- First Data Corp. released its Holiday Insights dashboard, which shows real-time U.S. holiday spending trends, such as total spend percentage increase, today’s most active categories with average ticket and total transactions, and regional payment volume. To date, it indicates retail spending from Thanksgiving through Black Friday increased 6.4% year-over-year.
- Cardfree Inc., a provider of mobile-wallet technology for merchants, said it is opening its order-ahead application programming interface to merchants and developers for development via the Cardfree software development kit.
- Merchant processor Priority Technology Holdings Inc. announced a number of senior-management changes and additions, including the transition of chief executive John Priore to vice chairman of the board of directors. Current executive chairman Tom Priore will become CEO.
- Payment-services provider BillingTree announced an integration with TCN, a provider of cloud-based contact-center services, allowing TCN customers to access BillingTree payment services and BillingTree clients to access TCN’s capabilities.
- Business-to-business payments provider Bill.com announced it is working with First National Bank of Omaha to offer small-business clients digital accounts-payable and accounts-receivable capability.
- Digital-banking software provider Kony Inc. is working with PSECU, said to be Pennsylvania’s largest credit union, to update the institution’s digital-banking application.
- MoneyGram International Inc. announced its cross-border remittance service is now available in seven more countries: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia, and Switzerland.
- Mercator Advisory Group released its “15th Annual U.S. Closed-Loop Prepaid Cards Market Forecasts, 2017-2021” report.
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