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Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) on Tuesday said it expects to close its colossal $43 billion acquisition of payment processor Worldpay Inc. in the third quarter following a Federal Trade Commission ruling. The merger, announced in March, would create a processing colossus with payments services ranging from merchant processing, …
Read More »Factors Align for Widespread U.S. Contactless Payments Adoption, A Fed Study Suggests
The conditions for the widespread adoption of contactless payments using chip cards are in place, asserts a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. But when that will happen and what will trigger it are unknown in the Fed report, “Tap to Pay: Will Contactless Cards Pave the …
Read More »Visa Next Promises Greater Consumer Control of Digital Payments
Visa Inc. announced Monday the debut of Visa Next, a platform for issuers and issuer-processors that enables such options as the ability to create new digital card accounts on demand and instantly activate and tokenize digital accounts for e-commerce and mobile-wallet use. Visa Next offers a series of application programming …
Read More »Apriva Adds viv Support and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/22/19
Apriva LLC, a payments provider for unattended retail, said its network will support the viv mobile-payments app from Vagabond, allowing college students to use virtual campus cards for vending-machine purchases. In related news, Apriva said it will support mobile payments for AveriGo LLC, a software provider for the vending and …
Read More »Bad Bots Favor Financial Services, Report Finds
Being Number 1 when it comes to malicious online bot traffic is not the highest praise for the financial-services industry. But, that’s where the industry stands in the “2019 Bad Bot Report: The Bot Arms Race Continues,” released Wednesday by Distil Networks. Of the traffic tracked in the report, 42.2% …
Read More »Payment Processor Banned Following Violation of FTC Settlement
A federal judge has banned payments provider Priority Payout Corp. and its owner Thomas Wells from ever directly or indirectly working in the payment-processing industry following a violation of a 2009 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. Announced last week, the ban, ordered by U.S. District Court Judge James C. …
Read More »CardFlight Unveils SwipeSimple Terminal, Extending Its Software Into the Smart POS Market
CardFlight Inc. is adding point-of-sale terminals to its roster of SwipeSimple-compatible products with the launch Tuesday of SwipeSimple Terminal. This puts the SwipeSimple POS software on more devices in addition to tablets, personal computers, and mobile devices. More than 50,000 merchants currently use SwipeSimple, CardFlight says. SwipeSimple Terminal initially is …
Read More »Amazon Go Stores To Accept Cash, Eventually
Amazon Go stores may soon accept cash. “We are working to accept cash at Amazon Go,” an Amazon spokesperson confirms in a statement to Digital Transactions News. Amazon Go stores only accept in-app payments now. A consumer must download the Go app and scan a barcode from the app on her …
Read More »Most Full-Service Restaurants Are Frustrated With Their Payments Services, a Survey Finds
Frustration with payments runs high among full-service restaurant operators, so much so that only 20% expressed no frustrations in a new TouchBistro Inc. report released Monday. The other 80% had some issue with their payments services, with many of them, 21%, citing a lack of transparency on pricing. That was …
Read More »Younger Consumers Are Pushing for E-Gift Cards, Blackhawk Survey Finds
Physical gift cards may want to look over their shoulders, so to speak. Digital gift cards are gaining ground, especially among younger consumers, finds new research from Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc., a Pleasanton, Calif.-based gift card specialist. Chief among the results is that 41% of Generation Z consumers, generally those …
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