Friday , November 22, 2024

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Contactless Payments To Surge And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/25/23

The number of digital transactions globally will rise 12% in 2024 to cross the 1-trillion mark, Juniper Research forecasts. Near-field communication (NFC) payments, otherwise known as tap-and-pay, will grow fastest, at 30%, followed by digital ticketing (19%), according to Juniper. The Canada-based commerce platform Shopify will enable payments for India-based e-commerce merchants directly on …

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Varo to Anyone P2P Payments Debuts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/22/23

Varo Bank entered the peer-to-peer payments fray with Varo to Anyone, which allows Varo accountholders to send funds to anyone who holds a U.S. debit card. Varo says the service carries no fee. Mitek Systems Inc. announced it has agreed to offer its biometric-based identity verification technology to complement the credit-reporting agency Equifax Inc.’s …

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IPS Advances IPSIPay Funding And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/21/23

Innovative Payment Solutions Inc. announced it has completed the second of three $500,000 capital contributions to IPSIPay Express LLC, a joint venture aimed at processing digital payments in the sports-betting and online-gaming markets. Partnering with IPSI in the venture are OpenPath and eFinityPay. Reports indicate a security breach at T-Mobile exposed sensitive data, …

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Freedom Pay Links With Worldpay And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/20/23

The payments platform FreedomPay said it is expanding its partnership with the processor Worldpay to cover more geographic markets globally. FIS Inc. in July agreed to sell a 55% interest in Worldpay to the private-equity firm GTCR in a deal expected to close in 2024’s first quarter. Buy now, pay later specialist Sezzle Inc. announced an …

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ACI’s Real-Time Microsoft Deal And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/19/23

ACI Worldwide Inc. said it will work with Microsoft Corp. to make its Real-Time Payments Cloud available in Microsoft Azure, enabling financial institutions access to The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s Real Time Payments network and the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments service. Treasury Prime, an embedded-banking technology provider, said it …

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Wise’s Cross-Border Hopes And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/18/23

Wise Transfer Ltd., a developer of software for cross-border transfers, announced its Wise Platform will complete transactions initiated through the Swift international payments platform at the option of financial institutions. In related news, IBM Corp. announced its IBM Payments Center, a software-development unit, has joined the Swift Partner Program, gaining access to …

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An ARC Pay API for Air Travel And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/15/23

Airlines Reporting Corp. announced it has started processing payments through its ARC Pay application programming interface for the online travel agency Business Travel Group LLC’s Business Class brand. The Western Union Co. announced it will offer free money transfers for funds consumers around the world send to Libya in the wake of severe …

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FreedomPay’s Cross-Border Platform And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/14/23

Commerce platform FreedomPay said it will begin offering point-of-sale devices from Pax Technology Inc. in the second quarter next year. Visa Inc. announced it will deploy its real-time payments network, Visa Direct, to allow users of United Kingdom-based money-transmission platform Paysend to route payments to eligible Visa cards in 170 countries and territories. …

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Fitli Taps Usio And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/13/23

Fitli, an independent software provider for fitness professionals, has selected Usio Inc. for payments processing. Prepaid card specialist Blackhawk Network has agreed to launch “Gift Card Malls” inside airport and casino shops operated by WH Smith North America. Three unnamed central banks are testing a method from international money-transfer platform Swift to enable interoperability …

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PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance Concerns And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/12/23

Some 90% of businesses are “concerned” about whether they will be able to meet a March 2025 deadline for compliance with PCI DSS 4.0, a newly updated payments-security standard, according to a survey from payments-security firm Bluefin and S&P Global Market Intelligence. The survey was conducted during the second quarter and included …

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