Point-of-sale and payments software provider Sound Payments said it completed an integration with two Equinox Payments POS terminals in Sound’s Quantum Cloud platform. Blaze Solutions Inc., a provider of technology for cannabis sellers, has released new point-of-sale technology for that market, featuring a Web-based POS system and upgraded user interface. A startup …
Read More »73% of Hourly Employers Intend To Offer Same-Day Wage Payments
Same-day pay for hourly workers is not only top-of-mind for employees, but many employers—73% in a new Onbe survey—think so, too, enough for many to begin planning for it. Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based corporate payouts platform Onbe says that is one finding from its 2024 Same Day Pay Survey. Released Monday, …
Read More »Why Dynamic Routing Has Become Essential for Online Retailing
Payment processing is vital to online retailers’ operations. A quick and easy checkout experience can be the difference between a completed sale and an abandoned shopping cart. That’s why, with its ability to optimize transaction paths in real time and provide a multitude of benefits, dynamic payment orchestration is critical …
Read More »i2C’s Corporate Card Plans and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/22/24
U.S.-based digital banking and payments platform i2c Inc. said it will work with Beyon Money Business, a banking-technology provider, to launch a corporate expense card program for small and mid-size companies, first in Bahrain and later more widely. Ackroo Inc., a point-of-sale technology provider and gift card platform, announced revenue for the …
Read More »A Year on, FedNow Makes Gains Amid Rising Use And Awareness of Faster Payments
July 20 marks the one-year anniversary of the debut of FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s real-time payment service. It also marks the anniversary of the payments industry letting its breath out in anticipation of the launch. Since then, both FedNow and its fellow faster payments providers have all benefited from the …
Read More »AmEx Outlines an Aggressive Plan for Expansion in Marketing
At more than $16 billion, revenue for American Express Co. hit an all-time high in the company’s June quarter, and now the travel-and-entertainment card giant is looking to ramp up marketing—radically. The company’s top brass said early Friday AmEx will pour $6 billion this year into selling consumers and businesses …
Read More »Aurus To Integrate Paze’s Checkout Tech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/19/24
Payment-processing software provider Aurus Inc. said it will work with Early Warning Services LLC to integrate EWS’s Paze online checkout technology, with Aurus user Wakefern Food Corp. having already adopted Paze. Cash App will leave the United Kingdom market, having launched there in 2018, it announced in a Web post. The service will shut down …
Read More »Discover Posts a Strong Quarter As Executives Stay Mostly Mum About Performance
For the second consecutive quarterly earnings call, executives at Discover Financial Services had little to say about the company’s financial performance, plans going forward, or anything else. With a proposed $35.3-billion merger with Capital One Financial Corp. hanging over them, Discover executives again took no questions, and equity analysts were …
Read More »Faster Payments Leap Ahead As Nacha Sees a 47% Jump in Same-Day ACH Volumes
Since the 2016 launch of same-day automated clearing house payments, the payment type has done nothing but grow. The 2024 second quarter is no exception, with the latest figures showing 292.3 million transactions, a 46.6% increase from 199.4 million in 2023’s second quarter, according to Nacha, which administers the ACH …
Read More »Cash App a Google Play Payment Now and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/18/24
Block Inc.’s Cash App announced it will be a payments option on Google Play, an Android-based e-commerce store offering apps and other content and accessed by more than 2.5 billion users monthly. Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. said borrowers will be able to pay mortgage servicers with debit cards through an integration by Repay …
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