Tuesday , December 3, 2024

Peter Lucas

The Cleveland Browns Team Up With Aramark; ParTech Rolls Out a New Platform For Restaurants

The Cleveland Browns of the National Football League are expanding their grab-and-go technology to food-and-beverage concessions throughout Huntington Bank Field, the team’s home stadium. The new service, called Express Access, will be available at 12 locations within the stadium, enabling consumers to place orders across the entire facility. Since 2023, …

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Mastercard Agrees to Acquire Minna And Partners With Amazon Payments Services

Mastercard Inc. announced early Tuesday it is acquiring Minna Technologies, a provider of subscription-management applications. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will enable consumers to more easily manage, renew, and cancel their subscriptions by providing them a single view of all their subscriptions within their banking apps …

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Online Ordering And Delivery Make It Easier for SNAP Recipients to Shop, a DoorDash Survey Says

Online grocery delivery provides recipients of SNAP benefits with increased access to food and helps them feel less self-conscious about using their benefits, says a survey Monday from online food-ordering and -delivery service DoorDash Inc. Some 74% of the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) recipients surveyed said online shopping helps …

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Paymentus Brings Digital Billing and Payments to Altera Digital Health

Paymentus Holdings Inc., a provider of cloud-based bill-payment technology, has reached an agreement with health-care information-technology provider Altera Digital Health Inc. to include its electronic bill- presentment and payments platform in Altera’s suite of healthcare IT solutions. The deal is expected to streamline the billing and payment processes for health-care providers …

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Consumers Strongly Support Illinois Interchange Law, Proponents Say

The Illinois Retail Merchants Association released a survey late Wednesday showing that voters in the state support the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act passed earlier this year. The survey comes hard on the heels of a lawsuit filed last month by several organizations representing banks and credit unions challenging the …

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Combatants Take Up Their Positions in Reaction to the DoJ’s Antitrust Suit Against Visa

Reaction from the payments industry to the Justice Department’s announcement Tuesday that it is suing Visa Inc. over antitrust issues involving its debit card business was swift and pointed. As expected, representatives of the payments industry denounced the lawsuit as baseless, while representatives of the merchant community and legislators friendly …

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AppBrilliance Teams With Wallet Factory to Bring Real Time Payments to Digital Wallets

AppBrilliance Inc., a provider of real-time payments, has partnered with digital-wallet solutions provider Wallet Factory to enable real-time payments on Wallet Factory’s platform. Wallet Factory will use AppBrilliance’s Money API to enable payments on closed-loop digital wallets via The Clearing House’s RTP and the Federal Reserve’s FedNow networks. AppBrilliance launched …

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Bluefin And Moneris Move to Enhance Point-to-Point Encryption for Merchants

Bluefin Payment Systems LLC expects its deal with processor Moneris Solutions Corp. will significantly streamline Canadian merchants’ payment card security through what the parties say is an enhanced point-to-point encryption solution. Under the terms of the deal, announced last week, Moneris will include point-to-point encryption (P2PE) capabilities in Bluefin’s PCI …

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A Report Shows How Payments Impact Guests’ Experience at Hotels

Payments play a bigger role than many might imagine in how hotels interact with guests—and can affect a wide array of hospitality revenue streams, says a report released late Thursday from the processor Adyen NV. Some 37% of respondents say they have abandoned the booking process because they weren’t able …

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The Electronic Payments Coalition Weighs in on a Lawsuit Challenging Illinois’s Interchange Law

The Electronic Payments Coalition late Wednesday filed an Amicus brief on behalf of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The lawsuit, brought by Illinois Bankers Association, Illinois Credit Union League, American Bankers Association, and America’s Credit Unions and filed last month in the United …

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