• Fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A Inc. says it will begin accepting Apple Pay and Android Pay Friday at the point of sale inside its stores and in drive-through lanes. Chick-fil-A announced in February it would accept Apple Pay along with its own Quick Response bar code-based mobile-payment service. • Wal-Mart …
Read More »Wargaming Uses RedD Shield and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• KeyBank announced it is supporting the Masterpass digital wallet from MasterCard Inc., which recently revamped Masterpass to stress in-store payments. • Wargaming, an online-games producer, has deployed the ReD Shield anti-fraud system from ACI Worldwide throughout Europe and now plans to deploy it globally. • WesBanco Bank Inc. will instantly issue …
Read More »UnionPay’s QuickPass Mobile-Payments Service Makes Its North American Debut in Canada
By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews UnionPay International’s QuickPass mobile-payments service made its North American debut with acceptance initiated in Canada, the company, a unit of China UnionPay, announced Tuesday. Consumers can use their UnionPay QuickPass cards, equipped with a contactless chip, or a card loaded into a mobile wallet, at contactless payment …
Read More »JetPay Reports 2Q Results and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Prepaid card program manager Green Dot Corp. has expanded its Instant Pay disbursement program with on-demand car-hailing service Uber to enable real-time payment of driver pay to almost any Discover, MasterCard, or Visa debit card, using MasterCard Inc.’s MasterCard Send service. Up to now, Instant Pay driver disbursements were …
Read More »With 30% of POS Terminals Still on Dial-Up, TNS Debuts Dial-Up Backup Service
By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Acquirers that service merchants that still use dial-up point-of-sale terminals have a new option for connecting these no-longer-mainstream devices to processors with the launch of a new product from Transaction Network Services Inc. Announced Tuesday, the service from Reston, Va.-based TNS provides acquirers with one connection to …
Read More »Eye on Security: Malware Planted in HEI Hotels and Micros POS Systems
By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews HEI Hotels & Resorts disclosed Friday that malware on point-of-sale systems may have captured payment card information at restaurants and other locations within 20 of its properties. At the same time, the payments industry is watching for clues about the extent of a compromise at Oracle Corp.’s …
Read More »Revel Systems Expands QuickBooks Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Mobile point-of-sale service provider Cardflight announced that processor BluePay Processing LLC is now offering the Cardflight SwipeSimple service to merchants. • Revel Systems, provider of iPad-based point-of-sale technology, and Intuit Inc. expanded an existing partnership to bring Intuit QuickBooks Point of Sale services to salon and grocery retailers. The …
Read More »Intuit And Revel Systems Ride Their mPOS Partnership Into Salons And Grocery Stores
By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews When Intuit Inc. launched QuickBooks Point of Sale with tablet-payments specialist Smoothie King Franchises Inc., a chain of 700 juice outlets, to install Revel tablets chainwide in what at the time was the largest such deal on record. Earlier this month, news emerged that IBM Corp. …
Read More »A New Report Fires an Opening Salvo in Effort to Bring Durbin Cap to Credit Card Fees
By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews The debate over the price merchants pay to accept credit cards may be about to intensify. A new report suggests that capping credit card interchange at 22 cents plus 30.5 basis points per transaction could cut $15 billion from the current total of $33 billion U.S. merchants …
Read More »Next-Generation Payments Tech Evaluated and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• A variety of financial-services firms, including MasterCard Inc., SWIFT, and Visa Inc., participated in a 130-page report released Friday by the World Economic Forum that concludes “distributed-ledger technology will form the foundation of next-generation financial services infrastructure in conjunction with other existing and emerging technologies.” • M&T Bank announced …
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