What Digital Transactions does

Digital Transactions is a B2B media publishing company serving the electronic payments industry, founded in 2003 and operated as Boland Hill Media, LLC from Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The company produces a monthly print and digital magazine, a daily business-day email newsletter, and operates digitaltransactions.net as a 24/7 online news portal covering acquiring, processing, issuing, fraud/security, regulation, and emerging payment technologies. The portfolio is augmented by on-demand webinars (hosted via Webcasts.com), a searchable Buyer's Guide directory of payments vendors across 50+ topic categories, and an industry events calendar.

The business is led by two publishing veterans — Publisher Robert A. Jenisch and Editor-in-Chief John D. Stewart — who collectively bring 40 years of professional publishing experience from prior senior roles at Thomson Media and Faulkner & Gray covering credit cards, card technology, and banking publications. The company targets payments professionals at merchant acquirers, processors, financial institutions, ISOs, and ISVs, with content distributed globally via the website, email newsletter, print/digital magazine, social channels (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), and industry event sponsorship.

Revenue is generated through advertising sales (advertisers contact the publisher directly for the annual media kit) and recurring subscriptions to the magazine and daily newsletter, with billing on an annual cadence. The company operates with a lean team of 1-10 employees and is privately held with no disclosed institutional investment, external funding, or acquisition activity.

Name

Digital Transactions

Legal name

Boland Hill Media, LLC

Website

https://digitaltransactions.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Digital Transactions is a B2B media publisher serving payments industry professionals through a monthly magazine, daily newsletter, news website, webinars, and vendor Buyer's Guide directory, targeting acquirers, processors, FIs, ISOs, and ISVs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Glen Ellyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Magazine Subscription: Digital Transactions publishes a monthly print and digital magazine covering the payments industry. The magazine provides in-depth analysis, feature articles, and industry commentary for subscribers.
2. Daily Newsletter: Digital Transactions News is published every business day via email, delivering breaking news and industry briefs to subscribers.
3. Advertising Revenue: The company sells advertising across its magazine, daily newsletter, and website. The 2026 media kit outlines advertising opportunities and reach metrics. Publisher Bob Jenisch handles advertising inquiries.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Digital Transactions is a B2B media publisher that delivers authoritative news, analysis, and insights to payments industry professionals through a monthly print and digital magazine, a daily email newsletter, and a continuously updated news website. Its coverage spans merchant acquiring, payment processing, card issuing, fintech, fraud/security, regulation, and emerging payment technologies, supplemented by on-demand webinars, a searchable Buyer's Guide directory, and an industry events calendar.

Product overview

Digital Transactions operates a multi-platform publishing business serving payments professionals through three interconnected core products: the monthly Digital Transactions Magazine (print and digital), the daily Digital Transactions News email newsletter, and the DigitalTransactions.net website (24/7 online news portal). The portfolio is augmented by on-demand Webinars featuring industry experts on compliance and technology topics, a searchable Buyer's Guide directory of payment vendors, and an Events Calendar listing industry conferences. The company is published by Boland Hill Media LLC, a Chicago-based multi-media publisher founded in 2003 serving markets undergoing technology transformation in payments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• PYMNTS: PYMNTS is a B2B media outlet covering the payments and commerce ecosystem with daily news, research, and proprietary indexes. It directly competes with Digital Transactions for the same payments-professional audience and advertiser base, but operates at significantly larger scale with a free-access model.
• Payments Dive: Payments Dive is a trade publication under Industry Dive covering payments industry news for professionals at merchants, processors, and financial institutions. It targets the same reader persona as Digital Transactions and competes for similar advertiser budgets.
• The Nilson Report: The Nilson Report is a long-running subscription-based newsletter covering the global card and payments industry with proprietary data and rankings. It is comparable to Digital Transactions in its subscription-driven B2B payments coverage model and niche professional audience.
• PaymentsJournal: PaymentsJournal is a payments industry publication producing news, insights, and educational content for payments professionals, with sponsorship from major payments technology vendors. It competes for the same reader attention and advertiser relationships as Digital Transactions.
• Finextra: Finextra is a global financial services technology news site covering banking, payments, and fintech. It overlaps with Digital Transactions on the payments/fintech beat and competes for advertiser and contributor mindshare in the payments professional community.

Broad incumbents

• American Banker: American Banker is an established financial services trade publication covering banking, payments, and regulation with a much broader scope than Digital Transactions. It overlaps on payments and fintech coverage and competes for subscription and advertising dollars from banks and processors.

Emerging players

• Tearsheet: Tearsheet is a financial services media brand covering fintech, banking, and wealth management with research and events. It overlaps with Digital Transactions in the payments-adjacent fintech coverage area and targets a similar professional audience.
• Bank Automation News: Bank Automation News covers technology and automation trends in banking and payments, including AI, core modernization, and fraud. It targets an overlapping professional audience with Digital Transactions, particularly at financial institutions and processors.
• Banking Dive: Banking Dive is an Industry Dive publication covering banking technology and operations news. It overlaps with Digital Transactions on topics at the intersection of banking and payments infrastructure, competing for time and attention from the same FI professional audience.

Regional players

• The Paypers: The Paypers is a European-headquartered payments industry news and research publication covering online payments, fintech, and digital commerce. It covers a comparable subject matter to Digital Transactions but is primarily focused on the European market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/dtpaymentnews
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/digital-transactions

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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