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Chargebacks are always an issue for merchants. While there are numerous programs and indicators to identify fraudulent ones, detecting and managing first-party fraud—that committed by legitimate customers—can be tougher to root out. In response, Mastercard Inc. is pushing its First Party Trust Program, an artificial intelligence-based service that enables merchants …

Galileo Financial Technologies said it expanded its buy now, pay later platform to enable banks and fintechs to offer new installment plans post-purchase through the consumer’s existing debit or credit card. North American Bancard launched Payment Links on its platform. These are links merchants can adopt to direct customers to a payments …

Montreal-based Nuvei Corp. early Monday issued a statement confirming it has received interest from potential investors and has created a “special committee” of independent directors to review “expressions of interest” regarding offers to take the company private, as well as other “strategic alternatives.” Private-equity firm Advent International Corp. is making …

FIS Inc. said its SecurLock service, working with artificial-intelligence technology from the fintech Stratyfy, is set to increase the volume of card transactions accurately identified as fraudulent, allowing clients to stop the transactions before they are consummated. FIS said the technology “was able to deliver a significant improvement of accurately identified …

McDonald’s Corp. on Sunday showed signs it had largely recovered from a widespread system outage that began early Friday and shut down service, prevented card payments, and scrambled digital orders for hours at thousands of restaurants around the world. Now, the company is seeking the cause and promising to hold …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its proposed rule on mobile wallets back in November, and comments on it closed Jan. 8, but that doesn’t mean the proposal isn’t still stirring up discussion as lawmakers, payments experts, and technology firms wrestle with its implications. The rule, which would define so-called …

Digital wallets such as PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, and Google Pay are ubiquitous components of everyday financial activity for millions of people. With users increasingly using and maintaining cash balances on digital wallets, they are starting to demand 24/7 access to their money. They also expect faster and more visible …

The Federal Reserve launched a user group for the 607 financial institutions that have signed on so far to participate in FedNow, the real-time payments network the regulator launched last summer with 35 participants, a count that had reached 400 by January. All live financial institutions and certified service providers are eligible …

DoorDash Inc. has added 13 grocery-store chains to its platform that will accept electronic benefits transfer and SNAP cards for payment. The list of grocers—which includes, ACME Markets, Food City, Hy-Vee, Jewel-Osco, Kings Food Markets, Pavilions, Randalls, Shaw’s, Sprouts Farmers Market, Star Market, Stater Bros. Markets, Tom Thumb, and Vons—comprises …

With the proliferation of smart phones, mobile wallets have been specializing in recent years as businesses find ways to work them into their payments stream and consumers find the devices impossible to leave behind. Now, mobile payments are coming to the world of electronic games in bars and restaurants. TouchTunes …

Processor Elavon, a unit of U.S. Bank, said it will provide a payments platform to BMO. In addition to payment services for credit, debit, and digital payment transactions, Elavon’s services to the bank include customized merchant processing services, omnichannel acceptance, fraud management, and dynamic and multi-currency conversion. Processor Stripe Inc. added support for Apple …

Zumigo Inc., a provider of mobile-identity authentication technology, says it has enhanced its DeRiskify fraud-prevention product for e-commerce merchants by enabling sellers to authenticate customers without a password requirement when customers log into their account. Eliminating the need for passwords in the customer-verification process pleases customers, which in turn can …

As online shopping continues to stitch itself into consumer behavior, efforts to reduce chargebacks also advance. The latest is Riskified’s Auth Rate Enhance service that can pre-screen orders and provide more information for its customers to make a go-no-go decision on digital orders. Auth Rate Enhance, a component of Riskified’s …

Payment card technology provider CPI Card Group Inc. said it will provide its push-provisioning platform to customers of MEA Financial Enterprises LLC, a financial-services software provider. The CPI technology will allow cardholders to “push” their card credentials into digital wallets through a mobile-banking app. Canadian payments-technology provider VoPay International Inc. said it will expand …

By Steven Velasquez Head and Senior Vice President of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon In recent years, there’s been a notable transformation in the key players shaping the payments ecosystem. Established models of acquiring banks are facing competition from emerging fintech and software companies eager to capture …

Payments-technology provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. posted record revenue of $755.6 million in 2023, up 13.9% from the previous year. The year was capped off by a record fourth quarter, during which Priority posted revenues of $199.3 million, a 12.2% increase from the same period a year earlier. In both …

Mastercard Inc. released Smart Subscriptions, a service to help issuers provide subscription-management tools to their cardholders. In related news, Recurly Inc., a subscription-services provider, released its consumer software subscription benchmark report. The Smart Subscriptions service builds on Mastercard’s Subscriptions Control product, released in 2023, to provide spend analysis, a way …

The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s automated clearing house network, EPN, reported volume of more than 19 billion transactions for 2023, up 8%, with a total value of $52.4 trillion. Taulia, which provides technology to manage working capital, said it will incorporate into its Taulia Virtual Cards digital payments technology from Visa …

SheerID Inc., a provider of identity-verification technology, and software developer Payment Plugins are collaborating to provide a consumer identity-verification solution for e-commerce platform provider WooCommerce. The deal will seek to enable WooCommerce merchants to reduce fraud by ensuring gated offers and discounts are being used by customers who are the …

The restaurant and related hospitality market has attracted plenty of attention the past few years from payment platforms, rendering the market one of the hottest in the field of digital payments and marketing. And the trend shows no signs of cooling off, as processors and related service providers look to …