Transaction Processing

Evidence emerged Tuesday that Covid-19 fears are far from suppressing investor interest in payments as two U.S. and two European companies announced funding news. Atlanta-based Rev.io, an 18-year-old provider of billing platforms, said it has received a “significant growth equity investment” from Primus Capital. The company did not disclose the …

Debit card spending increased 9.4% for the week ending Aug. 30 from the week ending Sept. 1, 2019, for credit unions working with PSCU, a credit union service organization. For the same period, credit card spending was down 2.5%. Mobile wallet use with a debit card increased 68% and those with …

Nearly all persons use the cloud in their personal lives, from storing photos and accessing financial accounts to sharing documents and watching movies. But when it comes to the business world, the transition to cloud-based systems has been a slower migration, especially when it comes to business-to-business payments.  While check …

TransferMate Ltd., a provider of cross-border business-to-business payments technology, said it has won a payments license in Mexico.The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and CPA.com announced they are seeking applicants for the 2021 startup accelerator program, whose specialty is accounting, finance, and regulatory technology.Cryptocurrency provider Crypto.com launched a French version of its app …

Online sales in August were 34% higher this year than last, says Signifyd’s Pulse Report for E-Commerce, while small-business sales through August remained steady, finds the latest CardFlight Small Business Report. San Jose, Calif.-based Signifyd Inc., a fraud-prevention company focused on e-commerce, says overall online sales growth reflects the fact that …

Walmart Inc. has joined Paymentus Corp.‘s Instant Payment Network for bills paid in Walmart stores. Other users of the network are Amazon.com Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc.Modern Treasury, a startup payments-technology provider, said clients reconciled more than $100 million on its platform in August, with volume growing at a compound monthly …

The data networks that connect payments and other financial apps to users’ bank accounts are scrambling to standardize data access by moving to application programming interfaces and away from an older, cruder form of access known in the business as “screen scraping.” The effort comes as financial apps gain popularity …

Passport Labs Inc., a provider of transportation software, is teaming with Alphabet Inc.’s Google to allow consumers in Austin, Texas, to pay for parking through Google Maps using Google Pay at on-street and municipally controlled parking spaces. Drivers using Google Maps on their iPhone or Android phone to navigate to …

Count transactional credit at the point of sale among the payment technologies winning more of the spotlight as consumers tentatively venture out and businesses reopen in the midst of Covid-19’s impact. Mastercard Inc. on Wednesday announced new integrations with the card-issuing processor TSYS and with technology providers that will let …

CardFlight Inc. released its Small Business Report for Sept. 2 that shows contactless payments made at more than 65,000 small businesses for the week of Aug. 24-30 were up 140.3% from the base week of March 2 to 8. The report also predicts that there may be up to 50% fewer …