News

November, 2024

• 27 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, …
• 27 November

  The U.S. Is Number One…in Breached Card Details

  

  A new report from Surfshark, a provider of virtual private network services, finds that the United States far outpaces the top nine other major economies when it comes to the rate of breached payment card details. Based on 5.7 million payment card data points that have been compromised since 2004, …
• 27 November

  Illinois’s Interchange Law Will Distort Card Payment Economics, a Report Says

  

  If the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act survives the legal challenges it faces, the law would “create significant market distortions,” says a recent report from the International Center for Law & Economics, a Portland, Ore.-based nonprofit research and policy center. Some of the most significant impacts on the market, according …
• 27 November

  Flexa’s Crypto Plans and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/27/24

  

  Digital-payments platform Flexa is working with Electric Coin Co., to integrate Flexa technology into Electric Coin’s Zcash wallet in an effort to ease the use of digital currencies at U.S. retail locations that use Flexa technology. Licel Corp. said its Virtual Trusted Execution Environment (vTEE) has been approved by the standards body EMVCo …
• 26 November

  Overhaul Your Payment Processing with Payarc’s PAYFAC Platform

  

  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 …
• 26 November

  Eye on Point of Sale: PushX Hospitality Debuts; SurgePays Completes PAX Integration

  

  Hospitality platform provider PushX Inc. will launch its new mobile-payments and offers platform with a bar crawl it says is designed to showcase the customer experience, how merchants can push offers, and how it could enable faster service. Chicago-based PushX says the hospitality platform, announced Tuesday, can help consumers discover …
• 26 November

  Has the CCCA Reached the End of the Road?

  

  With the odds against the Credit Card Competition Act coming to a vote before the current Congress adjourns growing by the day, the bill’s future appears bleak. Prospects that the bill might advance received a major blow last week as Sen. Thom Tillis said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing …
• 26 November

  Discover’s Next Merger Steps and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/26/24

  

  Discover Financial Services said it will file restatements of “certain prior period financial statements” and will “as soon as practicable” after that conduct a special stockholder meeting to vote on the company’s proposed merger with Capital One Corp. The proposed merger was announced early this year. Vault, a Canada-based financial platform, has initiated …
• 25 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 …
• 25 November

  Holiday Shoppers Are Expected to Spend More This Year As the Season Gets Set To Kick Off

  

  Consumers will spend a record $650 per person during Black Friday-Cyber Monday shopping events, a 15% increase from last year, according to a study from Deloitte. During the Black Friday-Cyber Monday period, 56% of consumers say they plan to spend more than half their holiday shopping budgets, compared to 47% …