% of U.S. consumers have used cryptocurrency at least once to pay for goods and services. The survey of 2,200 U.S. adults also revealed that 25% of crypto users cited lack of merchant acceptance as the primary limitation to increasing the use of crypto as …
Read More »Tassat Scores Western Alliance Bank for Its Bank-Based Blockchain-Payment Technology
Stablecoins have come in for government scrutiny in recent weeks, but use of this blockchain-based technology to enable immediate business-to-business payments between bank clients is moving forward nonetheless. Late Thursday, Tassat Group Inc. announced Phoenix-based Western Alliance Bank will use the company’s TassatPay technology to allow business clients to pay …
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