Digital Transactions Authoritative, insightful and timely information for payments professionals
Empower Your Business with Seamless Transactions In today’s digital ecosystem, software companies have a wide range of options to create unique payment experience for consumers. Recently, payment facilitation has been an increasingly popular choice for business owners when it comes to accepting payments. Instead of each business needing to establish …
November, 2024
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15 November
Online Shoppers Love-Hate Relationship with Generative AI; Sift Releases New Fraud Benchmarking Metrics for E-Commerce
Despite 71% of online shoppers being unaware they are interacting with generative artificial intelligence, about half say they see value in the technology when it comes to personalizing the online shopping experience and would be willing to share personal data to receive a more customized shopping experience, says a recent …
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15 November
Discover Grows Its International Presence Through a Pair-Up With Telered in Panama
Discover Global Network continues to expand its international business through a deal with Panamanian payment processor Telered S.A. Telered manages the Sistema Clave, or Clave System, which Discover says is the largest interbank network of ATMs and points of sale in Panama. In business for more than 30 years, Clave’s …
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14 November
Elevating the consumer payment experience – Setting the stage for merchant growth
Steven Velasquez, Senior Vice President and Head of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon With retail sales predictions clocking in at $1.59 trillion for this year’s holiday season[i], it’s a good time to reflect on how you can support and help your merchants meet this demand while maximizing …
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14 November
Mastercard Plans to Tokenize All Online Transactions by 2030
Mastercard Inc. unveiled plans late Wednesday to tokenize card numbers for all online transactions globally by 2030. The move will make the need for physical card numbers, passwords, and one-time codes for online purchases obsolete, the network says. Tokenization masks in-the-clear card numbers with digits that would be indecipherable to …
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14 November
PayPal Dives into Shared Funding Efforts
PayPal Holdings Inc. is hoping to enable the power of community with a new funding service that enables multiple individuals to contribute to one account. Dubbed a “pool” by PayPal, the service means contributors can chip in to pay for group gifts, travel, special events, and other shared expenses. Announced …
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14 November
Blackhawk Debuts eGift Card Links and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/14/24
Prepaid card platform Blackhawk Network launched eGift Card Links, which allows brands to let customers paste a link into an email, text, or social-messaging app. Recipients access the e-gift card by opening the link and can redeem it immediately. Judopay, a United Kingdom-based mobile-payments platform, said it is entering the North American …
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13 November
Level the card-fee playing field with dual pricing
Paying with a card is very popular with consumers. They love the convenience and security of not carrying cash. For merchants, however, these payments come with a price: Processing fees. Getting paid with plastic often means merchants have to pass that expense on to their consumers. Even with low-rate accounts, …
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13 November
GrabScanGo And MagTek Bring App Clip Technology to Hotel Mini Markets
GSG AveriGo LLC, a provider of self-service checkout technology at the point of sale, is working with GSG AveriGo LLC, a provider of self-service checkout technology at the point of sale, is working with MagTek Inc. to provide an App Clip through its GrabScanGo, service that enables consumers to purchase …
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13 November
Paysafe Beefs up Its Sales Force As It Looks for Merchant Growth
Since he took over as chief executive in 2022, Paysafe Ltd.’s Bruce Lowthers has stressed what he sees as a crucial need for stronger, and direct, merchant sales to effect the turnaround he wanted to see at the international processing giant. Early Wednesday, he noted the company is ahead of …
