The regulated online sports-betting and casino market in the United States has exploded in recent years following the Supreme Court’s repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) back in 2018. This repeal put the power to regulate single-event sports betting in state hands, with many subsequently passing …

Regpack, a payment management platform, said NYLA Talent, a network of more than 100 entertainment industry professionals and organizations, adopted its service to automate and digitize its payment processes.Early Warning Services LLC has opened a new headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz. Owned by seven of the nation’s biggest banks, Early Warning is …

MX Technologies Inc. has expanded its reach into the emerging field of open banking through partnerships with Sionic Mobile Corp., a provider of consumer-to-business payments technology, and FuturePay Inc., a provider of digital revolving credit solutions for e-commerce merchants and their customers. Sionic is embedding MX’s instant account-verification and account-aggregation …

Consumers’ loss of funds to fraud and other deceptive activity on peer-to-peer payment networks has drawn the attention of U.S. Senators, who are demanding answers on the matter from the big banks that own the Zelle P2P network. The senators’ actions come as P2P activity has boomed in response to …

Payments professionals Joseph Daly and Eric Kellogg announced they formed Argyle Payments LLC, an independent sales organization that will focus on small and midsize merchants in high-margin specialty markets.Buy now, pay later provider Klarna AB closed on an $800-million funding round aimed at bolstering its stance in the U.S. market. The round values the …

To speed adoption of open banking in Canada at a time when Canadians are craving digital services, RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) late Tuesday announced partnerships with open-banking platform provider Plaid Inc. and data-aggregation and analytics provider Yodlee Inc., a unit of Envestnet Inc. The deals will enable RBC customers …

Payments provider Checkout.com has agreed to acquire ubble, a provider of identity-verification technology, in a transaction set to close later this year. Terms were not disclosed.The March 18 increase in the same-day limit to $1 million helped lift same-day ACH volume in the first quarter to $290.3 billion, up 53.3% year-over-year, Nacha said. Transactions …

While the payments industry reckons with the arrival of real-time settlement capability, an appetite among financial institutions for faster payments in general has clearly emerged. Dollar volume on the automated clearing house network for transactions settled on the same day grew 53% in March compared to February, following the introduction …

As the mass exodus of Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country continues, charitable organizations and businesses are finding new ways to provide support. Cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain-infrastructure provider Binance joined those efforts Tuesday, announcing the Binance Refugee Crypto Card. The Visa-branded debit card will allow displaced Ukrainians to make or …

Creative, norm-breaking advances in payments can happen in the strangest places. Just ask BIM Networks, Discover—and the ACH. Another $13 billion poured into the top 250 fintech startups last year as investors doubled down on the business potential of disrupting staid financial-services providers and the moribund card-payments infrastructure. But where’s …