With thousands of merchants across the globe, processing powerhouse Fiserv Inc. continues to reap the benefits of that reach with an 11.8% increase in its merchant-acceptance revenue in the third quarter. Heavily affecting the segment’s growth was a 19% increase in revenue from Fiserv’s Clover point-of-sale products and services and …

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s next step in payment security is to replace passwords with passkeys, an authentication technology that could eliminate many security and practical issues for consumers and organizations alike. PayPal said it is adding the passkey technology—it uses cryptographic keys to identify devices and was developed by the FIDO …

The online shopper going by “Michael Smith,” who lives in Houston, may not be a living, breathing consumer, according to new research from Socure, a digital identity verification provider. This consumer, with seemingly valid credentials, may be a synthetic identity meant to defraud merchants. So-called synthetic fraud, already accounting for …

The tug of passwords remains strong among individuals, though their use has dropped by as much as 9% in some use cases. Data from the second annual Online Authentication Barometer from the FIDO Alliance, an authentication-advocacy organization, still found that password use continues to be strong. That reliance on passwords …

Clients using Recurly Inc. to manage their subscription-pricing models have a new feature to use. Recurly on Tuesday launched a ramp-pricing model that enables its clients to dynamically increase or decrease pricing within their subscriptions. This is in addition to the fixed, one-time, usage-based, tiered, volume, stairstep, and hybrid models …

Dan R. Henry, who took over as chief executive and president, from Green Dot Corp. founder Steven Streit in March 2020, is out. Green Dot announced Monday Henry, who previously held executive positions at Euronet Worldwide and Netspend, was “terminated” Oct. 14. That’s when Austin, Texas-based Green Dot named George …

Consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics is looking to expand to 13 new markets for its Samsung Wallet service. Announced Friday, the expansion of the digital-wallet platform will more than double its presence from the eight nations where it is already available. Samsung Wallet is the new brand for the combined …

Chargebacks are the bane of e-commerce retailers, but new data from ACI Worldwide Inc. indicate many may have them mostly in check. Separately, Forter launched Smart Claims, a product to help better manage chargebacks. Released Thursday, the new ACI data find that overall fraud attempts remained flat at 0.01%, despite …

With Halloween two weeks away, it’s time to start looking at the 2022 holiday shopping season and its potential impact on retailers and their payments volumes. E-commerce powerhouse Adobe Inc. is forecasting $209.7 billion in U.S. online holiday shopping purchases, up 2.5% from $204.5 billion in the Nov. 1 through …

It’s a fact of the payments world that fraudsters are adept at watching and following consumer behavior to maintain their criminal revenue flow. Just as consumers have returned to shopping in stores, criminals have returned to the point-of-sale, albeit without neglecting their online activities. That’s the summation from Visa Inc., …