SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Usio, Inc. (Nasdaq:USIO), a leading provider of integrated, cloud-based electronic payment and embedded financial solutions, today announced record processing and transaction volumes across virtually all of its businesses for the three months ended September 30, 2025.

Usio, Inc. President and CEO Louis Hoch, noted, that for the quarter, the Company achieved:

• A Quarterly Record 16.2 million transactions processed via all payment channels
• In its ACH business, record Electronic Check Transactions, Check Dollars and Returned Checks processed as well as record PINless Debit transactions and dollars processed
• In its Credit Card business, record transactions
  

Mr. Hoch, commenting on the quarter, said, “I am extremely pleased with this strong third growth, reflecting the underlying value of our diversified market strategy, and delivering on our third quarter commitment to our shareholders. This is the great start to what we believe will be a strong second half of this fiscal year. For the quarter, we achieved strong sequential growth in operating metrics across all operating divisions, including seven all-time quarterly records. 

“Performance in our ACH division was particularly impressive with quarterly records across all of our processing and transaction metrics. In addition, our PINless debit offering also set all-time records for both transactions processed and dollars processed with year-over year growth of 96% and 87%, respectively, for transactions and dollars processed.  Both metrics were driven by growth in the mortgage servicing and fintech industries. Strong performance across these performance metrics reflects increasing market interest in our various products and solutions, the ongoing success of our Usio One strategy, and the dedication of our team to improving the value of our franchise."

Third Quarter 2025 Processing Results

An all-time quarterly record was achieved in transactions processed, led by continued focus on the PayFac business, while dollars processed were the second highest in Company history.

Card Issuing continues to generate sequential volume growth with total dollar loads exceeding $75 million in the third quarter, although down from the same year ago quarter.

Both electronic check transaction volume and returned check transactions processed in the quarter were all-time records. All of the Company’s ACH products recorded strong sequential and year-over year growth with electronic check transaction volume and dollars processed in the third quarter recording their eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Electronic only documents delivered were 20 million in the quarter while total mail pieces processed and delivered exceeded 5.4 million.

About Usio, Inc.
Usio, Inc. (Nasdaq: USIO), a leading, cloud-based, integrated FinTech electronic payment solutions provider, offers a wide range of payment solutions to merchants, billers, banks, service bureaus, integrated software vendors and card issuers. The Company operates credit, debit/prepaid, and ACH payment processing platforms to deliver convenient, world-class payment solutions and services clients through its unique payment facilitation platform as a service. The company, through its Usio Output Solutions division, offers services relating to electronic bill presentment, document composition, document decomposition and printing and mailing services. The strength of the Company lies in its ability to provide tailored solutions for card issuance, payment acceptance, and bill payments as well as its unique technology in the card issuing sector. Usio is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and has offices in Austin, Texas.

Websites: www.usio.com  and www.akimbocard.com. 
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paul.manley@usio.com
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