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PayPal Holdings Inc. reported encouraging growth early Tuesday but left some analysts questioning how long that expansion can continue as the company concentrates on its branded growth initiatives. “Branded checkout is our number-one priority,” chief executive Alex Chriss told equity analysts on a call to discuss the company’s fourth-quarter earnings. “We’re …

Leveraging tie-ins with sister companies to facilitate payments and converting fiat currency to cryptocurrency are some of the possibilities that lay ahead for XMoney, the digital wallet from social-media platform X, in the wake of its partnership with Visa Inc. Enabling Tesla charging stations to accept the wallet is an …

Payment processor Moov Financial Inc. will process payments for a particularly high-profile enterprise, the Truth Social platform and Truth+ video streaming service, both owned by President Trump’s Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. Announced Monday, the deal includes credit card, debit card, and ACH acceptance. Moov says the deal will …

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 …

Continuing its focus on developing consumer payments, tapping new business flows, and providing value-added services, Visa Inc. late Thursday posted a strong start to its 2025 fiscal year. Speaking to equity analysts, Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney highlighted Visa’s recent deal with X, formerly Twitter, to power the social-media platform’s …

In reconnecting with the payments industry after my Congressional run, one topic has come up in conversation more than any other: interchange regulations. Specifically, S.1838, the Credit Card Competition Act of 2023 (CCCA), which takes a market-driven approach to driving down interchange fees.  By enabling two credit card networks on …

Bluefin said it will offer point-to-point encryption capability for the event-management platforms Event Guru and Registration Guru. AstroPay, a Brazil-based cross-border payments fintech, said it has been granted a payment-institution license by the Central Bank of Brazil. Magwitch, a lending-as-a-service platform, has integrated real-time point-of-sale lending technology from U.S. Bank Avvance. …

Despite many financial institutions lagging behind when it comes to the adoption of full send-and-receive capabilities for real-time payments, that trend is expected to reverse itself starting in 2025, says a report from Q2 Holdings Inc., a provider of digital-banking solutions. As more financial institutions add full send/receive capabilities for …

The pending $35.3-billion merger of Capital One and Discover has concentrated minds in the payments industry for nearly a year, but perhaps nowhere so much as at Mastercard Inc. That became apparent early Thursday as equity analysts quizzed the card network’s top brass about the combination’s potential impact on Mastercard, …

Same-day ACH payment volume topped 1.2 billion payments in 2024, said Nacha, the automated clearing house rule maker, and was valued at $3.2 trillion. Nacha said same-day ACH volume increased 45.3% from 2023 to 2024. Overall, ACH Network payment volume rose 6.7% from 2023 to 2024, to 33.6 billion payments in …