While 78% of consumers say they are willing to pay more to shop at small merchants to help those businesses flourish, most plan to shop at large retailers as the holiday shopping season kicks off, a survey from payments processor NMI says. When the holiday shopping season officially kicks off …
Read More »Flywire Teams With Blackbaud to Enable Cross Border Tuition Payments in the U.S.
Flywire Corp., a specialist in payments for higher education, has partnered with Blackbaud Inc., a provider of fundraising, education, and social impact apps, to enable digital tuition payments in the United States for international students. The deal covers more than 1,000 K-12 private and independent schools served by Blackbaud and …
Read More »A Senate Panel Sends a Signal: Time to Cut a Deal on Swipe Fees
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee told representatives of Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., and the merchant community on Tuesday it was time to “negotiate” an end to their decades-old dispute over credit card swipe fees. The comments came during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing billed as “Breaking the Visa-Mastercard Duopoly: …
Read More »Google Pay Adds Afterpay And Klarna; BluPeak CU Launches BNPL for Its Debit Card Holders
Afterpay, Block Inc.’s BNPL service, is making its service available to select Google Pay merchants for online purchases for the holiday-shopping season. Klarna will be available through Google Pay merchants in the United States next year. Consumers shop on Google more than 1 billion times per day, according to Google …
Read More »Lightspeed Rolls Out a Kitchen Display System; Fortis Adds a Voice Ordering Platform
Lightspeed Commerce Inc. has introduced a new kitchen display system it says will help restaurants address operational challenges, reduce operating costs, improve order accuracy, and enhance customer satisfaction. A key feature of the new kitchen display system (KDS), which can be integrated with Lightspeed’s point-of-sale platform, is the ability to …
Read More »Online Shoppers Love-Hate Relationship with Generative AI; Sift Releases New Fraud Benchmarking Metrics for E-Commerce
Despite 71% of online shoppers being unaware they are interacting with generative artificial intelligence, about half say they see value in the technology when it comes to personalizing the online shopping experience and would be willing to share personal data to receive a more customized shopping experience, says a recent …
Read More »Mastercard Plans to Tokenize All Online Transactions by 2030
Mastercard Inc. unveiled plans late Wednesday to tokenize card numbers for all online transactions globally by 2030. The move will make the need for physical card numbers, passwords, and one-time codes for online purchases obsolete, the network says. Tokenization masks in-the-clear card numbers with digits that would be indecipherable to …
Read More »GrabScanGo And MagTek Bring App Clip Technology to Hotel Mini Markets
GSG AveriGo LLC, a provider of self-service checkout technology at the point of sale, is working with GSG AveriGo LLC, a provider of self-service checkout technology at the point of sale, is working with MagTek Inc. to provide an App Clip through its GrabScanGo, service that enables consumers to purchase …
Read More »RTP Network Surpasses 1 Million Payments Per Day; Viamericas Employs RTP and FedNow for Cash-to-Account Transfers
The RTP network has reached a major milestone, averaging more than 1 million payments per day, The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC says. In addition to crossing this threshold, the RTP network, which TCH launched in 2017 as a real-time payments network, also set a single day record of 1.46 …
Read More »Gen Zers Are Struggling With Credit Card Debt, CreditCards.com Finds
Gen Zers struggle to pay their monthly credit card bills, with 56% having missed a payment or making a late payment, says a study from CreditCards.com. In addition, some 9% of Gen Zers rely on parental support to pay their credit card bills. Compounding these difficulties with credit card bills …
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