Nuvei Corp. announced early Tuesday it has entered into a definitive agreement with private-equity firm Advent International to be taken private in an all-cash deal valued at $6.3 billion. The deal comes less than a month after the Montreal-based processor announced it was fielding offers to take the company private. …
Read More »ACI Targets a Growing Digital Payments Market in the Middle East and Africa
ACI Worldwide Inc. announced early Monday it has signed a 10-year partnership with digital-payments technology provider Arab Financial Services. The deal is expected to accelerate ACI’s push to help financial institutions and fintechs in the Middle East and Africa modernize their digital-payments technology infrastructure, according to ACI. Under the terms …
Read More »Digital Wallets: Users Are Happier, But Adoption Still Lags Among Consumers And Merchants Alike
Customer satisfaction with digital wallets is on the rise, which is helping propel consumer adoption and usage, according to J.D. Power’s newly released 2024 Digital Wallet Satisfaction Study. Despite the increase in customer satisfaction, though, the study found wallets providers still have work to do to raise adoption among both …
Read More »Synthetic Identity Tops the Hit Parade of Tactics To Commit Digital Fraud, TransUnion Finds
Synthetic identity fraud has become the fastest growing form of digital fraud, totaling $3.1 billion in 2023, up from $1.9 million in 2020, a 63% increase, according to TransUnion LLC’s 2024 State of Omnichannel Fraud Report. Criminals are using synthetic identities, which are created from a combination of real and …
Read More »Generative AI, Pig Butchering, And Triangulation Scams Are Among the Biggest Fraud Threats, Visa Says
New technologies such as generative AI are making it easier for fraudsters to scam consumers, according to the spring edition of Visa Inc.’s 2024 Biannual Fraud Threats report, just released. What makes generative AI such an effective fraud tool is that it can be used to convince consumers to give …
Read More »New Nacha Rules Take Aim At Credit Push Fraud, Handing a Clearer Role to Receivers
Nacha, the governing body for the automated clearing house network, has approved a new set of rules aimed at curbing the growing threat of credit-push fraud. Credit-push fraud uses social engineering and email phishing attacks to deceive someone into sending funds to a criminal-controlled account. Common examples of credit-push fraud …
Read More »Nuvei Could Be in Play To Be Taken Private by Advent International
Montreal-based Nuvei Corp. early Monday issued a statement confirming it has received interest from potential investors and has created a “special committee” of independent directors to review “expressions of interest” regarding offers to take the company private, as well as other “strategic alternatives.” Private-equity firm Advent International Corp. is making …
Read More »DoorDash Expands Its SNAP/EBT Program to More Than 10,000 Stores
DoorDash Inc. has added 13 grocery-store chains to its platform that will accept electronic benefits transfer and SNAP cards for payment. The list of grocers—which includes, ACME Markets, Food City, Hy-Vee, Jewel-Osco, Kings Food Markets, Pavilions, Randalls, Shaw’s, Sprouts Farmers Market, Star Market, Stater Bros. Markets, Tom Thumb, and Vons—comprises …
Read More »Security Firm Zumigo Ditches Passwords for Customer Authentication in Online Transactions
Zumigo Inc., a provider of mobile-identity authentication technology, says it has enhanced its DeRiskify fraud-prevention product for e-commerce merchants by enabling sellers to authenticate customers without a password requirement when customers log into their account. Eliminating the need for passwords in the customer-verification process pleases customers, which in turn can …
Read More »Priority Technology Posts Record Earnings; Fortis Partners With WooCommerce for B2B Payments
Payments-technology provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. posted record revenue of $755.6 million in 2023, up 13.9% from the previous year. The year was capped off by a record fourth quarter, during which Priority posted revenues of $199.3 million, a 12.2% increase from the same period a year earlier. In both …
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