Shift4 Payments Inc. on Thursday reported record quarterly end-to-end payment volume and gross revenue as it notched what chief executive Jared Isaacman called a “strong first quarter.” Stronger performance in the company’s core hospitality market helped drive end-to-end volume to a record $8 billion, with most growth coming from new …
Read More »Square Online Courts Bars And Brewers With Delivery Via DoorDash
Square Inc. continues to build out delivery services for its Square Online platform with the addition of liquor delivery. Merchants using Square Online that sell liquor can offer customers the option to purchase alcohol from the store’s Web site and have the order fulfilled through Square’s delivery partner DoorDash Inc. …
Read More »Zelle Transactions up 61% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/5/21
The Zelle peer-to-peer payment network handled $106 billion in volume in the first quarter on 392 million transactions, up 74% and 61%, respectively, year over year. Zelle is owned and operated by Early Warning Services LLC.Jack Henry & Associates Inc., a provider of payments technology to financial institutions, said it has integrated Mastercard …
Read More »TCH’s Plan to Ease RTP Fees and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/4/21
The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC announced three processors—Fiserv Inc., FIS Inc., and Jack Henry & Associates—will offer its real-time payment service to minority-owned depository institutions. The processors and TCH will jointly cover the onboarding fees for these financial institutions connecting to TCH’s RTP network.Datacap Systems Inc. said it will offer the digital …
Read More »COMMENTARY: Why the PLC Is Bad News for Fair Competition in Payments
The chief executives of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover last month came together to start the Payments Leadership Council, a group that also includes the heads of FIS, Fiserv, and Global Payments. Thus, we now have witnessed the final step by adding the keystone to the pyramid of power …
Read More »How the Pieces of Mastercard’s ‘Multirail’ Strategy Are Starting to Fit Together
You wouldn’t always know it, listening to the top executives at Visa and Mastercard, but these two rival networks are still chiefly card networks. Thursday morning, Mastercard Inc. laid out for equity analysts an update on what it has called its “multirail strategy,” major moves into account-to-account money transfers, real-time payments, …
Read More »Square’s New ACH Feature for Invoices Aims at Larger Sellers
To help large businesses reduce payment transaction costs and provide another option for how they receive payments, Square Inc. on Wednesday announced it will accept automated clearing house payments on Square Invoices. The addition of ACH payments could also enable Square to attract large, complex businesses—such as wholesalers, home-repair specialists, …
Read More »FIS Unveils RealNet, a Network-of-Networks Approach to Real Time Payments
The real-time payments movement continues to build momentum in the United States with FIS Inc.’s announcement Wednesday of RealNet, a cloud-based, software-as-a-service platform that enables businesses, consumers, and governments to initiate account-to-account transactions. RealNet, which FIS describes as a network of networks, will leverage The Clearing House Payment Co. LLC’s …
Read More »SMBs Value Digital Payments More Than a Year Ago and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/29/21
A survey from the Electronic Transactions Association and The Strawhecker Group found that 43% of small and mid-size businesses view digital payments as more important to their operations now than before the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey of 528 SMBs also found that 34% said they are experiencing an increase in contactless payments.InComm …
Read More »Shopify’s Wallet Gets a Lift as its Shop App Climbs to 19 Million Active Users
Everyone has heard of Amazon, but there’s less talk about Canada’s Shopify Inc., even though the fast-growing, Ottawa-based commerce platform now ranks second to Amazon in share of retail e-commerce sales, with 8.6% versus 39% for the Seattle-based giant, according to eMarketer. On Wednesday, Shopify issued an update on just …
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