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MoneyGram International Inc. said its MoneyGram Online digital service had second quarter revenue of $53.3 million, up 13% from $47 million in the same quarter in 2021. Its overall revenue of $329.6 million in the quarter, was up slightly from $329.3 million revenue in the 2021 second quarter. MoneyGram posted a …

The U.S. automated clearing house network saw a double-digit increase year-over-year in transactions in the second quarter while dollar volume ballooned 94%, the network operator Nacha reported Tuesday morning. The volume of all transactions on the system, meanwhile, reached 7.5 billion, up from 7.3 billion in the first quarter. Helping …

With the introduction in Congress on Thursday of a bill that attacks rising credit card acceptance costs, lobbyists for both sides of the issue lost no time firing broadsides, pro and con, over the matter. The legislation, co-sponsored by Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., seeks to ratchet down …

Mastercard Inc. executives are paying close attention to a new proposal in the U.S. Congress that could alter merchant choice in routing credit card payments. Concurrently, its earnings are riding the crest of a wave that includes consumer spending and the resurgence in travel. A bipartisan bill sponsored by senators Richard …

With a pair of U.S. Senators preparing to introduce a bill that would allow merchants to process Visa and Mastercard credit card payments over other networks, payments experts reached by Digital Transactions News are sharply divided on the idea. The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, …

Waitr Holdings Inc., which is changing its name to ASAP, said it will be the exclusive mobile ordering platform for the New York Giants, New York Jets, and MetLife Stadium, the venue shared by both teams.The worldwide tokenization market is forecasted to grow from $2.6 billion in 2021 to $12.7 billion by …

Datacap Systems Inc. said it is working with gift card provider Card Market to enable Datacap partners to order custom gift cards for Datacap Gift, Datacap’s new omnichannel gift platform.E-commerce platform Promenade Group expanded its service to include Promenade for Butchers that includes a Web site, online ordering, delivery options, marketing, back-office management, …

Network volumes and interchange revenues posted hefty increases at American Express Co. in the second quarter as consumers and businesses spent more while a recovery continues from the Covid-19 pandemic that hit two years ago. AmEx reported Friday that its network volumes totaled $394.8 billion in the quarter ending June …

Payments provider Celero Commerce announced it is the preferred processor for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League.Datacap Systems Inc. and PAX Technology Inc. announced an integration partnership. Datatcap’s software is now certified on multiple PAX devices.Payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. extended an agreement with analytics firm IR for real-time transaction monitoring.Marriott International announced …

Dee Hock, who died Saturday at 93, may not have single-handedly founded the modern electronic payments industry, but he came closer than anyone else to claiming that mantle. He is widely credited as the force that harnessed a widely varied collection of banks to start the credit card system that …