Visa Inc. is leveraging its sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup to showcase several payments technologies, including contactless payments, facial recognition, and digital card issuance. Visa is deploying 5,300 contactless-enabled payment terminals at official FIFA venues and enabling taxis in Doha, Qatar, capital of the host country, to accept contactless …
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Months after the introduction of Google Wallet, Alphabet Inc. announced late Tuesday it is expanding the availability of the digital wallet to 12 more countries, bringing the total number of countries where the wallet is available to 57. Users will now also be able to make the wallet available on …
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Shift4 Payments Inc. has expanded its merchant-gaming portfolio by striking a deal with the Chickasaw Nation to process payments across all of its tribal-owned casino and non-casino locations, as well as third-party venues, such as valet services or restaurants operated by third parties within Chickasaw-owned casinos. The Chickasaw nation, the …
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American Express Co. is working with the popular social-media platform TikTok to launch the #ShopSmall Accelerator, a program intended to help small-business owners reach a new generation of shoppers on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 26, and throughout the rest of the holiday-shopping season. The deal will provide business owners with …
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Instacart, the online grocery-delivery service and marketplace that employs personal shoppers to shop for consumers—and then facilitates delivery of those orders to the customer’s home—has brought on Adyen Inc. to provide additional payment processing capabilities. The deal will enable Instacart to leverage Adyen’s platform for payments including, PINless debit. Instacart …
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The kinetic energy powering the open-banking wave continues to build. On Thursday, fintech Sila Inc. and MX Technologies Inc. announced tokenized integration for bank-account verification through MX’s MXapi Processor Tokens. The tokens will enable clients of Sila and their end users to digitally verify bank accounts and account data for …
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Affirm Holdings Inc. says it is on track to post profitable operating income in its fiscal year 2023. The declaration came during a conference call with analysts late Tuesday to discuss the buy now, pay later provider’s financial performance during the first quarter of its fiscal year 2023, which ended …
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Consumers are projected to be shopping more online this holiday shopping season, compared to the same period a year ago. Data released Tuesday by payments-technology provider ACI Worldwide Inc. projects a 15% increase in e-commerce transactions from October through December, compared to the same period in 2021. The projected increase …
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During its third-quarter earnings call late Thursday, PayPal Holdings Inc. announced a multi-pronged omnichannel strategy with Apple Inc. to enhance the company’s offerings for PayPal and Venmo merchants, as well as consumers. Topping the list was PayPal’s announcement that it plans to support Apple Tap to Pay on iPhones. The initiative …
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SoundExchange, a non-profit that collects and distributes digital performance royalties for sound recordings, is now enabling registered soundtrack creators to receive royalty payments through Zelle and Block Inc.’s Cash App mobile-payment service. Washington D.C.-based SoundExchange is a non-profit collective rights-management organization designated by Congress to collect and distribute digital-performance royalties …
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