Electronic Bill Payment

Prepaid card platform Blackhawk Network said it is working with Visa Inc. to convert its Visa-branded cards from plastic to paper-based materials. Payments provider Central Payments released PayCP, its payout platform that initially includes a virtual Discover prepaid card, a physical Discover prepaid card, push to debit cards via Mastercard Send, and ACH bank …

OSHA Outreach Courses, which provides workplace training services to employers and employees, said it has added a buy now, pay later option to pay for its instructional offers. Shift4 Payments Inc. has been named the official payment processor for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association. Shopmium, a cash-back shopping …

PayNearMe Inc. has added discount-retailer Dollar General and its 19,000 stores to its merchant network. The deal will enable Dollar General customers to pay bills using digitized cash at the checkout counter. The addition of Dollar General, which operates stores in 47 states, brings PayNearMe’s merchant network to more than …

The Waffle House restaurant system has adopted chainwide contactless payment capability, including mobile-wallet acceptance, through the Oracle Payment Cloud service. A startup called iWallet said it will adopt FedNow for mobile check deposits. The Federal Reserve launched the FedNow real-time payments service last month. MarginEdge, a bill-payments provider, launched a mobile bill-payment app for restaurant operators …

BitPay Inc. expanded the payment capabilities of its cryptocurrency wallet Tuesday with inclusion of bill payment. BitPay users can now pay bills with digital currency at more than 5,000 billers, the Atlanta-based company says. To enable bill payment, BitPay has partnered with Method Financial, an Austin, Texas-based provider of embedded …

Bluevine Inc., a provider of business-banking technology, has launched an accounts-payable solution for small and mid-size businesses. The application enables SMBs to manage bill payments from their Bluevine Business Checking account. SMBs can upload bills and invoices to a dashboard for viewing and to schedule payments. Supported payment options include …

Two payments companies are tapping into consumers’ affinity for texting—more than 6 billion SMS text messages are sent daily, according to The Small Business Blog—with a bill-pay service and a program for merchants. First, Detroit-based Diversified Data Processing & Consulting Inc., known as DivDat, added a text-to-pay  feature to its …

Payments provider Nuvei Corp. and open-banking specialist Plaid Inc. expanded their relationship to include new services, including bank-based payments for recurring payments and payouts, and new vertical markets, including utilities and business-to-business transfers. Synchrony said its Synchrony Pay Later service will be the exclusive buy now, pay later option at the At Home …

Real-time payments platform provider Pidgin Inc. has published an eBook detailing key steps financial institutions should be taking to prepare for real time payments. The eBook, published just ahead of the debut of Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments network this month, details how financial institutions can use real-time payments to …

FIS Inc. is the latest processor to be certified for the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments network, which is scheduled to launch later this month. FIS, which announced yesterday it is selling a sell a 55% interest in its merchant-processing business, joins a growing list of certified FedNow participants, including  ACI …