As legislatures eye geysers of tax revenue in the wake of the May 14 Supreme Court decision leaving legal sports betting up to each state, officials wondering how much that haul could be are looking to Nevada. It’s the only state that permits wide-open wagering on a full menu of …
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Investors jumped on shares of Netherlands-based payment processor Adyen Wednesday after the company priced its initial stock offering on the high end of its expected range at €240 ($282.48) per share. As of late morning Eastern time, the stock had more than doubled to €480.30 ($565.31) per share, prompting talk …
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Payment processor First Data Corp.’s Star debit network is poised to aggressively challenge Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. for a share of the signature-debit market that the global networks have dominated since signature debit became a payment option more than 20 years ago. Star gained a potentially big foothold in …
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Worldpay Inc. is adding another tool for financial institutions in their efforts to curtail the pricey and nuisance-laden aftereffects of rampant data breaches. The company’s solution comes in the form of credit and debit cards that use a dynamic card-verification value. Cincinnati-based Worldpay is testing the Motion Code-enabled credit and …
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Mark Horwedel, chief executive of the Merchant Advisory Group, an association of more than 100 of the nation’s biggest merchants that concerns itself with payment issues, plans to step down at year’s end. Replacing him will be John Drechny, chairperson of the group’s board of directors and currently senior director …
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Payment-technology firm i3 Verticals could raise almost $100 million in an expected initial public offering, according to news reports. The firm, launched six years ago as Charge Payment, is led by Greg Daily, a former chief executive at iPayment Inc. ATM network owner and operator Cardtronics plc reported that under …
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In what could be its final earnings report as a public company, point-of-sale terminal maker and online payment technology provider VeriFone Systems Inc. reported Friday that its revenues for the quarter ended April 30 fell 7.5% from a year earlier, but its quarterly loss narrowed considerably. San Jose, Calif.-based VeriFone …
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Intuit Inc. has stopped processing gun-related credit card transactions in at least some instances, the New York Post reported. The blocked transactions included sales of gun-related T-shirts and fees for gun-safety classes, according to the report. Intuit did not respond to requests for comment, the newspaper said. Sprott Money Ltd., which …
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USAA, the big insurance company and bank serving current and former military members and their families, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday accusing Wells Fargo Bank of infringing on four of its mobile remote deposit capture patents. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Marshall, Texas, asks for unspecified damages. …
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The Korean automaker Hyundai has made agreements to let drivers pay through the car’s infotainment system for gas at Chevron or Texaco, meals from Applebee’s To Go, and parking through ParkWhiz. Other automakers working on similar payment systems include Ford for parking and vehicle service and Chevrolet and Jaguar for …
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