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Steady Consumer Spending Helps Buoy Visa As It Strikes Deals for Open Banking

Citing “relative stability” across key business metrics, such as cross-border volume, Visa Inc. late Tuesday reported March-quarter increases of 10% year-over-year in both net revenue ($8.8 billion) and net income ($4.7 billion). Driven by stable consumer spending, dollar volume grew 8%, while total cross-border dollar volume grew 16% and processed …

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Busey Enlists Corserv for Card Program and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/8/24

Corserv, a payments provider for banks and fintechs, said it will work with Busey Bank to launch a credit card for the bank’s commercial clients. Synchrony Financial said BRP US Inc., a powersports and marine products maker, said it will Synchrony’s installment finance service to its dealers. The big France-based processor Worldline said …

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ACI Targets a Growing Digital Payments Market in the Middle East and Africa

ACI Worldwide Inc. announced early Monday it has signed a 10-year partnership with digital-payments technology provider Arab Financial Services. The deal is expected to accelerate ACI’s push to help financial institutions and fintechs in the Middle East and Africa modernize their digital-payments technology infrastructure, according to ACI. Under the terms …

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Payments 3.0: Risk And Opportunity for Cap One And Discover

The planned acquisition of Discover Financial Services by Capital One Financial Corp. will reshape the competitive landscape for consumer deposit accounts in the United States. Digital Transactions reported earlier that Capital One has already announced its intention to move its entire debit portfolio to the Discover Network once the deal …

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Volume for the Top 50 ACH Banks And Credit Unions Increases 5.7% in 2023

The top 50 originating financial institutions on the automated clearing house network hit nearly 27.7 billion in payments in 2023, a 5.7% increase over 2022, Nacha says. Volume for the top 50 receiving FIs was almost 20 billion payments in 2023, a 6.4% increase from 2022. Herndon, Va.-based Nacha says …

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Galileo Expands Its BNPL Program And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/19/24

Galileo Financial Technologies said it expanded its buy now, pay later platform to enable banks and fintechs to offer new installment plans post-purchase through the consumer’s existing debit or credit card. North American Bancard launched Payment Links on its platform. These are links merchants can adopt to direct customers to a payments …

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TCH’s ACH Volume up 8% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/12/24

The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s automated clearing house network, EPN, reported volume of more than 19 billion transactions for 2023, up 8%, with a total value of $52.4 trillion. Taulia, which provides technology to manage working capital, said it will incorporate into its Taulia Virtual Cards digital payments technology from Visa …

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What to Look for in the Coming Months

Challenges abound for card managers. Here’s how to manage them more efficiently. The payments space is one arena in the financial services industry that is uniquely ripe for change and disruption. The growth of embedded finance, cross-border payments, blockchain technology, real-time transactions and more are all combining to create a …

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Par Revenue up 10% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/27/24

Payments-technology provider Par Technology Corp. posted fourth-quarter 2023 revenue of $107.7 million, a 10.2% increase from $97.2 million in the corresponding 2022 quarter. It had a quarterly loss of $18.6 million, up from a loss of $13.5 million the year prior. For all of 2023, Par had $415.8 million in revenue, a …

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Google Pay’s U.S. Sunset And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/23/24

Alphabet Inc. will discontinue Google Pay, including its peer-to-peer payments capability, in the U.S. market on June 4, though it will maintain a Google Pay website.  In the place of Google Pay, which launched amid much fanfare in 2011, Alphabet is promoting Google Wallet, which appeared in 2022 with wider functionality than payments, …

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