Prepaid Cards

In a move aimed in part at accommodating digital-only financial institutions, Visa Inc. on Saturday opened its ReadyLink prepaid top-up network for the first time to debit cards. “The expansion makes Visa ReadyLink available to all consumer and business debit cards. The service is optional and issuers need to opt-in,” …

Payments provider Nuvei Corp. said it will offer its U.S. merchant clients access to Visa Direct, Visa Inc.’s real-time push-payment network, for near real-time payouts.Ecrid Inc., a startup credit bureau that includes a bill-payment capability, announced it has filed for an initial public offering expected to raise $20 million.Payments provider Usio Inc. said the …

A September survey of 850 information-technology professionals around the world by security-software provider Hornetsecurity Group found more than 9% saying their organization had paid a ransom to recover data after a ransomware attack. Some 15.2% said their organizations don’t perform regular data backups.Parkmobile LLC, whose mobile app enables reservations and payment for …

Payments observers are expecting a tougher regulatory approach from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with the confirmation on Thursday of Rohit Chopra as executive director of the 10-year old federal agency. “The agency will likely return to the days of director Cordray,” predicts one close observer who asked not to …

Discover Network said it will work with Phood Solutions Inc., a food-payment and delivery platform for college students, to provide a mobile app that allows students to load a meal plan along with plan dollars for use with DoorDash and other services. Payments will be backed by a Discover prepaid card …

Chevron Products Co. said it is working with mobile-payments technology provider P97 Networks Inc. to enhance the company’s mobile apps for both Chevron and Texaco customers.Mercator Advisory Group’s “18th Annual U.S. Closed-Loop Prepaid Cards Market Forecast 2020-2025” found that closed-loop prepaid card loads dropped 14% because of the pandemic, but are expected …

The First National Bank of Omaha launched a buy now, pay later service that enables merchants to offer installment payments to consumers. FNBO tapped EXL, an operations management and analytics company, and Skeps, a point-of-sale loan originations platform, to help develop the service. The BNPL service can be integrated into e-commerce Web …

Square Inc. launched its Early Access Program for beta testing in Spain. The program allows select businesses and freelancers to access Square technology. The move marks Square’s entry in the Spanish market.Sky Systemz, a business-to-business software company, launched Sky Paymentz, a service to enable businesses to accept payments in person, online, …

North American payments processors are focusing lately on bulking up resources in Latin America, largely via acquisition. The latest example is Montreal-based Nuvei Corp., which on Tuesday said it has acquired Paymentez LLC, a 10-year-old payments provider that enables more than 80 payment methods in Mexico as well as 10 …

PopID, a consumer authentication service, said its PopPay payment service is used more than more 100 restaurant and retail brands. Approximately 70,000 registered users have authenticated their faces more than 4 million times. PopID recently closed on a $10 million Series B funding round and intends to expand to college campuses across …