Consumer Direct ACH Payments — 2025

Added to FedACH and EPN network volumes is an estimated 7.00 billion transactions processed in-house by financial institutions when the recipient and the payor of an ACH item are customers of the same financial institution.

Badge Opens Access to Apple and Google Wallets

Badge has raised $17.1 million in capital since its founding in 2023. A $13.8-million Series A round in December 2025 was led by TTV Capital, with participation from Stripe, Synchrony Ventures and Infinity Ventures.

Visa Partners with Amenify

Cardholders will earn Amenify Cash when they use their Visa
card to pay rent. Those rewards could offset any service fee
property managers impose to cover interchange fees they pay.

Affirm Adds Fiserv for Debit Buy Now, Pay Later

Financial institutions connected to Fiserv’s EPOC debit card processing platform will be able to embed Affirm’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) services in the mobile apps they offer their cardholders. Affirm announced a similar deal with FIS in February 2025. Fiserv, Visa DPS and FIS are the top three third-party processors in the US for […]

Visa and Mastercard Worldwide thru 3Q 2025

For the first nine months of 2025, debit, credit and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide with Visa and Mastercard brands generated $17.136 trillion in purchase volume.

FreedomPay and Nuvei Form Global Partnership

Multinational, enterprise-size merchants are the prospective customers for an in-store and digital commerce payment service that unites Nuvei and FreedomPay. The companies are integrating via Nuvei’s T2A protocol.