Walmart Inc. will start next spring allowing customers in Canada to pay with debit in-app and in-browser using wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay, the Canadian national payments network Interac announced Tuesday. Interac positions the new service as enabling so-called proprietary wallets, which it confirmed includes the apps from …
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Its SPAC Merger Behind It, Paya Reports Growth ‘Momentum’ From ACH
Paya Holdings Inc. is known for its base in integrated payments and for its processing concentration in card-not-present transactions. But what also became clear early Monday is its growing strength in bringing capability for automated clearing house payments to its roster of clients. “We have good momentum there,” said chief …
Read More »Visa Hits Back After the Justice Department Challenges the Network’s $5.3-Billion Plaid Deal
Visa Inc. on Thursday delivered a rebuke to the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit attempting to block its $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid Inc., calling the lawsuit “legally flawed and contradicted by the facts.” The Department of Justice, which had filed the suit hours earlier, charges that Visa’s deal for …
Read More »Cash App Delivers for Square in a Tough Year for Merchant Processing
In a year in which a fearsomely spreading virus has shut down many businesses and wrecked some, merchant-services provider Square Inc. has had to lean more heavily than ever on the other part of its business—the 7-year-old peer-to-peer payment service Cash App. And in the quarter ended Sept. 30, Cash …
Read More »Lightspeed Arms Itself for Heavy-Duty Competition With Its Acquisition of ShopKeep
Lightspeed POS Inc. on Thursday acquired ShopKeep Inc., a payments and commerce provider, for $440 million in cash and stock. Under the terms of the deal, Lightspeed will pay $145.2 million in cash and issue 9.5 million subordinate voting shares. The deal is expected to close by Dec. 31. RBC …
Read More »Its Deal for 3dcart Catapults an Ambitious Shift4 Into E-Commerce Processing
Shift4 Payments Inc. on Thursday jumped into e-commerce payments processing with both feet with its acquisition of 3dcart, a 23-year-old web-store platform with some 14,000 clients globally. Terms were not announced. The deal diversifies Allentown, Pa.-based Shift4’s product mix but also buttresses its long-term strategy aimed at moving merchants from …
Read More »MagTek’s New DynaFlex Targets Payment Acceptance Flexibility
MagTek Inc. released its DynaFlex platform. Announced Tuesday, the platform can serve as a countertop or mobile device, be mounted to a tablet, or affixed to a standalone kiosk. Designed to work with multiple configurations, DynaFlex is compatible with Windows and Android devices. It can accept payment via magstripe, EMV …
Read More »PayPal Enjoys a Robust Quarter As It Outlines a ‘Fundamental Overhaul’ of Its Apps
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s top executives late Monday laid out what chief executive Dan Schulman called “a fundamental overhaul” of the company’s PayPal and Venmo apps that will include a new cryptocurrency feature as well as bill payment and QR code capability on top of near-field communication technology and PayPal’s Pay …
Read More »Zelle Logs Double-Digit Increases As Consumers And Businesses Contend With Covid-19
Spurred by consumers’ need to send money to family and friends during the Covid-19 pandemic and an increasing number of financial institutions being onboarded, the Zelle peer-to-peer payment network announced Monday it processed $84 billion in transactions during the third quarter of 2020, up 18% from the second quarter. Consumers …
Read More »With Real-Time Networks on the Way, Processors Prepare to Give Businesses a Piece of the Action
As consumers adopt real-time payments in the coming years, payments providers are expecting businesses large and small to follow suit. News released Monday indicates preparations are already under way. Canadian processor Everlink Payments Services Inc. and Fintainium Inc., a Jacksonville, Fla.-based developer of cloud-based technologies for financial institutions, have agreed …
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