Marketing

Trustly, an open-banking specialist, will work with payments specialist Spreedly to offer pay-by-bank services to merchants. ACI Worldwide Inc. will work with Banfico, a provider of technology for open banking and regulatory compliance, to help banks and payment service providers in Europe comply with confirmation of payee and verification of payee …

The Clearing House Payments Co.’s Real Time Payments Network said it passed 1 billion cumulative payments on Friday. The network, operated by TCH since 2017, also set single-day records Friday for number of payments, at 1,592,419, and value, at $1.44 billion. New York City-based TCH is owned by 20 large commercial banks. President Donald …

Discover Financial Services reported payments volume of $102 billion for the fourth quarter of 2024, up 4% year-over-year, including a 7% rise for the Pulse electronic funds transfer network and a 9% increase for Diners Club. Overall, the company reported a 14% increase in revenue net of interest expense, to $4.76 …

Payments provider Global Electronic Technology Inc., known as Gettrx, launched a white- label platform for agents, independent sales organizations, and independent software vendors that could help them compete against larger payment processors. The platform, called Gettrx One, enables agents, ISOs, and ISVs to market the service under their brand at …

Cardworks Inc. and its banking unit, Merrick Bank, have agreed to acquire Ally Financial Inc.’s credit card portfolio. The business includes $2.3 billion in receivables and serves 1.3 million active cardholders. Terms were not announced. The card-issuing platform Marqeta Inc. is supporting efforts by Trading 212, a developer of financial apps, to launch …

Agilysys Inc., a provider of hospitality solutions, is implementing 13 integrated software solutions at Kiva Dunes, a golf resort located in Gulf Shores, Ala., intended to optimize per guest revenue, automate administrative tasks, and improve the guest experience. Agilysys’ applications, which includes point-of-sale software, will eliminate repetitive administrative tasks across …

Point-of-sale terminal maker Sunmi launched several POS devices, including the Flex series, which uses the Android operating system. Bigg Digital Assets Inc., owner of Netcoins, Blockchain Intelligence Group, and TerraZero, said Netcoins Canada is launching eight crypto coins that begin trading Jan. 21.

The U.S Faster Payments Council has released fresh guidelines to help financial institutions add send capabilities to their instant-payments functions, a component just as critical as the ability to receive fast transfers. Among the pieces of the “Guideline.02: Operational Considerations for Instant Payments Send-Side Primer” are items explaining the instant-payment …

J.P. Morgan Payments, the payments arm of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co., is blazing its own path with two new payment terminals, both proprietary to the payment service. Announced Monday, the J.P. Morgan Paypad and Pinpad integrate in-store biometric authentication with payment acceptance. The point-of-sale devices are part of …

Consumers spent a record $241.4 billion online from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2024, an 8.7% increase from the same period a year earlier, Adobe Analytics reports. During this period, single-day online sales totaled more than $4 billion on 15 days, up from 11 days in 2023. Smart phones accounted …