Electronic Bill Payment

Euronet Worldwide Inc., a Kansas-based company that provides digital-payments services in Europe, reported second-quarter revenue of $714.7 million, up 35% year-over-year.Chargebee Inc., a subscription and recurring-billing platform, announced an update that includes automated usage-based billing, dedicated data centers, item-level discounts, and new checkout features.IR, whose technology enables merchants to analyze …

Discover Financial Services reports its payment services volume of $78.4 billion for the second quarter of 2021 increased 22% from $64.5 billion in the same period a year ago. Its Pulse network dollar volume of $62.9 billion increased 18% from $52.9 billion year-over-year. Discover card sale volume of $45.6 billion increased …

The hotly competitive peer-to-peer payments market got even more crowded Tuesday with the entry of Payveris LLC, a digital money-movement platform provider. The new service, which Cromwell, Conn.-based Payveris expects will compete with the P2P stalwarts Zelle, Venmo, and Cash App, will enable real-time P2P payments over the debit card …

The consumer-payments industry is thriving. Last year, consumers embraced more payment methods than ever, a behavior that companies like Stripe (now valued at $95 billion ahead of a highly anticipated Wall Street debut) are banking on in a post-Covid world.  In fact, a recent Deloitte report tells us that, in …

Waystar, a provider of payments software for the health-care industry, announced it will buy Patientco Holdings Inc., a payments provider in the same industry. Terms were not announced, though persons familiar with the matter valued Patientco at $450 million, according to Bloomberg.Payments provider Payroc WorldAccess LLC said it has acquired DCS Holdings Group …

With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating the adoption of digital payments, it was only a matter of time before payments providers began pushing the technology beyond mainstream merchants, such as retailers and restaurants, and down to professions with specialized needs, such as realtors, attorneys, and healthcare providers.     DepositLink Inc., a Boston-based …

As the gig economy grows, startups are emerging to meet an expanding market for payment. An especially ambitious example is Willa Inc., which on Wednesday announced an $18-million Series A funding round led by FinTech Collective and including sums from existing investors EQT Ventures and Entrée Capital. The Ventura, Calif.-based …

Fifteen months after suspending its popular Visitor Toll Pass program due to travel restrictions placed on tourists moving through Orlando International Airport during the Covid pandemic, the Central Florida Expressway Authority on Wednesday rebooted the program. The Visitor Toll Pass, which debuted in May 2019 and was suspended in March …

Consumers’ use of digital channels to pay bills continues to rise even as the Covid-19 pandemic begins to ease, according to a study by ACI Worldwide Inc. In looking at how consumers’ use of digital channels, such as Web sites and mobile apps, has grown during the first half of …

Global payment transaction volume authenticated with EMV 3-D Secure 2.0 increased 1,667% in the first quarter year-over-year, according to Outseer’s latest quarterly fraud and payments report. The same type of volume authenticated with the previous version of EMV 3-D Secure increased 59% for the same period. Outseer is an authentication services provider.Payments …