Tuesday , November 12, 2024

Digital Transactions News staff

NAB’s Visa Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/4/24

Payments provider North American Bancard LLC said it has integrated its merchant processing platform with Visa Inc.’s Visa Acceptance Platform, allowing it to offer merchants access to Visa properties such as Cybersource, a fraud-detection platform. The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC said first-quarter volume on its RTP real-time payments network set a quarterly …

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Lightspeed Makes Layoffs and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/3/24

Canada-based payments processor Lightspeed Commerce Inc. announced it will reduce its headcount by roughly 10%, or 280 jobs, and make other spending cuts in operations and facilities, in a cost-cutting initiative it expects to complete by the end of June. The company has not had a profitable year since going public in …

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PayPal, Venmo Activate Visa+ and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/2/24

Visa Inc. announced PayPal and Venmo have activated Visa+, its interoperable peer-to-peer payments service that enables users in one P2P service to make a payment to another person using another network. Fintech Current and The Western Union Co. are expected to enable Visa+ next, Visa said. The service’s B2C payout capability has …

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AirAsia and Trip.com in Payments Collab and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/1/24

Travel platform Trip.com Group said it will work with Capital A Berhad, parent of the airline AirAsia, to support ticketing, payments, and other functions. Visa Inc. has been announced as a founding partner of Bay FC, a new Bay Area women’s professional soccer franchise in the National Women’s Soccer League. Dime Community Bancshares launched …

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Ant’s Deal With Air Asia and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/29/24

The big digital-payments platform Ant International said it will support local payment methods and payment orchestration for Capital A Berhad, owner of AirAsia. Tink, a payments provider acquired by Visa Inc. in 2022, has agreed to provide pay-by-bank payout options in Europe for checkout platform Payop. Adyen NV will process online and offline …

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Discover CEO Leaving and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/28/24

Michael Rhodes has resigned as chief executive and president of Discover Financial Services Inc., effective April 1. Rhodes was “not expected to have a long-term role at the combined company after completion of the Company’s merger with Capital One Financial Corporation,” Discover said in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and …

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Visa’s AI-Powered Trio and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/27/24

Visa Inc. announced three technologies leveraging artificial intelligence and aimed at controlling fraud risk, including Visa Deep Authorization, real-time account-to-account payment protection, and extension of Visa Advanced Authorization and Visa Risk Manager to non-Visa card transactions. The services are expected to launch by mid-year. Cantaloupe Inc., a specialist in payments for …

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Breeze Taps Barclays and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/26/24

Breeze Airways unveiled a credit card cobranded with Barclays US Consumer Bank. The card offers triple points on purchases of airfare and other items, including in-flight items. The Brussels-based financial-messaging body Swift said early testing of its early-stage central bank digital currency shows financial institutions can process a variety of transactions through CBDCs …

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X Gets More State OKs and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/25/24

X Payments LLC, the payments platform for the social-media network X (formerly Twitter), received money-transmitter licenses last week from New Mexico, Oregon, and Illinois, bringing to 22 the number of states that have approved the platform for money movement. Fleetcor Technologies Inc., a business-payments provider, said it has now renamed …

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ParkHub and JustPark Combo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/22/24

Parking management and payment providers ParkHub said it will merge with JustPark, a United Kingdom-based parking reservations and payments platform. Dallas-based ParkHub said the new organization serves more than 20 million drivers and more than 500 business-to-business clients representing more than $1 billion in booking volume. Terms were not disclosed. Payments provider North …

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