The Latest
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Opinion
CFPB should reconsider prepaid rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should revisit its rule affecting digital wallets, peer-to-peer payments and prepaid cards, writes one fintech group leader.
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Brex CFO mulls long-term IPO scenario
The prevailing attitude among companies seeking to go public is to achieve profitability beforehand, Ben Gammell said.
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FIS eyes growth via acquisitions
Fidelity National Information Services is targeting revenue growth of as much as 4.5% this year as it scans the landscape for “tuck-in” acquisitions following the spin-off of Worldpay.
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Payments firms seek candidates for product, partner roles
Industry players are increasingly eager to hire executives for product development and partnership-oriented jobs, according to a report from recruiting firm SpencerStuart.
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EWA could create wage violations, Connecticut warns
The warning comes as states and the federal government weigh options for regulating earned wage access products.
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Shift4 to buy rival POS firm Revel for $250M
The payments processing company plans to incorporate Revel’s point-of-sale capabilities into its SkyTab POS system, Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacson said.
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Fed, OCC to hold meeting on Capital One-Discover deal
Concerns about the $35B merger proposal, which has already faced opposition, are likely to surface again at the July public meeting.
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Fed bombarded by debit card fee commentary
The Federal Reserve Board said it has received some 2,500 comment letters regarding its Regulation II proposal to cut the fees that merchants are charged when they accept debit cards.
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CFPB will keep defending late fee cap
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s $8 late fee cap on Friday, but the federal agency said it will continue to “defend” the rule.
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7-Eleven testing financial services in stores
The retailer will add terminals to 3,000 of its Speedway locations and test services like cryptocurrency purchases with ATM solution provider FCTI.
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Toast CFO weighs in on Visa-Mastercard settlement
The restaurant-focused payments company expects to see an impact from lowered interchange fees by the second half of 2025.
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CFPB, DOT take aim at airline rewards
The two agencies raised concerns that airlines and card companies could arbitrarily devalue points accrued in their joint rewards programs, amounting to a bait-and-switch for customers.
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Mastercard joint venture starts operations in China
The collaboration with a Chinese entity began Wednesday, with processing of cards issued by banks in the country following years of preparations.
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Jack Henry, Visa see escalating FedNow volume
While the Federal Reserve won’t specify payments volume on the new instant system, executives from certified service providers Visa and Jack Henry said they’re seeing an increase.
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Fed, TCH joust over interoperability
When it comes to bridging the FedNow and RTP networks, officials at the Federal Reserve and The Clearing House have slightly different priorities.
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US leads global commercial card market: report
The U.S. accounted for 58% of global commercial card spend last year, but also for 78% of total value lost to card fraud, according to a report by Euromonitor International.
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Block integrates Afterpay with Cash App card
The test offering provides buy now, pay later financing to a limited number of users of Block’s Cash App debit card for “a small fee.”
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Will EWA payments expand with real-time?
While some earned wage access providers use real-time payments to make distributions to employees, the big payroll services provider ADP doesn’t see employers gravitating to that option.
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Merchants urged to file claims for $5.5B payment card settlement
Requests for a slice of the Visa-Mastercard settlement are due by a May 31 deadline. Lawyers are racing to alert eligible businesses.
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BNPL users tend to have lower incomes: Bank of America
The bank analyzed its BNPL user data and discovered low-income consumers are more likely to use installment payment services. It’s also popular among millennial and Gen X consumers.
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Block’s Dorsey rebuffs compliance allegations
The head of the payments company began an earnings call Thursday with a defense against a former employee’s allegations of compliance improprieties.
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Automatic age verification comes to self-checkout
Artificial intelligence is speeding up store checkout in a pilot by banking tech company Diebold Nixdorf using tech to verify a customer’s age.
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Global Payments to wrap review soon
The payments processor plans to finish an assessment of operations in the next few months, aiming to streamline its business and pare units it can’t scale.
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US inches forward on real-time payments: report
“Real-time payments are still in their infancy in the U.S., accounting for only a 1.5% share of the total payments volume in 2023,” ACI Worldwide said.
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Opinion
Pay-by-bank holds promise
“The value proposition of pay-by-bank is clear: merchants win from drastically lower payment costs and consumers win from lower prices,” writes one fintech executive.