Digital payments platform provider Buy It Mobility Networks Inc. is betting its new BuyPass application will further reduce the complexities around connecting to its platform for merchants that want to offer branded payment options that debit a consumer’s bank account. Launched Wednesday, the application drops a URL into a merchant’s …
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BIM Launches BuyPass ACH Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/16/22
Payments-technology firm Buy It Mobility launched BuyPass, a platform aimed at allowing merchants to more quickly launch automated clearing house and merchant-branded payments programs. BIM is working with network capabilities and virtual card technology from Discover Network to reduce the time and cost for merchant integration.Transaction-security firm Forter launched Smart Payments, a technology that uses the …
Read More »Top Tips for Preventing ACH Credit Fraud
It’s become more common and harder to detect. Here are some measures that can help cut it down to size. Forced to work from home during Covid-19, accounts-payable departments have accelerated plans to move away from paper checks and pay more of their suppliers through the automated clearing house. That, …
Read More »Unit’s Application Development Environment Looks to Save Fintechs Time With New Apps
Looking to help fintechs speed development of new banking applications, Unit, a banking-as-a-service platform, announced Thursday a pilot production environment that allows fintechs to instantly build and validate applications using real funds. The new product is expected to enable fintechs to build and test live bank accounts and issue virtual …
Read More »Visa Acceptance Cloud Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/13/22
Visa Inc. announced a new payment platform, Visa Acceptance Cloud, which will let acquirers, payment service providers, point-of-sale system makers, and Internet of Things developers, to move the payment processing software from the hardware device to the computing cloud. Tests of the new platform are happening in North America, South America, …
Read More »Why Integrated Payables are the Future of B2B Payments
The “digital first” world has arrived—and there’s no turning back. While B2B payments have lagged behind consumer payments in digital adoption, that’s changing quickly. Goldman Sachs Research has predicted that B2B payments are on the verge of a technological breakthrough, leading to a $1.5 trillion revenue-saving opportunity by 2028. One …
Read More »U.S. Senators Press CFPB on BNPL Oversight and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/16/21
Six U.S. Senators sent a letter to Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, asking the agency to initiate a review of buy now, pay later products with a view toward introducing consumer protections. All six Senators are Democratic members of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.Online gaming operator PointsBet has …
Read More »Eye on BNPL: Klarna And Marqeta Expand in Europe, And Afterpay Brings BNPL To Belk
Klarna AB has expanded its relationship in Europe with virtual card issuing platform Marqeta to 13 new markets. Working with Marqeta, Klarna will offer one-time virtual cards to consumers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. The deal is the …
Read More »Remember the Pays?
The hype around Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Google Pay has quieted considerably. But that doesn’t mean the three big wallets are sitting still. When the so-called Pay wallets—Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Google Pay—launched in 2014, 2015 and 2018, respectively, they did so to great fanfare. At the time, …
Read More »Fiserv’s New Platform-as-a-Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/26/21
Independent software vendors can integrate technology directly into Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale terminals under Fiserv’s new platform-as-a-service program, the company announced.Processor Usio Inc. signed an agreement with independent software vendor BoosterHub LLC that will integrate Usio’s payment services into BoosterHub’s cloud-based software for thousands of school booster clubs.Payment gateway Cardknox Inc. said its processing capabilities can …
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