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More Consumers Would Pay With Venmo If They Understood It
April 10, 2024

For account-to-account (A2A) payment providers, PYMNTS Intelligence research finds, education continues to present a huge barrier to adoption. By the Numbers A2A payments, which bypass the middleman to move money quickly from one account to another, commonly enabled by providers such as PayPal, Venmo or...

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CHIPS Marks Migration to ISO 20222 Messaging
April 10, 2024

The Clearing House says its CHIPS network has migrated to the ISO 20022 messaging format. The adoption of this format by CHIPS (Clearing House Interbank Payment System) enhances the efficiency of payments processing, The Clearing House (TCH) said in a news release on Wednesday (April 10), two...

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Boomers Lead Trend Toward Paying for Necessities With Subscriptions
April 08, 2024

When you think of subscriptions, an array of products and services likely come to mind.  From streaming services to pet foods to coffee pods to yoga classes, consumers of all ages have embraced subscription payment plans to cover the costs of the items they enjoy...

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The Clearing House: CHIPS Saved Users $4.9 Billion in 2023
April 02, 2024

The Clearing House said its CHIPS system saved participants $4.9 billion in 2023. Those savings were derived from the CHIPS (Clearing House interbank payment system) liquidity savings algorithm to the tune of $13.8 million per day, The Clearing House (TCH) said in a Tuesday (April 2)...

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Paypal and Venmo Begin Offering Visa+ P2P Payments
April 02, 2024

Visa said PayPal and Venmo are now offering its Visa+ peer-to-peer (P2P) payment system. “As we continue to expand the P2P use case in the U.S., Current and Western Union will join PayPal and Venmo in enabling cross-platform money movement,” the company said in a Monday (April 1) news release as it announced the expansion of...

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Cannabis Businesses Find Themselves Cut Off From Banking System
April 02, 2024

More than half of all Americans live in a state that has legalized marijuana. All the same, legitimate cannabis businesses still find themselves dealing with the same problem as drug dealers operating outside the law: what to do with all their cash. As the Wall...

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3 Strikes and Cashiers Are Out at the New Ball Game
March 30, 2024

Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible. Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field is expanding its use of Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless checkout technology, according to a March 21...

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Bidpath Launches Payments Platform Designed for Auctions
March 29, 2024

Bidpath has launched a payments platform designed for auction payments. The new AuctionPay platform is designed to streamline merchant services for auctioneers and organizations, catering to both online and in-person payments, the provider of global online auction software said in a Friday (March 29) press release. The platform is...

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Capital A to Integrate Ant International’s Payment Orchestration Services
March 29, 2024

Ant International and AirAsia owner Capital A Berhad are exploring ways to integrate more local payments methods and payment orchestration services into Capital A’s platform. The companies have formed a strategic partnership that also includes looking at marketing and digitization solutions for Capital A’s entire...