High usage rates and increasing adoption by small businesses are the primary factors that have led Interac, Canada’s national debit and account-to-account payment network, to hit a record 1 billion transactions for the 12-month period ended April 30, a 16% increase from the same period a year earlier. A recent …

While consumers’ use of digital channels to pay bills has risen during the Covid-19 pandemic, one area of bill payment that has lagged in the transition to digital payments is billers that accept cash payments, such as utilities. On Thursday, payment-technology provider InComm Payments and bill-payment platform doxo Inc. announced they …

Paymentus Holdings Inc., a provider of cloud-based bill-payment technology, announced Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Payveris LLC, a digital money-movement platform, in a deal valued at $152.2 million. Paymentus will pay 56% of the purchase price in cash and the remainder in Paymentus Class A common stock. The acquisition …