Money transfer firm Wise saw its number of active customers grow 29% year over year during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024. That growth brought its total number of active customers to 7.9 million, Wise said in a trading update released Tuesday (April 16). Among those customers...
Business data API provider Codat and JPMorgan Chase have teamed to promote virtual card adoption. It’s the thinking behind the launch of Codat’s Supplier Enablement data product. Announced Tuesday (April 16), it lets businesses more easily share their spending and supplier data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and...
The Bank of England is studying the use of new technologies to enhance both retail and wholesale payments functionality. While the central bank has been focused on establishing regulatory regimes for the use of stablecoins for retail payments, “we are increasingly complementing that work with a focus...
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...
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...
Mastercard realigned its organizational structure to support its strategic priorities and position itself for “the next era of growth.” The realignment centers on three teams: Core Payments; Commercial and New Payment Flows; and Services, the company said in a Tuesday (April 9) press release. “These changes will...
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...
Mastercard has added new cardholder benefits that include offers from health and wellness, travel and lifestyle brands. The new offerings include benefits for consumer cardholders and small business cardholders, the company said in a Thursday (April 4) press release. “From savvy shoppers to ambitious entrepreneurs, Mastercard provides...
Visa launched a new Subscription Manager service that financial institutions can provide to Visa cardholders. The new service provides a single place where consumers can see where their card details are stored, view recurring payments attributed to their card and stop recurring payments, the company said...