News

October, 2024

• 4 October

  Illinois’s Interchange Lawsuit Wins National Prominence As More Retail Organizations Voice Support

  

  The national legal battle over an Illinois interchange law continues to broaden in scope. Several national organizations representing merchants are expected to file amicus briefs with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Friday in support of the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The briefs are …
• 4 October

  Research Pins Down How Soon Real Time Payments Will be Routine

  

  With the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service having debuted in July last year and The Clearing House Payments Co.’s  RTP network in operation since 2017, just how soon can the U.S. payments industry expect widespread, routine exchange of real-time transactions? Answers to that question are beginning to emerge. According to a …
• 4 October

  Gift Cards To Comprise 48% of Holiday Gift Budgets and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/4/24

  

  A report from prepaid card platform Blackhawk Network indicates consumers will spend $760 on holiday-season gifting this year, flat with 2023, though they say they will spend 48% of their holiday budget through gift cards, up from 39% last year. The company surveyed 2,000 U.S. consumers in July. Pye, a hospitality point-of-sale …
• 3 October

  Optimizing payments and financial services to exceed consumer expectations and maximize revenue

  

  Steven Velasquez, Senior Vice President and Head of Partner Business Development – Elavon, Inc. As payments technology innovation continues to evolve exponentially, today’s consumers expect a seamless, connected, and personalized buying experience. Buyers don’t care about payments per se, but the overall shopping experience. ISOs and ISVs that understand this …
• 3 October

  The Plot Thickens Over the Legal Challenge To Illinois’s Interchange Law

  

  The battle over the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act has taken a huge new turn. Early Thursday, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office filed a motion with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois’s Eastern Division challenging an Amicus brief from the Office of the Comptroller of …
• 3 October

  How Visa And Swift Are Plunging Deeper Into the World of Digital Currencies

  

  Payments companies may not yet be ready to embrace fully the world of blockchains, but some major payments networks are taking steps to deepen their experience in the world of digital currencies. Witness Visa Inc., which early Thursday said it will help banks issue tokens they create on a blockchain. …
• 3 October

  Priority’s Bill Pay Change and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/3/24

  

  The Priority Commerce unit of Priority Technology Holdings Inc. has replaced the subscription billing model for Plastiq, its bill pay service, with a transaction fee per use. It also made all formerly premium subscription tools available to all users. The Small Business Index from the processor Fiserv Inc. indicates small-business sales and total …
• 2 October

  The Cleveland Browns Team Up With Aramark; ParTech Rolls Out a New Platform For Restaurants

  

  The Cleveland Browns of the National Football League are expanding their grab-and-go technology to food-and-beverage concessions throughout Huntington Bank Field, the team’s home stadium. The new service, called Express Access, will be available at 12 locations within the stadium, enabling consumers to place orders across the entire facility. Since 2023, …
• 2 October

  Eye on E-Commerce: Paze at 125 Million Cards; Klarna Becomes an Apple Reseller

  

  Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, says more than 125 million credit and debit cards are now available to use with the e-commerce checkout tool as the service taps a new general manager. Also, buy now, pay later specialist Klarna AB has become an Apple Inc. …
• 2 October

  CellPoint’s PayU GPO Alliance and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/2/24

  

  CellPoint Digital, a payments-orchestration platform, announced an alliance with PayU GPO, a platform for alternative payment methods operating in more than 50 markets globally. In related news, payments-orchestration platform Transcard said it now supports payments globally through multiple currencies in an effort to smooth payments for financial companies operating worldwide. Duck Creek …