• For its second quarter ended June 30, MoneyGram International Inc. reported transactions on its digital money transfer service grew 9% and accounted for 15% of all money-transfer transactions handled by the company. Revenue for the service increased 17% and accounted for 13% of overall money-transfer revenue. • Because of …

• Venmo, the peer-to-peer payment service from PayPal Holdings Inc., said all Venmo users now can use the service to make in-app purchases at participating merchants. Announced earlier this year, the in-app payment is available with 11 merchants. • Wireless transaction gateway Apriva said it has completed EMV certification for …

• Q2 Holdings Inc., a vendor of virtual-banking solutions to regional and community financial institutions, announced its plan to begin supporting the origination of same-day automated clearing house transactions on Sept. 23, the day the first phase of a three-phase introduction of same-day ACH is set to begin, as determined …

Visa Inc.’s disdain for the automated clearing house as a competing payments network has been a given for years, but never did it come into focus more than it did last week when the giant card network announced its wide-ranging agreement with PayPal Holdings Inc. The deal smoothed over a …

• Processor Vantiv Inc. launched the One Network Experience service for software developers. Dubbed O.N.E., the service offers a suite of integration tools, personalized help, and access to an online developer community. • Meta Financial Group Inc. said Meta Payment Systems, a division of MetaBank, a major prepaid card issuer, …

• MasterCard Inc. is mulling an application to become a licensed payment service provider in China, a massive payments market dominated by state-owned China UnionPay, according to Reuters. • agreement with Visa Inc. that includes promotion of Visa cards and a new point-of-sale thrust for PayPal. Visa was trading at …

• American Express Co. reported $2 billion in net income for the second quarter, including a $1.1 billion pre-tax gain from the sale of its Costco Wholesale Corp. cobranded portfolio to Citigroup Inc., which is now issuing a cobranded Costco Visa credit card. AmEx’s U.S. card-billed business grew 2% year …

• American Express Co. reported $2 billion in net income for the second quarter, including a $1.1 billion pre-tax gain from the sale of its Costco Wholesale Corp. cobranded portfolio to Citigroup Inc., which is now issuing a cobranded

A majority of Americans—62%—believe credit and debit cards and other electronic payments will replace cash in their lifetimes, finds a recent Gallup Inc. poll. But that doesn’t mean cash will disappear any time soon, experts say. Of the more than 1,000 consumers surveyed, only 11% said it is very unlikely and …

• Citing “changes in the market and an increasing number of mobile payment and banking options available” from financial institutions, the telco-led Canadian mobile-payments service suretap is shutting down as of Aug. 26, according to its Web site. The move follows the January 2015 failure of a similar telco-controlled venture …