The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC early Tuesday issued a white paper alleging that federal regulators are effectively blocking national banks from issuing stablecoins. This is despite the agencies’ own conclusion that the banks have the authority to issue the digital currency, the paper says. The paper also follows an …

Shift4 Payments Inc. has been a busy payments provider in recent years, and early Monday the company made plain its pace will only get faster and will include continued expansion internationally. Traditionally focused on the U.S. market, executives told equity analysts the company had closed on its first acquisition in …

Two U.S.-based fintechs focused on blockchain payments technology have expanded their footprint into Singapore, giving both companies a jumping-off point for expanding their respective businesses in Asia. Circle Internet Financial LLC, a Boston-based company specializing in commercial blockchain and crypto applications, has received provisional approval from the Monetary Authority of …

Call me a sore loser, if you will, having just lost the prestigious G20 BIS 2022 CBDC contest to a payment company from the Philippines, Dragonpay. I arm myself with excuses. Perhaps. Dragon is a fine, accomplished outfit. The thoughtful judges saw more merit there than they identified in BitMint. …

Mastercard Inc.’s top executives early Thursday underscored a strategy for the company involving a diversity of payment flows and new network opportunities such as open banking and cryptocurrency. At the same time, the company’s leadership made plain the company will compete for debit volume in the wake of a Federal …

Events.com announced it has agreed to acquire Brown Paper Tickets, a payments processor for ticketing. Terms were not announced.PayPal Holdings Inc. said Amazon.com Inc. has added its Venmo digital wallet as a payment method on Amazon.com and in the Amazon mobile app. Venmo on Amazon will be available to U.S. customers by Nov. 25 …

BNY Mellon announced early Monday it has launched a payments platform called Vaia, which allows clients to offer real-time payments, same-day automated clearing house transfers, tokenized payments, debit cards, and payments through the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network. The nation’s 10th-largest bank by assets said the panoply of payments capabilities can …

IPwe Inc., a provider of predictive analytics and blockchain technology, is partnering with Advasa Co. Ltd., a provider of earned wage access solutions. The deal will enable Advasa’s to expand its earned wage access business globally. Earned wage access provides employees the ability to access a portion of their already …

Point-of-sale software developer Zuza launched its Zuza Marketplace on its Super App platform. Merchants can peruse the marketplace to find tools and third-party apps that can aid their businesses, Zuza said.U.S.-based Uplift, which offers buy now, pay later capability for the travel industry, announced Royal Air Maroc, a Morocco-based airline, has adopted its …

The Fed will debut FedNow next year. It will face a highly complex—and surprisingly competitive—market for the instant transfer of value. In the near future, most people will be able to exchange money instantly anywhere, any time. A patchwork of competing and collaborating national and multinational instant-payment systems with very …