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• U.S. Bank said customers can now make free, real-time person-to-person payments via Early Warning Services LLC’s clearXchange network; the bank charged a $6.95 fee for real-time payments when it went live on clearXchange earlier this year. • Processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. announced top-level executive changes with president …
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Masterpiece or Showpiece?
Why skepticism is setting in not just about Bitcoin but also about its underlying technology, the blockchain. Like Beanie Babies and baseball cards, Bitcoin has become a collector’s item, curtailing its usefulness as the faster, cheaper consumer payment method it was developed to be. Out of these adoption delays has …
Read More »Masterpiece or Showpiece?
Why skepticism is setting in not just about Bitcoin but also about its underlying technology, the blockchain. Like Beanie Babies and baseball cards, Bitcoin has become a collector’s item, curtailing its usefulness as the faster, cheaper consumer payment method it was developed to be. Out of these adoption delays has …
Read More »Wells Fargo’s New Payment Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Noting that U.S. businesses send consumers write 3 billion paper checks annually, Wells Fargo & Co. said it will allow companies to send consumer payments electronically through a new service called Payment Manager B2P, expected to roll out early next year. The service will work with the clearXchange peer-to-peer …
Read More »Apple Pay Boosts Vending Revenue and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Visa Inc.’s Canadian unit posted an “open letter” in Canadian newspapers Thursday to protest Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s plan to stop accepting Visa cards in its 400 Canadian stores beginning July 18 because of allegedly high acceptance costs. “Wal-Mart has initiated a public flight—something we never wanted—as they are using …
Read More »Plastc Adds NFC Capability and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Total System Services Inc. (TSYS) said it is integrating a machine-learning engine from Featurespace that will allow the processor to generate real-time decisions on individual consumers. TSYS says the speedier fraud-control processing will help prepare its clients for the arrival of real-time payments. • Plastc Inc., which markets a …
Read More »Democratizing Money
Peer-to-peer payments are taking center stage as banks, processors, and tech companies roll out new ways to displace cash. But will providers cash in? The headlines mostly tell of the problem-plagued EMV chip card rollout in the U.S. or wishfully hope that mobile payments will finally catch on with consumers …
Read More »ACH Alert Thwarts $615 Million in Fraud and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Fidelity National Information Services Inc. and The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC announced they will launch a pilot for real-time payments in the first quarter of next year. The system will focus initially on bill payments and will use FIS technology along with The Clearing House’s real-time payment platform. …
Read More »What’s Ahead in 2016?
What do industry leaders foresee for 2016? Many feel the number of announcements will level off, but there will be a few big, even game-changing, ones. Drew Luca, a partner at PwC, feels we will see mobile-payments companies undergoing the industry consolidation and interoperability that is necessary to fulfill the …
Read More »ClearXchange Gaining Security Elements Following Purchase by Early Warning
ClearXchange, a bank-owned person-to-person payments company that launched a real-time payments service in June, says its merger with Early Warning Services LLC will assuage concerns about security as more consumers and financial institutions use the service. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Early Warning announced Monday it will buy San Francisco-based clearXchange for …
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