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 »Paysafe’s Latest GIG of Holiday Gift Budgets and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/7/24
Paysafe Ltd. will process transactions for clients of Gaming Innovation Group in North America, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Latin America that have adopted Gaming Innovations’ CoreX player-account management system. Silverblaze, a developer of customer-engagement software for utility companies, will adopt billing and payment technology from Kubra and has joined …
Read More »Illinois’s Interchange Lawsuit Wins National Prominence As More Retail Organizations Voice Support
The national legal battle over an Illinois interchange law continues to broaden in scope. Several national organizations representing merchants are expected to file amicus briefs with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Friday in support of the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The briefs are …
Read More »Research Pins Down How Soon Real Time Payments Will be Routine
With the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service having debuted in July last year and The Clearing House Payments Co.’s RTP network in operation since 2017, just how soon can the U.S. payments industry expect widespread, routine exchange of real-time transactions? Answers to that question are beginning to emerge. According to a …
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 »The Cleveland Browns Team Up With Aramark; ParTech Rolls Out a New Platform For Restaurants
The Cleveland Browns of the National Football League are expanding their grab-and-go technology to food-and-beverage concessions throughout Huntington Bank Field, the team’s home stadium. The new service, called Express Access, will be available at 12 locations within the stadium, enabling consumers to place orders across the entire facility. Since 2023, …
Read More »Eye on E-Commerce: Paze at 125 Million Cards; Klarna Becomes an Apple Reseller
Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, says more than 125 million credit and debit cards are now available to use with the e-commerce checkout tool as the service taps a new general manager. Also, buy now, pay later specialist Klarna AB has become an Apple Inc. …
Read More »Mastercard Agrees to Acquire Minna And Partners With Amazon Payments Services
Mastercard Inc. announced early Tuesday it is acquiring Minna Technologies, a provider of subscription-management applications. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will enable consumers to more easily manage, renew, and cancel their subscriptions by providing them a single view of all their subscriptions within their banking apps …
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