Open-banking platform Plaid is collaborating with digital-wallet provider Ansa to offer a pay-by-bank capability to restaurants and other merchants, with wallet transactions handled via the automated clearing house. Payments-technology platform Modern Treasury launched widened support for connectivity to FedNow and The Clearing House’s RTP network for real-time payments, as well as other moves to …
Read More »How BP Hopes to Boost User Touch Points With Its New Loyalty App
Oil and gas giant BP plc early Monday launched a loyalty app called earnify, which enables BP customers to earn rewards points for fuel and in-store purchases at BP and Amoco locations. App users earn 1 point per $1 spent on fuel and 2 points per $1 spent on other …
Read More »The Plot Thickens Over the Legal Challenge To Illinois’s Interchange Law
The battle over the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act has taken a huge new turn. Early Thursday, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office filed a motion with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois’s Eastern Division challenging an Amicus brief from the Office of the Comptroller of …
Read More »How Visa And Swift Are Plunging Deeper Into the World of Digital Currencies
Payments companies may not yet be ready to embrace fully the world of blockchains, but some major payments networks are taking steps to deepen their experience in the world of digital currencies. Witness Visa Inc., which early Thursday said it will help banks issue tokens they create on a blockchain. …
Read More »Priority’s Bill Pay Change and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/3/24
The Priority Commerce unit of Priority Technology Holdings Inc. has replaced the subscription billing model for Plastiq, its bill pay service, with a transaction fee per use. It also made all formerly premium subscription tools available to all users. The Small Business Index from the processor Fiserv Inc. indicates small-business sales and total …
Read More »Strava Teams With Cash App and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/27/24
Strava, an online community for athletes, said it is working with Block Inc.’s Cash App unit to launch this year’s HBCU Homecoming Tour, which features running events at U.S. universities. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reportedly seeking comment on Apple Inc.’s practices with respect to contactless payments as the regulator works on …
Read More »Nuvei’s New Services and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/25/24
Payments processor Nuvei Corp. launched a number of new services, including decoupled pay-ins and payouts, and split payments. Embedded-finance fintech Sunbit announced an integration with payments-technology platform Stripe. The move will bring Sunbit’s services to a wider array of in-person service businesses, the company says. Business-automation provider BlueBean Technologies Inc. said it has completed an integration …
Read More »Payments Rank High on Community Banks’ To-Do Lists
Against a backdrop of continuing industry consolidation, community banks see digital payments as a key competitive weapon, according to newly released survey data from Bank of New York Mellon Corp. “Nearly 30% of those polled indicated that launching new technology services focused on efficiency and security, such as instant payments, …
Read More »EWA Platform DailyPay Adds a Savings Feature for Its Visa Prepaid Card
DailyPay Inc., a provider of technology for the fast-growing earned-wage access market, said early Thursday it will add a savings feature to its new DailyPay Visa prepaid card. The goal is to let users put aside earnings as they receive them, the New York City-based company says. The company says …
Read More »Alchemy Pay Adds BNN Chain Support and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/13/24
Cryptocurrency gateway Alchemy Pay said it now supports the BNB Chain blockchain ecosystem for developers working in the Web3 arena. Web3 is a vision of a blockchain-based web that includes cryptocurrencies, nonfungible tokens, and related entities. Co-branded credit card platform Cardless Inc. has appointed Joe Wold head of partnerships and Ailien Phan chief compliance …
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