Usio Inc. is jumping into the point-of-sale credit arena with its own service, which enables businesses to offer instant credit to customers without the risk of consumer lending. Announced Tuesday, the service enables merchants to offer POS financing without integration issues or credit concerns, Usio says. “Any business that deals …

In a bid to strengthen its hand with small businesses, Elavon, the Atlanta-based merchant-acquiring subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, has launched talech Register, a payments and business analytics platform that, Elavon says, enables small business owners to manage their operations more efficiently. Elavon is initially offering two bundled packages for restaurants …

PayNearMe Inc. has added one more state for its iGaming and sports-betting processing business. The latest expansion, to Kansas, brings to 20 the number of states in which the payments and electronic billing platform provider has iGaming operations. The expansion also comes just as the collegiate football and National Football …

The technology of credit cards has undergone a revolution since the days of magnetic stripes. The credit card has come a long way since Forrest and Dorothea Parry invented it in 1960. Forrest was an IBM engineer working on barcode systems and optical character readers when he came up with …

The U.S. Senator’s bill to regulate credit card costs on behalf of merchants has stirred passions not seen since…the Durbin Amendment. All the major card-issuing banks must be asking themselves by now what Democratic Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois has against them. Like some old Hollywood horror-film refugee, the Senator …

Last month, the U.S. automated clearing house network reported a double-digit increase year-over-year in transactions in the second quarter while dollar volume ballooned 94%. Nacha, the network operator, also said the volume of all transactions on the system reached 7.5 billion, up from 7.3 billion in the first quarter. That’s …

With consumer spending for concessions and merchandise purchases steadily increasing at sports stadiums, SpotOn Transact, LLC, which provides point-of-sale and digital-ordering systems to 37 stadiums across the National Football League and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, is gearing up for an increase in volume for the 2022 professional and collegiate …

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 …

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides low-income families with benefits to supplement their food budget, suffered a nationwide outage on Sunday, according to news reports. The cause of the outage, which reportedly affected millions of recipients, is unknown. On Sunday several state agencies that help the U.S. Department …

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 …