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Clover, Fiserv Inc.’s point-of-sale platform, has launched Clover Hospitality by BentoBox, a customized point-of-sale system for high-end restaurants. Clover Hospitality enables restaurants to build an online presence to engage with consumers through Web sites and enable online ordering and reservations. It also includes marketing tools designed to increase customer loyalty …
May, 2025
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19 May
A ThreatMark Tool Gives Consumers a Role in Identifying Scams
As scams and fraud continue to wreak havoc on consumers and financial services companies, one fraud-prevention firm has released a service it says will help consumers better self-identify potential deceptive payment decisions. ThreatMark released ScamFlag, a service banks can add to their mobile-banking apps to help give consumers more insight …
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19 May
Authvia’s Sinch Relationship and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/19/25
Authvia, a platform for conversational commerce and payment by text, will work with Sinch, developer of cloud-based customer communications, to allow businesses to offer mobile-payments capability within messaging platforms such as SMS and WhatsApp. Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it is expanding its processing capabilities in the travel industry through an alliance …
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16 May
Global Payments Launches Its Genius Platform
Global Payments Inc. has rolled out its long-awaited Genius point-of-sale package of products and services. Touted by Global Payments as a “POS command center for business operations,” Genius is a major step in the Atlanta-based company’s quest to unify all of the its POS products into a single, configurable POS …
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16 May
How Barry McCarthy Is Steering Deluxe Into Digital Payments
At the helm of Deluxe Corp. since 2018, Barry McCarthy is seeing a payoff from the company’s shift from paper-based to electronic payments. Minneapolis-based Deluxe, which posted $2.1 billion in 2024 revenue, has seen its percentage of overall revenue attributed to its payments services, which includes merchant services and business-to-business …
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16 May
CFPB Revises Wise Penalties and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/16/25
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has revised a January order for remittance provider Wise that reduces its $450,000 penalty and $2.025 million fine to $45,000 and to redress the harm to consumers. On Jan. 30, the CFPB, under Rohit Chopra who was fired in February, had ordered the previous penalties to resolve claims alleging …
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15 May
Zoho Launches Zoho Payments In the U.S. Market
Zoho Corp., an Indian multinational software company, is launching Zoho Payments in the United States. Zoho Payments is an embedded-payments solution that enables businesses to collect one-time and recurring payments from customers, online and within Zoho apps. Billed by Zoho as an out-of-the box payment solution, Zoho Payments supports the …
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15 May
Mastercard Looks to Support Stablecoins in a Deal With Wallet Provider MoonPay
The big card networks have worked for several years to exploit the growing business of transactions based on cryptocurrency, and the latest development emerged early Thursday with an announcement that Mastercard Inc. is looking to enable acceptance of stablecoin-backed cards at the more than 150 million merchants worldwide that accept …
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15 May
77% Tire of Drive-Thru Wait and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/15/25
SoundHound AI Inc. said of the 94% of U.S. consumers who use voice assistants while driving or have voice assistants available 77% would rather place their orders using an in-car voice assistant rather than wait in a traditional drive-thru lane. The survey, conducted by research firm Big Village, included responses from …
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14 May
AI Engine Perplexity Adds PayPal to Its Commerce Suite
Artificial intelligence engine Perplexity.AI will soon enable PayPal and Venmo payments for products, travel, and tickets that are found via its tool. Announced Wednesday by PayPal Holding Inc., the service will be enabled this summer for U.S. subscribers to Perplexity Pro, which is $20 per month. This is the second …
