• Starbucks Corp. says mobile payment represented 24% of total U.S. tender in fiscal 2016’s second quarter, and the coffee company’s Mobile Order & Pay service accounted for 4% of total transactions, or about 8 million per month, up 40% from the first quarter. • Citing a “large increase” in fraudulent …
Read More »PowaPOS Sold and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• SuperCom Ltd., an Israel-based identity-verification company, bought PowaPOS, the tablet-based point-of-sale unit of Powa Technologies Ltd., a commerce company that floundered. Powa’s two other units, PowaWeb and PowaTag, already have been sold. • American Express Co. reported $176.3 billion in U.S. card-billed business during the first quarter, up 4% from a …
Read More »MPC Disputes Durbin Findings and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• The Merchants Payments Coalition, a lobbying group for merchants on payment issues, attacked a Harvard University research paper as “just plain wrong” after the paper argued the debit-interchange caps in the Durbin Amendment to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act drove up banking costs for consumers. • Terminal maker Ingenico Group …
Read More »NAB Introduces Inovio Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Merchant processor North American Bancard Holdings introduced its Inovio Payment gateway service; NAB says Inovio’s name is taken from the word “innovation” and that the service, which includes a virtual point of sale and hosted checkout solutions, will open new markets for the company. • Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has changed …
Read More »ACH Alert Thwarts $615 Million in Fraud and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Fidelity National Information Services Inc. and The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC announced they will launch a pilot for real-time payments in the first quarter of next year. The system will focus initially on bill payments and will use FIS technology along with The Clearing House’s real-time payment platform. …
Read More »Mobeewave P2P Service Leaves Test Phase and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Canada-based Mobeewave is making its PayMeTap mobile peer-to-peer app available to consumers across Canada. The free app had been in testing. The Android app enables consumers to accept a payment by tapping a phone with a contactless credit card. • Payments company BillingTree Inc. launched the Payrazr Marketplace, …
Read More »Investors Take a Stake in an ISO and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Prepaid card and mobile-banking provider Green Dot Corp. named three new independent directors to its board and non-independent director Sam Altman stepped down as the company expanded its board from eight to 10 directors, all but one of them now independent. Green Dot shareholder Harvest Capital Strategies LLC, which …
Read More »Cachet Renews Ingo Money Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Prepaid card provider Green Dot Corp., under pressure from an activist investor to boost earnings, announced it would buy $50 million of its Class A common shares under an accelerated stock-repurchase plan. • Remote deposit capture and mobile-payments technology provider Cachet Financial Solutions Inc. will continue to provide …
Read More »Pivotal Payments Licenses Tango Platform and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• U.S. senators from Colorado, Washington, and Oregon, three states where recreational marijuana use is legal, asked the various federal bank and credit-union regulatory agencies to develop joint guidance for how financial institutions could serve legal cannabis businesses; marijuana use remains illegal under federal law, meaning that many marijuana merchants …
Read More »Square Nuances Customer Engagement Suite and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Merchant acquirer Global Payments Inc. reported net income of $69.1 million for fiscal 2016’s third quarter ended Feb. 29, up 10.4% from $62.6 million a year earlier. Revenues came in at $679.9 million, up 2.2%. Global Payments expects to complete its acquisition of Heartland Payment Systems Inc. this month. …
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