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• Fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A Inc. says it will begin accepting Apple Pay and Android Pay Friday at the point of sale inside its stores and in drive-through lanes. Chick-fil-A announced in February it would accept Apple Pay along with its own Quick Response bar code-based mobile-payment service. • Wal-Mart …
Read More »Eye on Mobile Payments: Chase Pay Snags Phillips 66; Report Decries Wallets’ Value Void
JPMorgan Chase Co.’s Chase Pay mobile wallet, probably the most ambitious bank-operated U.S. mobile-payments service, on Wednesday announced it has signed up Phillips 66 Co., which sells gasoline under the Phillips 66, Conoco, and 76 brands, and will accept Chase Pay at its pumps and in its stores. No date …
Read More »Wargaming Uses RedD Shield and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• KeyBank announced it is supporting the Masterpass digital wallet from MasterCard Inc., which recently revamped Masterpass to stress in-store payments. • Wargaming, an online-games producer, has deployed the ReD Shield anti-fraud system from ACI Worldwide throughout Europe and now plans to deploy it globally. • WesBanco Bank Inc. will instantly issue …
Read More »New EMVCo Device-Certification Process Could Give a Lift to NFC Mobile Payments
A streamlined approval for contactless mobile-payment devices announced Wednesday by chip card standards body EMVCo could help mobile-payments boosters realize their elusive dream that the coming of chip cards to the U.S. also will lift smart-phone-based payments. The new approval process is meant to confirm that mobile devices enabled for …
Read More »UnionPay’s QuickPass Mobile-Payments Service Makes Its North American Debut in Canada
By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews UnionPay International’s QuickPass mobile-payments service made its North American debut with acceptance initiated in Canada, the company, a unit of China UnionPay, announced Tuesday. Consumers can use their UnionPay QuickPass cards, equipped with a contactless chip, or a card loaded into a mobile wallet, at contactless payment …
Read More »JetPay Reports 2Q Results and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Prepaid card program manager Green Dot Corp. has expanded its Instant Pay disbursement program with on-demand car-hailing service Uber to enable real-time payment of driver pay to almost any Discover, MasterCard, or Visa debit card, using MasterCard Inc.’s MasterCard Send service. Up to now, Instant Pay driver disbursements were …
Read More »With 30% of POS Terminals Still on Dial-Up, TNS Debuts Dial-Up Backup Service
By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Acquirers that service merchants that still use dial-up point-of-sale terminals have a new option for connecting these no-longer-mainstream devices to processors with the launch of a new product from Transaction Network Services Inc. Announced Tuesday, the service from Reston, Va.-based TNS provides acquirers with one connection to …
Read More »Intuit And Revel Systems Ride Their mPOS Partnership Into Salons And Grocery Stores
By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews When Intuit Inc. launched QuickBooks Point of Sale with tablet-payments specialist Smoothie King Franchises Inc., a chain of 700 juice outlets, to install Revel tablets chainwide in what at the time was the largest such deal on record. Earlier this month, news emerged that IBM Corp. …
Read More »Revel Systems Expands QuickBooks Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Mobile point-of-sale service provider Cardflight announced that processor BluePay Processing LLC is now offering the Cardflight SwipeSimple service to merchants. • Revel Systems, provider of iPad-based point-of-sale technology, and Intuit Inc. expanded an existing partnership to bring Intuit QuickBooks Point of Sale services to salon and grocery retailers. The …
Read More »Visa Reminds Thunder Bay That It’s Still Around as Its Standoff With Wal-Mart Continues
By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews Visa Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. say there is no news in their standoff that began July 18 with Wal-Mart kicking Visa out of its three stores in Thunder Bay, Ontario. But Visa over the past several weeks has run a marketing campaign to remind residents of …
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