• The Zelle person-to-person payments network announced its service will go live in the mobile-banking apps of more than 30 financial institutions beginning this week and continuing over the next 12 months. The coverage will include more than 86 million mobile-banking consumers, Zelle said, adding that more than 51 million transactions totaling more …
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The Case for Real-Time Payments Will Have To Be Compelling, An Expert Argues
As the U.S. payments system collectively ambles toward real-time payments, proponents will have to ensure its benefits outweigh those of existing expedited payments options. That’s one recommendation from the “Justifying Real-Time Payments in the United States” report released Tuesday by Maynard, Mass.-based Mercator Advisory Group Inc. The report examines the …
Read More »What To Watch in Payments
What are the ingredients of payments modernization in the United States? I suggest there are three: 1. Faster Payments The race to create a U.S. faster-payments system has begun. What’s not clear is what it will look like at the finish line. The variety of systems being either launched or …
Read More »Bambora Makes U.S. Debut and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Merchant processor Cayan has acquired Dallas-based Card Payment Services LLC, which processes more than $700 million annually for the waste-disposal industry. Terms were not announced. • Beanstream, a Canada-based payments provider that operated in the United States as Beanstream USA, has adopted its parent company’s name—Bambora—and will now will act as the …
Read More »Slow on the Uptake for Faster Payments
The subject of faster payments has been in the news almost continually for months now, but apparently awareness of the subject, and in some cases adoption, remains lower than expected among the financial institutions that will be depended on to implement speedier settlement. That’s if survey results released in April …
Read More »Ninth Annual Field Guide to Alternative Payments
The increasing commercialization of mobile payments is showing up in a proliferation of so-called Pays from a bevy of banks, tech companies, and merchants. Time was, a cutting-edge alternative-payment service involved entering card or bank-account details into a branded interface on a laptop computer. Mobile payments were nascent, held back …
Read More »Ninth Annual Field Guide to Alternative Payments
The increasing commercialization of mobile payments is showing up in a proliferation of so-called Pays from a bevy of banks, tech companies, and merchants. Time was, a cutting-edge alternative-payment service involved entering card or bank-account details into a branded interface on a laptop computer. Mobile payments were nascent, held back …
Read More »Slow on the Uptake for Faster Payments
The subject of faster payments has been in the news almost continually for months now, but apparently awareness of the subject, and in some cases adoption, remains lower than expected among the financial institutions that will be depended on to implement speedier settlement. That’s if survey results released in April …
Read More »PayPal Tops 203 Million Consumer Accounts As Partnerships Begin To Pay Off
Pay with Venmo, a fledgling merchant-payments service from PayPal Holdings Inc., is advancing to a broader testing stage with merchants, PayPal chief executive Dan Schulman said during a conference call with analysts to discuss the company’s first-quarter results Wednesday. Announced in 2016, One Touch is PayPal’s rapidly growing checkout service …
Read More »Apriva Receives EMV Certifications and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Mastercard Inc. said it has completed testing of a biometric-enabled payment card in South Africa. The card contains fingerprint scanning technology. Cardholders enroll their fingerprints at their financial institutions, which are then stored as a digital template on the card. The card can be used in an EMV point-of-sale terminal. Mastercard …
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