Monday , November 25, 2024

John Stewart

Starting as an editor on Bank Network News at Faulkner & Gray, John ultimately played a key role in starting, editing, and publishing many of F&G's flagship publications, including Credit Card Management, Card Technology, Card Marketing, and Collections & Credit Risk. Before co-founding Boland Hill Media, John was a group publisher at Thomson Media responsible for a $10 million division embracing magazines, newsletters, and Web sites.

Nuvei Adds Australia As It Expands in Asia-Pacific And Readies Paya for Overseas Duty

The major Canadian processor Nuvei Corp. on Sunday announced the next step in its international expansion with the news that it has begun operations in Australia to process e-commerce traffic. The move follows a trend as North American processors master overseas payment methods and look to compete with local providers. …

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A Looming Capitol Hill Meetup Triggers A Renewed Assault on Efforts to Cap Credit Card Costs

As industry lobbyists prepare to converge on Capitol Hill next week, payments interest groups are issuing salvos designed to move the argument over limits on credit card acceptance costs in their favor. One such advance move came Thursday with an email campaign launched by the Electronic Payments Coalition citing a …

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FIS’s Worldpay Joins With GoDaddy to Enable Multichannel Commerce for Small Sellers

The major processor FIS Inc. said early Wednesday it will work with Web registrar GoDaddy Inc. to offer processing to small and micro merchants for online and in-person transactions. The new service, called Commerce 360, will rely on FIS’s Worldpay processing unit and aims to help sellers reach customers through …

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Shift4 Looks to Close on a European Processor As It Enters 2023 With Momentum

If any doubt remains that payment processors are rebounding strongly from the pandemic and all the restrictions it brought with it, Shift4 Payments Inc. likely dispelled it with the final-quarter 2022 results it posted early Tuesday. And if there’s a cloud on its horizon, it’s the waiting time the company …

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Block Resets to Focus on Slowing Expenses And Speeding Profit Growth

Block Inc. has been a fast-growing payments machine over the years since its founding in 2009, and now the company is looking to slow down somewhat and focus more intently on profit growth, according to top executives. That move could start with personnel. “We plan on slowing our pace of …

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GoDaddy Launches Payable Domains to Add Utility to the 40-Year-Old Domain Name System

Ever since its 2021 acquisition of the payments-technology company Poynt Inc., the big Web registrar GoDaddy Inc. has been pressing steadily into a variety of payments markets. In its latest move, the company said early Thursday it will let businesses accept payments through a registered domain name. The new Payable …

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As FedNow Prepares for Launch, Bankers’ Banks Enlist Help for Real-Time Payments

With the launch of the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payment service expected by mid-year, payments players are lining up clients to take advantage of the service. The latest is Pidgin Inc., a startup payments platform specializing in supporting financial institutions. The Atlanta-based company early Tuesday announced that Community Bankers’ Bank …

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Is FTX in the Rear-View Mirror? Bitcoin Rebounds Sharply As Headwinds Persist

The leading digital currency Bitcoin hasn’t returned to the values it enjoyed early last year, but it appears to have rebounded from the beating it—and the cryptocurrency industry as a whole—took in the wake of the sudden collapse in November of the major trading platform FTX.com and the bankruptcy in …

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Zelle Sees Promising Growth in Small Business Payments As It Confronts Senators’ Scam Probe

Early Warning Services LLC, operator of the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network, is celebrating a year just passed in which both dollar volume and transactions processed rose at double-digit rates. But the company also has its eye on promising markets like small businesses and on countering charges from U.S. Senators about …

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Observers Split on Banking Groups’ Effort to Get the Fed to Extend Time for Debit Compliance

Industry opinions are mixed regarding a move by banking trade groups to plead for more time to act on a ruling issued in October by the Federal Reserve. The ruling orders all banks to comply by July 1 with an 11-year-old requirement that merchants have a choice of at least …

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