The 25 biggest U.S. merchant acquirers control about 90% of payment dollar volume, even as e-commerce may be losing some of its recent momentum, according to the latest ranking of U.S. merchant acquirers by The Strawhecker Group, released this week. Overall, U.S. acquirers processed more than $9 trillion in payment …
Read More »Losses From Stolen Identities Skyrocketed 79% to $24 Billion in 2021, a Javelin Study Finds
Payments providers are increasingly resuming business-as-usual as the pandemic eases, but so are criminals. Losses from identity-fraud schemes, in which fraudsters use stolen payment credentials for their own gain, soared 79% last year to $24 billion, according to a study released Tuesday by Javelin Strategy & Research. Moreover, this so-called …
Read More »Eye on Security: Panini Meets FBI Standards, And VGS Gets Set to Launch Card Tokens
Panini S.p.A., which has been expanding beyond its base in devices for image processing, said early Tuesday the Federal Bureau of Investigation has certified its fingerprint-authentication technology, called BioCred. The scanning technology meets image-quality specifications set by the FBI’s Appendix F standard, said to be the law-enforcement agency’s highest standard …
Read More »Eye on the Sky: CellPoint Signs Virgin Atlantic, And Garmin Unveils a New Smart Watch
The return of travel following the impact of the pandemic is testing airlines in various ways, not the least of which is their openness to payment methods beyond cards in what for them is a global market. That new emphasis, combined with a need to work with multiple acquirers, is …
Read More »As Regulators Examine BNPL, A Payments Industry Group Advises Caution
With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigating the impact of buy now, pay later programs on consumers, the Electronic Transactions Association early Friday released a letter it hopes will help clarify the issues and help allay the regulator’s concerns about key issues such as debt accumulation, regulatory arbitrage, and data …
Read More »Mastercard Announces Account-to-Account Payment Tools Based on Open-Banking Assets
Mastercard Inc. early Wednesday said it will launch two new payments tools that rely on the card network’s rapidly growing stake in open banking and account-to-account transactions. The new digital tools, which Mastercard says will not be available until later this year, are expected to address risk and uncertainty in …
Read More »Fast-Growing BNPL Will Capture ‘Additional Share,’ Including Offline Spend, An Analyst Says
The buy now, pay later concept is nothing new, but it took on momentum during the pandemic and may now undergo unstoppable growth in the next few years, according to RBC equity analyst Dan Perlin, who analyzed data on BNPL contained in the 2022 Global Payments Report recently released by …
Read More »The Big Global Processor Worldline Reports a Small Revenue Exposure in Russia
The world’s biggest card networks earlier this month reacted to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by closing their operations in Russia, and now some of the world’s biggest processors are beginning to report their exposure to those markets. For Paris-based Worldline S.A., it’s not trivial, but it’s not huge, either. …
Read More »A $1-Million Same-Day Cap Takes Effect As the ACH’s Latest Move in the Faster Payments Derby
A new, $1-million limit takes effect on Friday for same-day processing of automated clearing house transactions. The new cap, 10 times higher than the former one, is expected to open the ACH for faster processing of more large-value transfers and is seen as a landmark move toward faster payments as …
Read More »Priority Racks up Revenue Gains As It Looks to Expand Into New Services Such As Cash Processing
Priority Technology Holdings LLC late on Wednesday reported $144 million in revenue for 2021’s December quarter and $514.9 million for the full year, increases of 35.7% and 27.4% year-over-year, respectively. The Alpharetta, Ga.-based company, which ranks among the 25 largest merchant processors in the country, handles payments and related services …
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