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October, 2022

• 28 October

  Meta Pay Widens Its Merchant Reach Through a Deal With Chase Payments

  

  Meta Pay, the mobile wallet from Meta Platforms Inc., has reached an agreement with JP Morgan Chase Payments to make the payment option available to Chase merchants on their e-commerce site or mobile app. The announcement was made earlier in the week on Twitter by Stephane Kasriel. the head of …
• 27 October

  Open Banking Will Soon Have a New Overseer As the CFPB Looks to Regulate Data Sharing

  

  With data sharing via open-banking arrangements becoming increasingly vital in the payments business, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday released an outline of a “data-rights rule” it is preparing that would govern how consumers’ financial information is shared among players such as banks and payments companies. The proposed rule …

September, 2022

• 28 September

  Agility with e-commerce: Enabling e-commerce payments is no longer negotiable

  

  By Dustin Siner, Chief Revenue Officer, Agile Financial Systems The rise of e-commerce and social commerce is unmistakable. What was once viewed as an alternative shopping method for a select few is now the preferred shopping method for a significant portion of consumers. A report by Statista forecasts that by …
• 1 September

  PayNearMe Adds Kansas, Its 20th State for iGaming And Sports Betting

  

  PayNearMe Inc. has added one more state for its iGaming and sports-betting processing business. The latest expansion, to Kansas, brings to 20 the number of states in which the payments and electronic billing platform provider has iGaming operations. The expansion also comes just as the collegiate football and National Football …

July, 2022

• 29 July

  Dueling Trade Groups Seek to Sway the Payments Industry Over Durbin’s Credit Card Bill

  

  With the introduction in Congress on Thursday of a bill that attacks rising credit card acceptance costs, lobbyists for both sides of the issue lost no time firing broadsides, pro and con, over the matter. The legislation, co-sponsored by Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., seeks to ratchet down …

June, 2022

• 2 June

  Bank And Credit Card Apps Register More Usage But Less Consumer Satisfaction

  

  The financial stresses brought on by inflation and other after-effects of the pandemic are starting to damage consumer satisfaction with payments apps, according to the results of a series of J.D. Power surveys, results of which were released early Thursday. Indeed, consumer satisfaction seems to be dropping even as app …

April, 2022

• 27 April

  The Untapped Power Within Real-time Payment Analytics

  

  By Kevin Johnson, VP of Sales, Transact & Latin America Technology, innovation, and fintech continue to transform the payments industry. From cryptocurrency and digital wallets to buy-now-pay-later and real-time, innovation is touching nearly every facet of the industry. A system once based on barter-and-trade now offers consumers and businesses numerous …
• 27 April

  Agile Financial Systems Unveils Revolutionary, Innovative Product Suite

  

  APEX family of products designed to help businesses compete and grow in the marketplace   Southlake, Texas based Agile Financial Systems (AFS) is a high growth financial technology company founded in 2017. Backed by an executive team with over 100 years of combined industry experience, the organization’s mission is to …
• 26 April

  Five Signs It’s Time to Move on From Worldpay

  

  By Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled While the world of integrated payments has undergone a major shift thanks to payment facilitation, many software companies are still working with legacy processors, like Worldpay, that can only offer antiquated and manual processes. If your B2B software company is working with …
• 8 April

  With New Sheriffs in Town, Payment Players Can Expect Stiffer Scrutiny, a Lobbyist Warns 

  

  Payments companies have sensed increasing regulatory pressure since the Biden Administration’s inauguration last year, and now experts who follow developments in Washington, D.C., are confirming it. After a relatively “light touch” during the Trump Administration, “the [regulatory] pendulum has come back this way” toward a harder look at payments practices, …