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ACH Debit, Credit Transactions Hit 5.7B In Q1
May 01, 2018

NACHA, the Electronic Payments Association, announced news on Monday (April 30) that ACH debit and credit transactions totaled nearly 5.7 billion in the first quarter of 2018. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

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Five At Five: India Moves Toward Sophisticated Payments
April 30, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include a discussion about how India could go from credit card laggard to having one of the most sophisticated payments systems in the world, the...

Merchant Innovation
Western Union Now Accepts WeChat On Its GlobalPay For Students Platform
April 30, 2018

Western Union, the global payments services company, announced news on Monday (April 30) that it has added WeChat Pay to its WU GlobalPay for Students products via an alliance with Geoswift, a payment company specializing in payment solutions in and out of China. Get the...

Cross-border Payments
Circle International Inks Cross-Border Payment Deal With Lakala
April 30, 2018

Circle International Holdings, the Australian payments company, announced news on Monday (April 30) of a new strategic partnership with payment gateway company Lakala. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

Retail
Cutting Clerks Is Cutting Into Retail Sales
April 30, 2018

The brick-and-mortar store closures that have swept through retail in recent years have captured a lot of attention, but the purge of retail staff has actually been bigger and is often absent from the headlines, according to news from The Wall Street Journal. Get the...

Retail
The Retail Pulse: ‘Eat Fresh’ Goes Stale
April 30, 2018

It appears that “Eat Fresh” has gone stale. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you...

Retail
Chico’s Teams Up With Amazon For Apparel Sales
April 30, 2018

As Amazon adds established clothing brands to its platform, Chico’s FAS will become one of the latest companies to sell its merchandise on the eCommerce retailer’s site. The company’s brands include Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma, CNBC reported. “Chico’s FAS will be one of...

Retail
The Quiet Sea Change At QVC
April 30, 2018

QVC Home shopping used to mean something quite different in the United States than it does today. In the pre-digital, pre-web and pre-Amazon world, shopping at home meant shopping from the couch — from TV channels like QVC or HSN, but a similar model no matter which way...

B2B Payments
The Biggest Banking, Regulatory Challenges For Today’s Entrepreneur
April 30, 2018

National Small Business Week is this week in the U.S., and finance experts are celebrating with new data on the state of the entrepreneurial community. The verdict, overall, is quite good: Small business optimism is, again, at new heights. But analysts from Bank of America,...