Tuesday , October 8, 2024

Plaid Collaborates with Ansa and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/8/24

  • Open-banking platform Plaid is collaborating with digital-wallet provider Ansa to offer a pay-by-bank capability to restaurants and other merchants, with wallet transactions handled via the automated clearing house.
  • Payments-technology platform Modern Treasury launched widened support for connectivity to FedNow and The Clearing House’s RTP network for real-time payments, as well as other moves to expand the availability of instant transfers.
  • The grocery chain H-E-B said its stores will begin accepting contactless payments in a multi-week rollout starting this week in San Antonio. The company has more than 430 stores in Texas and Mexico.
  • Toast Inc., a specialist in restaurant point-of-sale technology, launched new products, including a branded mobile app and a marketing capability using text messaging.
  • Canada-based payments provider Nuvei Corp. will work with the Japan-based card issuer JCB International to expand card acceptance to e-commerce merchants in Singapore and Hong Kong, the parties announced.
  • Event-ticketing platform Ticketbud launched Ticketbud Payments, a payment-processing facility, in league with the processor Finix.
  • The average U.S. household spends $25,512 each year on essential household bills, or slightly more than one-third of that household’s median income, according to the 2024 State by State Bill Pay Market Report from bill-pay processor doxo.
  • Bluefin announced it will bring PCI-validated point-to-point encryption to retail petroleum forecourts in a collaboration with Dover Fueling Solutions, a provider of customer-facing technology for the fuel and c-store sector.
  • Former Paysafe Ltd. executive Hiep Tran has joined Canada-based processor Kort Payments as chief strategy officer and as a member of the company’s board. Also joining Kort’s board is former Paysafe executive Daniel Kornitzer.
  • Papanii Okai has left his position as chief technology officer at Venmo to join Rocket Companies as executive vice president of product engineering. Venmo is a unit of PayPal Holdings Inc.

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