Tag: transactions

May 13, 2024

Almost six years after the enactment of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), issued a Notice of […]

January 25, 2024

NSF fees are typically incurred when a transaction is processed and then declined due to lack of funds through payments made via cheques, electronic authorisations or the Automated Clearing House (ACH). Data published by the Bureau in 2022 suggests that […]

December 20, 2023

As previously reported, regulations and restrictions on Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) have expanded quickly in the United States and in many of its trading partner countries around the world. FDI has been further complicated in the U.S. by the passage […]

November 21, 2023

Explore the evolution of payment solutions with David Sharp, EverCommerce General Manager. Discover how embedded payment options enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction. In today’s digital age, how businesses handle payments has evolved dramatically. Gone are the days when customers had […]

October 23, 2023

The solution leverages Mastercard’s open banking technology to enable consumers to share their financial data to pay third parties directly from their bank account using traditional ACH banking rails. This process eliminates the need for customers to manually enter their […]

September 12, 2022

The Retail Pos Terminal Market revenue is expected to cross a valuation of US$ 60 billion by 2030, according to latest research study by Global Market Insights Inc. The growing customer inclination towards cashless transactions as a leading factor driving […]

December 27, 2021

Business owners know that data entry errors can lead to a lot of wasted time and money. But they also may not realize the extent to which those errors could be avoided by taking small precautions. For example, if you’re […]

July 13, 2021

San Antonio-based Frost Bank launched a new feature for its direct deposit account holders that allows them to access their wages up to two days early, the bank announced Tuesday. “People come up short from time to time,” said Jimmy […]

July 13, 2021

In the earliest moments just after midnight on January 1 each year, millions of people worldwide establish resolutions. While I won’t bore you with my resolution for 2020, I will admit that it was not to spend 11 months of […]

May 19, 2021

Blockchain technologies use a shared ledger of sorts to record transactions over a decentralized network of computational devices. Blockchain technologies enable operations in real time, thus taking away the need for a central clearing authority. This saves time as well […]

April 13, 2021

Digital payments have clearly been catching on with the annual volume climbing by more than a billion annually in each of the past six years and the annual value growing by more than $1 trillion in each of the last […]

March 30, 2021

The USD Coin option, which is pegged to the US dollar, will become available to more partners “later this year”, the card issuing giant said on Monday. “We see increasing demand from consumers across the world to be able to […]

January 7, 2021

According to Reuters, Trump issued the executive order just 15 days before his successor, Joe Biden, is set to be inaugurated. It bans transactions in the US via major Chinese Big Tech wallet providers including Ant Group and Tencent. President-elect […]

November 25, 2020

Drones have arrived on Wall Street. Goldman Sachs, the world’s top mergers advisor, is among investment banks using drone technology to give its clients a bird’s-eye view of the companies they are bidding on, according to Stephan Feldgoise, the firm’s […]

January 30, 2020

Between April and October 2020, 31 Lloyds branches will be shut, as well as 10 of the group’s Halifax branches and 15 of the group’s Bank of Scotland branches. It is understood that Lloyds group has closed a around 655 […]

December 17, 2019

The payments provider is arguing that the regulator has dismissed its arguments that digital wallets do not operate in the same way as reloadable debit cards. As a result, PayPal says the agency’s guidelines are forcing it to be “misleading […]

November 29, 2018

One hundred seventy officers searched the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and five other sites in the area early Thursday as part of a money-laundering investigation involving hundreds of millions of euros, prosecutors in Frankfurt said. Two employees, who […]

April 19, 2018

Batavia, a blokchain-based trade finance platform developed by a consortium of international banks and IBM, has passed its first live pilot transactions with corporate clients. Jointly developed by Bank of Montreal (BMO), CaixaBank, Commerzbank, Erste Group, IBM and UBS, the […]

June 28, 2016

Wells Fargo will launch real-time person-to-person (P2P) transactions in the US – for more than 17 million mobile customers. Beginning 1 August, the service will allow Wells Fargo’s customers to send funds in real-time at “no cost” to any customer […]

March 15, 2016

Armor Payments, co-founded by former PayPal Director, Scott Reynolds, is the “only licensed B2B payments provider offering Escrow-as-a-Service (EaaS)”. Through the acquisition, the new integrated Armor Payments Payoneer Escrow solution will allow B2B buyers and suppliers to engage in cross-border […]