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Loop, a mobile wallet that uses a case or fob to generate its own contactless field to communicate with many payment terminals, has launched for the latest iPhone models. The brainchild of payments veterans George Wallner, founder of point-of-sale terminal maker Hypercom Corp., now Equinox Payments LLC, and Will …
Read More »Capital One Buys Into Big Banks’ clearXchange P2P Payment Service
Card issuer and bank Capital One Financial Corp. has bought into the clearXchange person-to-person payment company, becoming the fourth owner. Founded in 2011, clearXchange was started by Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., with the idea of leveraging a consumer’s existing relationship …
Read More »Square Snags Seven Whole Foods Stores in Another Move Up Market, Updates Square Cash
Consumers shopping at seven Whole Foods Market locations in Austin, Texas, New York City, Florida, and the San Francisco Bay area now can use their Square Wallet apps to pay for merchandise inside the stores. Whole Foods and Square Inc. are installing Square Register-equipped iPads on Square Stands inside these …
Read More »ISOs Hone Their Tablet-based Point-of-Sale Products
Up Solutions, the cloud-based point-of-sale division of United Merchant Services Inc., has set its Up Tab restaurant POS system at zero cost for resellers, the company announced today. Separately, Harbortouch has updated its POS Sales Center iPad app with new functions. Comprising an Android-based tablet, stand, printer, card reader, and …
Read More »As EMV Comes to the U.S. Market, Canada’s NBS Buys Terminal Maker Equinox
Equinox Payments LLC has a new owner. In a bid to strengthen its hand in the market for EMV gear in the United States, NBS Payment Solutions Inc. announced late Thursday it bought the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based payment-terminal maker for an undisclosed amount from the private-equity investment firm Gores Group LLC. …
Read More »Paydiant Expects Another Big Retailer To Debut Its Mobile Payment App Soon
Another large retailer, with as many as 100,000 locations, will begin using a mobile payments app developed by Paydiant Inc. within the next few weeks, Jed Rice, senior vice president of business development, told attendees at the Northeast Acquirers Association conference last week in West Dover, Vt. n He also …
Read More »ISOs and Acquirers Advised Against Waiting To Make Their EMV Migration Moves
With 20 months to go until a major liability shift associated with the migration of the U.S. payment system to chip card, independent sales organizations and acquirers should not wait to get themselves and their merchants ready for the October 2015 deadline, advised Leland S. Englebardt, group head of …
Read More »PayPros Deal Supports Global’s Strategy, But Not at Expense of ISOs, Company Says
Global Payments Inc.’s $420 million deal to buy integrated payments-software maker Payment Processing Inc., or PayPros, is furthering its strategy as the payment processor looks to grow its direct sales, says a Global Payments spokeswoman. Atlanta-based Global Payments announced the deal Friday to buy the Newark, Calif.-based PayPros, which …
Read More »As WePay Shutters Its Hosted Checkout, A Rival Seeks to Sign up Disappointed Merchants
At least one competitor of payment-service provider WePay Inc. is working to take advantage of WePay’s decision to cease providing a hosted checkout service for online merchants. 2Checkout.com Inc., Columbus, Ohio, this week began wooing merchants that may want to stay with a hosted checkout service rather than use the …
Read More »Twitter Getting Serious About Payments and Commerce? It Might Be
Social media network Twitter Inc. may be on the verge of enabling full-fledged commerce, and payments, for the more than 230 million monthly active users of the service, according to a report on Re/code, a technology news site. In it, Re/code says Twitter is nearing a deal with Stripe, …
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