Stripe Inc. announced late Wednesday it is partnering with Spade, a provider of real-time merchant intelligence for card issuers, to provide issuers on the Stripe platform with data to verify a merchant’s identity during the authorization process. Spade provides information such as merchant name, category, and geolocation within 50 milliseconds. …
Read More »Peer-to-Peer Platform Zelle Handled a Record $1 Trillion in Volume In 2024
Zelle, the peer-to-peer payments service from Early Warning Services LLC, announced early Wednesday that dollar volume sent over the network last year totaled a record $1 trillion, up 27% from 2023. Transactions for the year totaled 3.6 billion, a 25% year-over-year increase, while the number of consumer and business accounts …
Read More »One Inc’s Banner 2024 and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/12/25
One Inc, a payments platform for the insurance industry, reported it signed 87 new agreements in 2024, with revenue up 55% for the year. The company exited the year at an annual run rate of $100 billion in processing volume, it said. Corpay Inc. said its cross-border payments platform launched Multi-Currency …
Read More »Worldpay Is Doing Well, But It’s Not a ‘Growth Driver’ for FIS, Execs Say
Top executives at FIS Inc. early Tuesday reported accelerating revenue in 2024 and see that momentum carrying into the new year, but the energy appears to be coming from financial technologies apart from the big Worldpay merchant-processing platform. “Worldpay has not been a growth driver in 2024, and won’t be …
Read More »Square’s Funny Restaurant Pitch and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/10/25
Acquirer Square released a new video series called “Running a Restaurant Is No Joke” that uses humor to highlight how Square can help restaurant operators. Now live on Square’s Web site, the series also will appear in various media and social outlets. RedotPay, a digital-currency payments platform, said it is working with …
Read More »Paysafe’s Shares Climb As Wall Street Buzzes With Takeover Talk
Paysafe Ltd., one of the world’s largest payments processors, has developed a highly sophisticated stake in online gaming, but lately the odds may favor a change in ownership for the publicly held London-based company, according to industry speculation. News emerged late Thursday that the company’s current valuation–$1.4 billion, down from …
Read More »Judge Grants More Banks Relief from Illinois Interchange Law, But Stops Short of Going All the Way
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Kendell extended the injunction against Illinois’s pending interchange law late Thursday to include more financial institutions but stopped short of providing blanket relief from the law for all financial institutions and the card networks. Kendall, a judge in the Northern District of Illinois, ruled that …
Read More »Fiserv Gets Set for a New CEO As Bisignano Trumpets a Strong Quarter
President Donald Trump may have tapped Frank Bisignano to run the Social Security Administration, but for the time being he remains very much in charge of the big processor Fiserv Inc. Early on Wednesday, he reported a robust 2024 in which the company recorded 16% growth in organic revenue—growth apart …
Read More »Checkbook Adds Visa Direct and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/5/25
Payments platform Checkbook said its users can now deposit funds in real time through Visa Direct to fund bank accounts connected to more than 4 billion debit cards. Merchant’s Pact, a provider of payments services for banks, said an integration with Q2 Holdings Inc.’s digital-banking service will allow banks to offer an …
Read More »Visa Touts Its X Money Deal As It Celebrates Results for Tokens, Credentials, And ‘Tap’ Services
Continuing its focus on developing consumer payments, tapping new business flows, and providing value-added services, Visa Inc. late Thursday posted a strong start to its 2025 fiscal year. Speaking to equity analysts, Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney highlighted Visa’s recent deal with X, formerly Twitter, to power the social-media platform’s …
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