Fiserv/page/3 news and trends

Fiserv-Wells Fargo Merchant Acquiring Joint Venture to Expire in April

September 27, 2024
Report: Private Equity Firms and Worldpay Are Logical Potential Buyers of Lightspeed
Acquisitions // September 27, 2024

With Lightspeed Commerce engaged in discussions of “potential strategic alternatives,” private equity firms and Worldpay are reportedly the most logical potential buyers of the point-of-sale (POS) and commerce platform. Jefferies analyst Trevor Williams wrote in a note Wednesday (Sept. 25) that along with those potential...

Walmart and Amazon Offer New Payment Options as Consumers Seek Flexibility
Retail // September 27, 2024

With consumers increasingly expecting to be able to pay however they want, Walmart and Amazon are adding new payment options. Walmart is working with Fiserv to provide real-time pay-by-bank options, with the transaction reflected in customers’ bank account balances immediately. The move marks an improvement...

Walmart Teams With Fiserv on Instant Bank Payments
Faster Payments // September 19, 2024

Walmart is reportedly enhancing its pay-by-bank offering via a partnership with Fiserv. The retailer began offering pay-by-bank with Walmart Pay earlier this year, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 19). But those transactions, processed through the Automated Clearing House, typically took three days to finalize. Under the...

Fiserv to Facilitate Merchant Access to PayPal, Venmo and Fastlane
Checkout Conversion // August 29, 2024

Fiserv clients will be able to more easily enable PayPal, Venmo and related services, and accelerate guest checkout flows in the U.S. via a simple connection point to Fastlane by PayPal. These enhancements are enabled by an expansion of the global strategic partnership of Fiserv...

Interviews & Exclusives
Walmart and Amazon Offer New Payment Options as Consumers Seek Flexibility

September 27, 2024
With consumers increasingly expecting to be able to pay however they want, Walmart and Amazon are adding new payment options. Walmart is working with Fiserv to provide real-time pay-by-bank options, with the transaction reflected in customers’ bank account balances immediately. The move marks an improvement on the retailer’s previous pay-by-bank test wherein the transaction would […]

Embedded Finance Emerges as Retail Conversion Solution

July 16, 2024
Embedded finance, as a concept, has been around for a while, but not in the technologically savvy, user-friendly form it takes in today’s iteration. Embedded finance has emerged as a...

Fiserv GM on the Pot of Gold at the End of the ISO Rainbow

May 31, 2024
As payments shift from traditional and manual workflows to automated, digital ones, everything will change. And that’s a good thing for global commerce. “Across the global landscape, three things are...

New Technology Puts Financial Improvements on the Menu for Restaurants

May 13, 2024
Even as Main Street businesses outperform the rest of the economy, there’s a whole different set of rules for restaurants. For example, PYMNTS Intelligence found that over the last 12...

Quick Reads
Fiserv-Wells Fargo Merchant Acquiring Joint Venture to Expire in April

September 27, 2024
Fiserv disclosed Wednesday (Sept. 25) that it expects its merchant acquiring joint venture with Wells Fargo to expire April 1, 2025. The joint venture, Wells Fargo Merchant Services (WFMS), is owned 40% by a Fiserv wholly owned subsidiary and 60% by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Fiserv said in a filing with the Securities and […]

Report: Private Equity Firms and Worldpay Are Logical Potential Buyers of Lightspeed

September 27, 2024
With Lightspeed Commerce engaged in discussions of “potential strategic alternatives,” private equity firms and Worldpay are reportedly the most logical potential buyers of the point-of-sale (POS) and commerce platform. Jefferies...

Walmart Teams With Fiserv on Instant Bank Payments

September 19, 2024
Walmart is reportedly enhancing its pay-by-bank offering via a partnership with Fiserv. The retailer began offering pay-by-bank with Walmart Pay earlier this year, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 19). But those...

Fiserv to Facilitate Merchant Access to PayPal, Venmo and Fastlane

August 29, 2024
Fiserv clients will be able to more easily enable PayPal, Venmo and related services, and accelerate guest checkout flows in the U.S. via a simple connection point to Fastlane by...