Apple Pay Wins Out Over Walmart Pay and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/18/18

Walmart shoppers who have access to Apple Pay and have a payment preference are twice as likely to use Apple Pay rather than Walmart Pay, but discounts and other deals could tip the scales back in Walmart’s favor, according to a study by Auriemma Consulting Group.
Payments provider Century Business Solutions announced new features for the Sage 100 enterprise resource planning application that enables emailing invoices that automatically update a customer account when a payment is received.
Silicon Valley Bank and First Data Corp. announced the five startups in the next class for the business-accelerator program Commerce.Innovated.
Thales reported in its “2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Retail Edition” that 75% of U.S. retailers experienced a data breach in the past, compared with 52% who said so in 2017.
PCI Pal, which provides payment-security services to contact centers and others accepting card-not-present transactions, named Darren Gill vice president of channels for North America. Gill previously worked at Genesys, a call-center company.
Barclays PLC’s Barclaycard Payment Solutions, which says it is the United Kingdom’s biggest payment processor and No. 2 in Europe, appointed Rob Cameron as chief executive and global head of payment solutions, effective Oct. 8. Cameron will join Barclays from JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he was president of Chase Merchant Services Canada and oversaw Chase’s acquisition of WePay in the United States.

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