PopID, a consumer authentication service, said its PopPay payment service is used more than more 100 restaurant and retail brands. Approximately 70,000 registered users have authenticated their faces more than 4 million times. PopID recently closed on a $10 million Series B funding round and intends to expand to college campuses across …

U.S. payments networks continue to cultivate their connections to what is for them a potentially massive market in China. In the latest development, Leshua Technology announced early Friday it will support acquiring for American Express Co.’s joint venture in China.  AmEx last year became the first foreign payments company to win …

U.S. consumers are spending $273 per month on subscription services on average, up 15% from the average in 2018, yet they estimate they are spending less, according to a poll from consulting firm West Monroe.Payments provider Nuvei Corp. completed its $250-million cash acquisition of SimplexCC Ltd., a cryptocurrency gateway that links exchanges, brokers, wallets, …

The Financial Data Exchange (FDX), a non-profit standards body for providers of open-banking and open-finance applications, announced on Wednesday that the number of consumer accounts using its application programming interface has swelled to 22 million, up from 16 million in April, an increase of more than one million accounts per …

Same-day transaction processing on the automated clearing house network will turn five years old this month, and while that may provide one reason for participants to celebrate, network governor Nacha issued another one Wednesday morning: both same-day transactions and same-day dollar volume are soaring. Transactions totaled 148.7 million in the …

Next year, a new ISO standard will expand the size of BINs by two digits, creating a security issue. Here’s an approach to a solution. A card-identification standard set by the International Standards Organization mandated that banks switch over from the current six-digit Bank Identification Number (BIN) to eight-digit BINs …

Rather than simply performing housekeeping duties, the real payoff lies in adding functionality to the customer experience. Here’s how. Online shopping is more competitive than ever, yet many companies spend large portions of their budget just maintaining capabilities that do not give them any competitive advantage whatsoever. Let’s get specific. …

Here’s why the collection and sharing of data is in a second—and far better—phase. In today’s interconnected world, consumers want to be able to access information when, where, and how they want. Financial information is no exception. Given its nature and importance, however, the sharing of financial data comes with …

When automotive vehicles came on the road, they were described as “fast horses.” When the transistor replaced the vacuum tube, it was described as a “smaller switch.” And now that quantum computers are in the offing, they are being described as “faster computing machines.” We know very well that the …

The U.S. Department of Justice in August lent its weight to a proposed rule from the Federal Reserve Board that would reinforce merchants’ choice of networks for e-commerce transactions arising from debit cards. At the same time, it suggested the rule could be made more stringent. Justice’s support for the …