Same-day transaction processing on the automated clearing house network will turn five years old this month, and while that may provide one reason for participants to celebrate, network governor Nacha issued another one Wednesday morning: both same-day transactions and same-day dollar volume are soaring. Transactions totaled 148.7 million in the …
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Boku M-Payments Network Spans 90 Countries and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/19/21
Boku Inc. launched what it says is the world’s largest mobile-payments network. The M1ST Payments Network reaches 5.7 billion mobile-payment accounts in 90 countries and offers more than 330 payment methods, the company says.Global payments provider Adyen NV said Just Eat Takeaway.com, an online food-delivery marketplace, will issue its prefunded Takeaway Pay Card …
Read More »PayPal Ups the Ante in Buy Now, Pay Later By Dropping Late Fees
With the popularity of the buy now, pay later alternative growing, especially for online purchases, PayPal Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday it will no longer charge late fees for missed payments on its installment products in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, effective Oct. 1. PayPal has already eliminated …
Read More »Pulse Debit Study: Online And Contactless Usage Surges While Wallets Assert Themselves
The story of debit cards in the pandemic year of 2020 turns out to have several chapters—including higher average tickets, a sharp swing to card-not-present usage, a dramatic surge in contactless adoption, and higher mobile-wallet usage. Meanwhile, account-to-account transfers turned out to be the fastest-growing form of debit, though usage …
Read More »FIS Logs a Record Performance in the June Quarter As Merchant Volume Balloons
Led by robust growth in its merchant-processing unit, FIS Inc. Tuesday morning heralded a strong second quarter, with record sales and with momentum continuing deeper into the summer, according to the Jacksonville, Fla.-based company’s top executives. Speaking to equity analysts to discuss the company’s second-quarter results, management also outlined a …
Read More »Keep Your Cardholders: Compete with Buy Now, Pay Later Popularity
By Anita Lemaire, Product Executive, Global Cards and Payments, FIS The buy now, pay later (BNPL) market is expected to grow 181% by 2024, and will account for 13% of all global e-commerce payments that same year, according to the 2021 Global Payments Report by Worldpay from FIS. These post-purchase …
Read More »Nacha Volume Increases 10% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/27/21
Nacha, the governing body for the automated clearing house system, said the ACH network processed 7.3 billion payments in the second quarter, a 10% increase from 6.6 billion payments in the same period a year ago. Particularly strong growth in business-to-business payment volume helped boost the result. Nacha said that …
Read More »As Buy Now, Pay Later Usage Rises, It Bids to Become an ‘Option’ Rather Than Just a ‘Sweetener’
Consumer usage of buy now, pay later has increased significantly over the last couple of years. Research from Auriemma Consulting Group Inc. reveals the number of debit card holders offered a BNPL option in-store or online increased more than 10 percentage points between the first quarter of 2019 and the …
Read More »Shopify’s U.S. Sellers Get Affirm
With e-commerce sales booming, payments players are looking for combinations that can keep online customers engaged and add even more buyers to their ranks. An example emerged in June as Shopify Inc. and Affirm Inc. announced Affirm’s buy now, pay later service became available to “hundreds of thousands” of U.S. …
Read More »COMMENTARY: How Digital Revolving Credit Can Build a Lasting E-Commerce Model
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) options have become a staple in the E-commerce marketplace, mostly because they provide merchants and their customers an attractive and flexible alternative to credit cards. This has proven particularly appealing to younger shoppers such as Millennials, or Generation Z consumers up to 24 years old. …
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