Thursday , April 10, 2025

Acquiring

CardFlight Eases Card-on-File Access; Bill Debuts 1099 Form Filing Service

Merchants using the CardFlight SwipeSimple app have gained easier access to managing customer data and a way to charge to card-on-file credentials. In related acquiring news, Bill Holdings Inc. launched its 1099 Filing service, which enables small businesses to simplify their 1099 taxes. New York City-based CardFlight says the new …

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Fiserv’s Deal with COCC and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/11/24

Fiserv Inc. is expanding a relationship with fintech COCC to include cloud-based financial tools and fintech integrations for financial institutions. Xsolla, a commerce platform provider for video games, is working in Poland with Mastercard Inc. and Alor Bank to allow the bank’s Mastercard cardholders to redeem loyalty points for in-game purchases. …

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SurgePays Partners With Clover to Ease Marketing at the Point of Sale

SurgePays Inc. is integrating its ClearLine marketing platform with Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale technology set. The integration will enable small and mid-size merchants to deliver marketing and customer-engagement strategies at the point-of-sale. The integration adds value to independent sales organizations’ offerings by providing advanced marketing capabilities at the point of …

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Fee Cap Injunction Remains and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/10/24

Restaurant server tips averaged 18.8% in the third quarter, unchanged from the second quarter, according to data from Toast Inc.’s Q3 2024 Restaurant Trends Report. The research gathered data from approximately 127,000 locations served by the Toast payments platform. Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Seller Central will integrate AI-based payments and financial-management tools from Intuit Inc. …

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COMMENTARY: How Endpoint And Mobile Device Management Can Help Crack Down on Risk 

Financial firms live and die by their reputation. While we know that, with credit unions, insurance companies, and holding companies, the result of a cyberattack could mean funding challenges, reputational damage, and even insolvency, what many don’t know is that, today, around 70% of business risks enter through an endpoint …

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Cyber Weekend Sales up 5.7%, Fiserv Says and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/6/24

Same-store sales volume rose 5.7% and transactions were up 6.7% during the days from Nov. 27 and Dec. 2 compared to the same week last year, according to the 2024 Thanksgiving Holiday Insights report from Fiserv Inc. Illinois-based payments provider Payroc will work with Sunday, a restaurant point-of-sale technology provider, to offer the …

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Toast And Uber Expand a Delivery Partnership; SoundHound Rolls Out AI Ordering at Torchy’s Tacos

Hospitality point-of-sale company Toast Inc. has expanded its partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. to enable restaurants using Uber’s delivery service to reach customers through more channels and lower their delivery costs. Toast will integrate its platform with Uber Direct, Uber’s on-demand delivery platform that enables businesses to take orders through their Web …

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Payments Execs Head into Government As Fiserv And Shift4 CEOs Are Nominated for Key Federal Roles

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fiserv Inc. chief executive Frank Bisignano to be the next commissioner of the Social Security Administration, headquartered in Woodlawn, Md. The move follows by a day news that Trump has named Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive of Shift4 Payments Inc., a Fiserv rival, to …

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GNC Adds Paze Checkout and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/5/24

Online checkout service Paze said retailer GNC now accepts the digital wallet. Paze is a checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC. Digital gifting platform On Me signed a five-year agreement with Mastercard Inc. and received $1.7 million in pre-seed funding from venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau and Focal.VC to help it expand its retailer …

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Diebold Nixdorf’s Windows 11 ATM Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/4/24

ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf Inc. said two bank clients in Central Asia are the first to launch ATMs using Microsoft Windows 11. Block Inc.’s trio of payments platforms—Square, Afterpay, and Cash App—processed a record 144 million consumer transactions over the Black Friday through Cyber Monday period, up 17% from the same time …

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