The Federal Reserve Board is set to revisit its longstanding limit on debit card interchange on Wednesday, and most observers expect the Fed to lower it. But ask Visa Inc. about the matter—as analysts did Tuesday afternoon during the network’s September-quarter earnings call—and its top executives outwardly at least profess …

Bitpay, a provider of cryptocurrency-based payments services, said it is working with crypto-technology provider Banxa to enlarge access to payments using digital currency. Shield Compliance, a compliance provider for cannabis banking, issued an open letter to American Express, Discover, Mastercard, and Visa calling on the networks to permit financial institutions …

Solutions by Text is adding embedded bill-payment capabilities to its FinText messaging and payments platform. Consumers will now be able to pay bills through the FinText platform without leaving the platform’s Web site or mobile app, which creates a more convenient payment experience, the company says. Transactions will be processed …

The Federal Reserve said FedNow, its real-time payments service that launched in July with 35 banks and credit unions, now counts 108 participating institutions with 21 others providing liquidity and settlement services and 20 service providers. Kenneth C. Montgomery, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston first vice president and chief operating officer who spearheaded …

The Fed’s new real-time payments platform will pose challenges for risk management. Here’s how to cope with that. The U.S. Federal Reserve made its FedNow instant-payments service live in July. It enables a faster flow of cash for companies and individuals, improving the overall flow of money through the U.S. …

Now that FedNow is available, the real work begins. But will the new system compete or collaborate with existing real-time networks? FedNow, the real-time payments service from the Federal Reserve, launched with 35 participating institutions on July 20, almost 13 years after the Fed’s same-day automated clearing house settlement window …

The Federal Reserve issued a set of market practices, or a kind of blueprint, as part of an effort to introduce standards for a request for payment function for bill pay on the regulator’s FedNow real-time payments service, which launched nationwide in July. Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit launched Tap to Pay on Android …

Innovative Payment Solutions Inc. announced it has completed the second of three $500,000 capital contributions to IPSIPay Express LLC, a joint venture aimed at processing digital payments in the sports-betting and online-gaming markets. Partnering with IPSI in the venture are OpenPath and eFinityPay. Reports indicate a security breach at T-Mobile exposed sensitive data, …

The payments platform FreedomPay said it is expanding its partnership with the processor Worldpay to cover more geographic markets globally. FIS Inc. in July agreed to sell a 55% interest in Worldpay to the private-equity firm GTCR in a deal expected to close in 2024’s first quarter. Buy now, pay later specialist Sezzle Inc. announced an …

Commerce platform FreedomPay said it will begin offering point-of-sale devices from Pax Technology Inc. in the second quarter next year. Visa Inc. announced it will deploy its real-time payments network, Visa Direct, to allow users of United Kingdom-based money-transmission platform Paysend to route payments to eligible Visa cards in 170 countries and territories. …