Merchant losses from online payment fraud globally will total more than $362 billion in the years from 2023 to 2028, according to a forecast from Juniper Research. So-called swipe fees on credit card transactions will increase Fourth of July costs for U.S. consumers by more than $500 million, according to the Merchants Payments …

Digital-banking platform Tyfone Inc. said it will work with One Credit Union to offer a real-time payment service certified for FedNow, the national real-time payments system that the Federal Reserve is expected to launch next month. Jane Technologies Inc. introduced a point-of-sale system customized for cannabis stores. Smart Pay has launched its Smart Pay …

The global investment firm KKR has agreed to purchase up to 40 billion euros ($43.7 billion) in loan receivables generated by PayPal Holdings Inc. in its buy now, pay later programs in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The transaction is said to include “substantially” all of the European BNPL loan portfolio …

JPMorgan Chase & Co. late on Friday said it had resolved an issue that was generating duplicate online transactions and fees on customers’ checking accounts. The bank said it was issuing refunds or reversing transactions. At least some of the transactions had been generated through the Zelle peer-to-peer payments platform, though …

[Updated with new information over the weekend] An unknown number of Chase online-banking customers experienced duplicate Zelle debits to their accounts on Friday, while most anecdotal evidence suggests payees received only one payment. Zelle, the online peer-to-peer payment service, is integrated into Chase’s mobile app and online site. Early Warning …

J.P. Morgan launched its Payments Partner Network, a cloud-based online marketplace for payments providers integrated with the banking giant’s payments platform. The marketplace’s technology is supported by Salesforce. Five-year-old cryptocurrency-wallet provider Magic raised $52 million in a funding round led by PayPal Ventures. The round brings Magic’s total raise to $80 million. Digital …

The fraud that threatens real-time payments is quicker—and demands quicker action. Today’s world of instant gratification is about to take another big leap forward in July when a second real-time payments network debuts with the launch of FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s instant-payment network. Announced as a concept in 2019, two …

FedNow is set for commercial launch next month, but if you’re wondering how the Federal Reserve’s shiny new real-time payments service is going to be used and what it will cost, just look at how early participants are putting it to work now. As Digital Transactions learned this spring, the …

Fiserv Inc. will discontinue its longstanding Popmoney peer-to-peer payments service on June 30, the processing giant said, following notices being posted by participating banks. The move comes as the processing giant shifts its priorities to supporting the bank-owned Zelle network, according to a Fiserv spokesperson. “Due to the tremendous success …

Payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. said it has completed testing and certification necessary to participate in the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payment service, set to launch in July. Identity-verification specialist Veriff said it will provide its services through processor MassPay’s payments-orchestration platform. Warning of more fraud as peer-to-peer and real-time payments gain volume, technology firm ComplyAdvantage launched Fraud Detection, which …