Zippy’s Restaurants said credit and debit card data, including cardholder names and numbers, may have been compromised in a “data-security incident” at its approximately two dozen locations in Hawaii between last Nov. 23 and March 29; the chain learned of the incident March 9. The Western Union Co. has added …
Read More »Australia Post Select U.S. POS System and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/24/18
Boston-based OneView Commerce announced that Australia Post signed a multiyear software-as-a-service agreement to use OneView’s Cloud POS service. Payments provider Merchant e-Solutions released an updated version of its payment-acceptance extension for the Magento e-commerce platform. Payouts company Transpay said outbound payments from the United States to other nations increased 93% …
Read More »7.1 Billion EMV Cards in Circulation and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/19/18
NCR Corp. is the top provider of multivendor software for ATMs globally, according to U.K.-based research firm RBR. The company controls 32% of the installed base of 1.3 million machines running the software, 12 points higher than the second-place vendor. EMVCo, the chip card standards organization owned by the major …
Read More »Data Thieves Increasingly Target Service Providers, Trustwave Reports
Point-of-sale integrators, help desks, and other computer-related service providers for businesses, look out—the hackers are after you. The new Global Security Report 2018 from Chicago-based Trustwave says service providers were involved in 9.5% of the 700-plus data compromises the firm investigated in 2017. In 2016, service providers played a role …
Read More »Cash Demand Isn’t Going Away, So Fiserv Expands Its CardFree Cash Service to More ATMs
Bank processors over the past several years have worked to combine cardless technology with a continuing consumer demand for cash, a trend that took on momentum on Wednesday with an announcement from Fiserv Inc. that three ATM manufacturers are now supporting the company’s 3-year-old CardFree Cash service. ATM makers Genmega, …
Read More »ACI’s UnionPay Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3-22-18
NCR Corp. announced that chairman and CEO Bill Nuti will step down for health reasons after its board of directors completes a search for his replacement “in the next couple of months.” Nuti then will serve as chairman emeritus and a consultant to the ATM and point-of-sale payment technology provider. …
Read More »Food Distributor Selects FTNI and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/12/18
VeriFone Systems Inc. introduced its Carbon Mobile 5, a point-of-sale device that fits in the palm of the hand and can run payment, loyalty, and inventory-management applications on the Android operating system. Financial Transmission Network Inc. (FTNI) said Merchants Foodservice, which FTNI says is the 12th-largest U.S. food-service distributor, will …
Read More »Paying a Price in Mobile Security and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/23/18
In the wake of the Florida school shooting, First National Bank of Omaha has said it will not renew an agreement it has with the National Rifle Association to issue a cobranded Visa card. American Express Co. said its cardholders can now use their Membership Rewards points to order items …
Read More »Diebold Nixdorf Reports Mixed Results and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/14/18
Fourth-quarter hardware sales for ATM and banking and retail-payment equipment manufacturer Diebold Nixdorf Inc. fell 11% year over year to $473.2 million, but software and services revenues rose 19% and 7%, respectively, the company reported. Credit card balances hit $834 billion in the fourth quarter, up 7% from $779 billion …
Read More »NCR’s ATM Revenues Dip as POS Equipment Sales Rise
ATM manufacturer NCR Corp. reported Thursday that its ATM revenues declined 21% in the fourth quarter, but point-of-sale hardware revenues grew 23%. Total revenues at Atlanta-based NCR came in at $1.78 billion, down 1% from $1.8 billion in 2016’s fourth quarter and off 3% on a constant-currency basis. The company …
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