With consumers shifting more of their transactions online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, criminals continue to target card-not-present transactions and step up their efforts to deceive consumers into giving up their account information, says Feedzai Inc.’s latest quarterly Financial Crime Report. The three leading factors contributing to the increase in …

With digital and physical commerce melding, Fiserv Inc. intends to position its Carat platform as the engine to enable providers such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit and merchants to process transactions across both channels. Fiserv took a big step in that direction last week when it announced it will enable …

The Western Union Co.’s  real-time digital payout service for sending money real-time to bank accounts, digital wallets, and cards, is now available in 100 countries. The service, which was announced in September 2019 at Western Union’s investor day conference, leverages Western Union’s more than 40 banking and payment partnerships covering more than …

Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit on Wednesday announced a major overhaul of its 5-year-old Google Pay wallet to push beyond mobile payments and incorporate links and data Google says will generate daily usage. The move comes as major payment apps such as Apple Pay and Google Pay have sought to boost …

With the Covid-19 pandemic surging across most of the United States, sports and entertainment venue operators are looking for ways to convert cash transactions to cashless payments. In response, Atlanta-based InComm Payments on Wednesday announced the Jacksonville Jaguars organization of the National Football League is allowing consumers to exchange cash …

Payments facilitator-services provider  Infinicept on Tuesday announced it has received a new round of funding from Mastercard Inc. and MissionOG, a venture-capital firm specializing in financial services and software and co-founded by former Mastercard president and chief executive Gene Lockhart. The new funding round, the amount of which was not disclosed, …

Momentum for real-time payments in the United States picked up Monday as Mastercard Inc. announced it is adding account-to-account (A2A) payments functionality to its Track Business Payment Service. The new capability, which is rolling out in the United States and will be available globally by year-end 2021, allows companies to …

With a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic surging and bringing with it the fear of another nationwide lockdown, merchants can expect to see a minimum 20% to 30% increase in holiday e-commerce sales in 2020, compared to 2019, says ACI Worldwide Inc. The Naples, Fla.-based payments provider Thursday said …

Payment technology provider InComm Payments is partnering with Mobility Capital Finance (MoCaFi), a mobile-based banking platform, to enable MoCaFi Mobility Debit Mastercard cardholders to load their cards at no charge. MoCaFi will absorb any costs related to the reload. The deal enables MoCaFi, which serves unbanked and underbanked customers, to offer …

Purewrist, a provider of contactless transaction technology, announced Tuesday its Purewrist GO wearable bracelet will go live on card issuer and processor i2c Inc.’s platform. Purewrist chose i2c as its payment processor because of i2c’s global footprint and its platform’s support for devices that enable contactless and mobile transactions, says …