Imagine initiating a payment on your phone and seeing it settle into your payee’s account as fast—or just about as fast—as if you had handed him the same sum in cash. The dream of instant payments has been around probably for as long as electronic rails have existed for money …
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Fiserv Tweaks Carat Data Access And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/29/22
Fiserv Inc. said its Carat operating system has added a capability for large enterprises to more readily access and analyze payments data.Mastercard Inc. said it is launching Strive USA, a small business imitative, in the United States for the first time. The goal is to support 5 million SMBs over the next five years.Also, …
Read More »Get Set for a Virtual Card Tsunami, Juniper Research Says
Virtual payment cards have been around for more than a decade, but now they appear to be poised for big growth with the rise of e-commerce and the wide availability of digital wallets. Indeed, the volume of transactions arising from these cards will balloon from 28 billion worldwide this year …
Read More »Finastra Adds Visa Direct for Payouts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/23/22
Financial-technology provider Finastra said it is incorporating Visa Direct, a real-time push-payment capability developed by Visa Inc., as a cross-border payout offering for banks.Coinsquare, a crypto asset trading platform based in Canada, said it has agreed to acquire Simply Digital Technologies Inc., owner of the CoinSmart trading platform and a unit of …
Read More »Galileo Teams With DataVisor to Launch All-in-One Fraud Detection Beyond Credit Cards
Galileo Financial Technologies LLC said late Tuesday it is partnering with DataVisor Inc. to enhance its fraud-detection technology beyond credit cards to include such payments options as debit cards and the automated clearing house. The new technology will also include provisioning and onboarding of new accounts. The partnership comes as …
Read More »Early Warning And Its Zelle Network Celebrate Five Years of Rising P2P Volume
Underscoring the rapid growth of digital payments between individuals, the Zelle Network early Thursday celebrated five years in business with numbers showing it has processed more than 5 billion transactions worth almost $1.5 trillion. In that time, almost 1,700 banks and credit unions have added Zelle to their mobile apps, …
Read More »As E-Commerce Soars, Network Tokens Take off
Visa Inc. announced late Wednesday it has now issued more network tokens than there are physical Visa cards, eight years after the launch of the Visa Token Service. With a boom in e-commerce and other digital applications, the service has now issued more than 4 billion tokens, Visa said, almost …
Read More »COMMENTARY: Don’t Even Try to Enter iGaming Without a Digital Wallet Offering
The regulated online sports-betting and casino market in the United States has exploded in recent years following the Supreme Court’s repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) back in 2018. This repeal put the power to regulate single-event sports betting in state hands, with many subsequently passing …
Read More »Fed Accounts Are Now Open to Fintechs With a Bank Charter Under New Guidelines
For years, payments fintechs with a bank charter have labored under a requirement that, for money movement, deposit-taking, and other related services, they largely had to work with another federally chartered bank. This week, the nation’s top banking regulator announced an important change to its rules that could sweep away …
Read More »BitPay Launches a Rewards Program for Its Crypto-Based Prepaid Card
The drive to encourage consumers to use cryptocurrency to pay for transactions at the point-of-sale shifted into a higher gear Wednesday as BitPay Inc. announced the launch of a cash-back rewards program for its prepaid card. Cardholders, who will be automatically enrolled in the rewards program, can earn up to …
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