With the holiday shopping season about to start in earnest, payments companies are preparing their clients—merchants and issuers—for the increased volume of both legitimate and fraudulent transactions. New checkout entrant Paze says with more than 125 million cards enrolled in the e-commerce payment option it anticipates reaching the goal of …

The evolution of artificial-intelligence tools toward countering credit card transaction fraud took another step with the launch of a new AI workflow from Nvidia Corp. Meanwhile, the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC finds that 90% of organizations’ counterparties whom they send to or receive instant payments …

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spent his Sunday afternoon highlighting key elements of the CFPB’s new data-privacy rule and criticizing banking organizations that have targeted the rule. The assault on the regulation includes a lawsuit filed the same day the final rule, in development for more …

With merchants demanding simpler yet more encompassing payment gateway capabilities, acquirer Elavon launched its Elavon Payment Gateway, starting first with small and mid-size businesses. The new Elavon gateway, announced Thursday, takes a cloud-based, omnichannel approach, offering “features and functionality from existing gateways,” Pari Sawant, Elavon’s chief product officer, tells Digital …

As the Christmas holiday shopping season nears, Hallmark Cards Inc. is readying a new greeting card line that is available with digital gift cards. Kansas City, Mo.-based Hallmark says the launch of its Gift Card Greetings Web site enables consumers to purchase a physical greeting card that comes with a …

Account-to-account payments provider Dwolla Inc. is readying itself for more pay-by-bank business with an expanded integration to open-banking platform Plaid Inc. Des Moines, Iowa-based Dwolla says the integration, which is scheduled to go live in early 2025, will make Plaid’s instant account-verification and risk-assessment services available in Dwolla’s pay by …

Square, the acquiring arm of Block Inc., is diving deeper into health-and-beauty services via a partnership with business-to-business distributor SalonCentric, a unit of L’Oreal USA, and expanding options in its app marketplace. In related news, Worldpay will continue as the exclusive payments provider for The Reynolds and Reynolds Co., a …

More than a year after proposing a click-to-cancel rule for subscriptions and recurring transactions, the Federal Trade Commission released a final version of the measure, officially called the Negative Option Rule. Announced Wednesday, the rule’s five primary elements call for important subscription information to be truthful, clear, and easy to …

With several factors at play, CPI Card Group Inc. is launching fresh card technology that reduces the amount of first-use plastics while providing issuers new formats and shapes for their credit, debit, and prepaid cards. Announced Wednesday, the All-in-One technology using the Secora Pay Green technology has been developed in …

Two payments providers, in separate developments, are fine- tuning their services for veterinary-practice software makers. Gravity Payments Inc. has an integration with Fear Free LLC, a software developer, and Weave is updating its software for veterinary clinics. Broomfield, Colo.-based Fear Free says it will offer Gravity’s payment option with its …