Against the backdrop of an overall decline in small businesses’ satisfaction with payment processors, Square Inc. ranks highest with a score of 857 out of 1,000, according to the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Merchant Services Satisfaction Study. PayPal Holdings Inc. comes in second with a score of 852, with Bank of America Merchant …
Read More »Western States Acquirers Names 2021 Leaders and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/5/21
The Western States Acquirers Association announced two new board members, Amanda Beam of Humboldt Merchant Services and Glenn Smith of NCR Corp. Also, Scott DeFazio, Fiserv Inc., was elected secretary for 2021 and Jason Putnam, The Independent Bankers Bank N.A., Deborah Camm, SafraPay, and Lane Connor, Fuzse, were reelected as president, vice …
Read More »Lightspeed’s Revenue Jumps 79% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/4/21
Payments provider Lightspeed POS Inc. reported total revenue of $57.6 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, up 79% year-over-year. Revenue was $49.3 when excluding the recent acquisitions of payments providers ShopKeep and Upserve. The company’s merchant base grew 74% year-over-year to 115,000, or 84,000 excluding the acquisitions, up from 66,000.Fiserv Inc. and the Inclusive Innovation …
Read More »PayPal Registered a Record Year in 2020 And Looks for an Even Bigger 2021
Buoyed by an explosion of e-commerce activity following the onset of Covid-19, PayPal Holdings Inc. last year enjoyed what turned out to be a record year for growth. Now, it looks to roll out a flurry of new services. “We released more products and services in 2020 than in any …
Read More »Payoneer Agrees to a SPAC Merger That Will Take the Company Public
Global e-commerce payments provider Payoneer Inc. announced Wednesday morning it will go public via a merger with a blank-check company, confirming reports about a deal that first emerged last month. In the merger, which values Payoneer at $3.3 billion, the 15-year-old, New York City-based firm becomes the eighth payments-related company …
Read More »FedNow To Launch in 2023 and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/3/21
The FedNow real-time payment service will launch commercially in 2023, the Federal Reserve said, narrowing the launch date from the 2023-24 timing it has projected since announcing the project in 2019.Fuel retailer Valero Energy Corp. said it is working with payments-technology provider P97 Networks to launch a mobile app that allows users to activate …
Read More »Visa Will Waive Fees for Authorize.Net on Super Bowl Sunday, Launches VisaNet+AI
Visa Inc. is leveraging its sponsorship of the National Football League with a new one-day promotion geared to attract small businesses to its Authorize.Net payment gateway on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7. Visa announced Tuesday that it will waive Authorize.Net’s monthly gateway fee for the life of an account, along …
Read More »Jared Isaacman To Don a Spacesuit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/2/21
Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive of Shift4 Payments Inc. and an experienced pilot, will command Inspiration4, the world’s first civilian space flight, scheduled for the fourth quarter and mounted in collaboration with SpaceX. Isaacman is also donating $100 million to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which will have two …
Read More »AmEx Wants To Boost Takeout Orders and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/1/21
American Express Co. said it is working with its reservation-technology company Resy to encourage cardholders to order out from restaurants. The program includes new dining offers on many AmEx cards.Exactuals LLC, whose PaymentHub platform processes residuals, royalties, and other payments for the entertainment industry, said dollar volume on the platform grew …
Read More »Ex-Mastercard Executive’s Payment Tech-Focused Investment Firm and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/29/21
Javier Perez, formerly president of Mastercard Europe, has launched Global PayTech Ventures, said to be the first venture-capital firm concentrating exclusively on payment technology.Springbrook Software, developer of systems supporting payments for local governments, released its Municipal Payments Collection portal, which supports payments for miscellaneous town fees. The portal is available via …
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