Digital Transactions Authoritative, insightful and timely information for payments professionals
Real-time payment flows are coming to processor settlements with merchants as Visa Inc. enlarges the market for its Visa Direct push-payment service. The latest development emerged this week with EVO Payments Inc.’s launch of EVO Direct Deposit, a service that relies on Visa Direct to credit U.S. merchant accounts. The …
September, 2020
-
10 September
Why Visa And PayPal Are Bringing Real-Time Expediency to Cross-Border Payments
PayPal Holdings Inc. and Visa Inc. are adding cross-border payments to an agreement to route payments made through PayPal’s Instant Transfer Service through the Visa Direct platform. The expanded agreement will allow consumers and small businesses to send or receive money to or from a Visa card account in real-time …
-
1 September
Beyond Contactless: Giant Eagle Recruits Grabango for Checkout-Free Stores
Cashierless technology is spreading as stores hunt for ways to automate service and payments while keeping operating costs in check. The latest example is supermarket chain Giant Eagle Inc., which has teamed up with Grabango Co., a Berkeley, Calif.-based provider of checkout-free technology, to introduce cashierless technology to its GetGo …
August, 2020
-
18 August
How Map App Waze Is Forging a Link Between Mobile Payments And Loyalty at the Pump
Now that Google’s Waze app has embedded a payment option into its software, the integration of navigation apps and payments and loyalty at the pump is under way, experts tell Digital Transactions News. Last week, Waze announced it has integrated an option that consumers can use to pay at the …
-
6 August
As It Recovers From Covid-19 Shock, Shift4 Looks to Grow Its End-to-End Processing Business
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a fearful toll on payments processing, and on Thursday, in its first earnings call as a publicly held company, Shift4 Payments Inc. proved it’s no exception. Stay-at-home orders and business shutdowns, with tentative reopenings, clipped the company’s full-service, lucrative end-to-end payment volume in the June quarter …
July, 2020
-
31 July
Shift4 Emerges From Its IPO With Less Debt and More Cash
Shift4 Payments Inc. is scheduled to have its first quarterly earnings call as a publicly held company on Thursday. Ahead of that call, company founder and chief executive Jared Isaacman is expressing satisfaction with the merchant acquirer’s June 4 initial public offering. The oversubscribed IPO was priced at $23 per share, …
-
29 July
Businesses Adopt Zelle As the Network’s Numbers Climb in the Face of the Pandemic
Peer-to-peer payments networks like Zelle were introduced as a means for consumers to pay each other, but business acceptance now appears to be ramping up along with consumer usage in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Seven major financial institutions are now enabling property owners, home-services companies, and other small …
June, 2020
-
30 June
European Commission Report Details Wealth Redistribution From Interchange Regulation
A new European Commission report shows how interchange regulation has lowered merchants’ payment card acceptance costs and taken more than $3 billion a year from card issuers’ top lines. The EC, the executive arm of the Brussels-based European Union, implemented its so-called Interchange Fee Regulation in 2015 and 2016. The …
-
18 June
Private-Label Debit Provider ZipLine Sold to PDI
ZipLine, the provider of private-label debit payment services for convenience stores like Cumberland Farms, has been acquired by Professional Datasolutions Inc., a c-store software developer and services company. Announced Thursday, the deal will enable Alpharetta, Ga.-based PDI to bundle ZipLine’s private-label debit and mobile-payment app with its Marketing Cloud Platform. …
-
15 June
It’s Goodbye Cards, Hello Electric Cars for Publicly Traded Processor Net Element
Merchant processor Net Element Inc. has a letter of intent to merge with Mullen Technologies Inc., a privately held startup that plans to sell Chinese-made electric sports cars in the U.S. The pending deal, announced Monday, requires Net Element to divest its payment-processing business. The so-called “reverse triangular merger” is …
