Nacha, the regulatory body for the automated clearing house network, has named open-banking specialist MX Technologies Inc. a member of its Preferred Partner Program. MX is the 30th company to be named to the program.Consumers’ top five favorite ways to pay are debit cards, credit cards, cash, contactless, and mobile wallets, according …

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday afternoon narrowed the window for the launch of FedNow, its real-time payment service, to the weeks between May and July of 2023. The announcement, which came in a short address by Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard, is the latest in a series of updates …

To make modern fraud detection technology more accessible to community banks, Jack Henry & Associates Inc. late Thursday announced plans to launch early next year Financial Crimes Defender, a cloud-native platform for detecting fraud and other suspicious account activity that can hurt consumer’s financial health, as well as financial crimes, such …

The ATM world is about to get another publicly held company. Bitcoin Depot, a Bitcoin ATM operator with more than 7,000 machines in the United States and Canada, intends to go public in a merger with GSR II Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company.  Announced Thursday, the proposed deal …

MoviePass, a movie-theater subscription service, selected Usio Inc. as its exclusive prepaid card issuing platform. Usio will be the program manager and processor for the upcoming MoviePass debit card it plans to issue to all subscribers.PayPal Holdings Inc., in conjunction with National Philanthropic Trust and Vanguard Charitable, launched Grant Payments, a product …

The drive to create a data security standard designed for digital financial services applications that use cloud-computing, such as open banking, continues to gain momentum. Anecdotes AI Ltd, Codat Ltd., Skyflow Inc., and Very Good Security Inc. are the latest digital finance companies to join a group of financial technology …

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 …

Consumers are spending significantly less on their primary credit cards, says J.D. Power’s 2022 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study. Overall, credit card holders are allotting 42% of their monthly spending to their primary credit cards, down from 47% in 2021 and 2020, and down from 50% from 2019. That decline …

OrbaGraph, a payment automation firm, said Revenue Management Solutions acquired the company. Private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners funded the acquisition. Terms were not disclosed.Dan Price, cofounder of Gravity Payments, which set a minimum starting annual salary of $70,000 for his employees and cut his salary from $1 million …

Tulip.io Inc., a Toronto-based point-of-sale system provider, said it has a certified integration with Moneris Solutions Corp., a large payment processor in Canada. Moneris had a U.S. presence prior to 2016 when it sold the U.S. business to Vantiv Inc.The Western Union Co. said it has renewed an agreement to support digital …