Tuesday , January 14, 2025

Competitive Strategies

NCR’s New Names And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/25/23

NCR Corp. announced names for its two major business units once the company spins off its ATM operations, with both retaining the NCR moniker. The digital-commerce business will be called NCR Voyix, while the ATM operations will be named NCR Atleos. FIS Inc.’s Worldpay processing unit launched Revenue Boost, a service based on …

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The Clearing House’s RTP Network Surpasses 500 Million Payments

Six years after its launch, the RTP Network surpassed 500 million real-time payments on Saturday, network operator The Clearing House Payments Co. reported Monday. The announcement at least temporarily shines the spotlight back onto the current leader in real-time payments in the wake of last week’s much-anticipated launch of the …

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With Its Chainwide Whole Foods Move, Amazon Signals Palm Checkout Is Ready for Prime Time

The planned expansion of Amazon.com Inc.’s palm-reading point-of-sale technology to all of the company’s 515 U.S. Whole Foods stores, a move the online retailer announced late last week, could represent a major leap for an authentication method few if any other backers have tried. The technology, introduced three years ago …

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Mastercard And Virtual Cards And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/24/23

Mastercard Inc. launched Mastercard Receivables Manager, aimed at streamlining the process businesses use to accept and process transactions on virtual cards. The 20-year-old billing platform eLabs announced it has rebranded itself as Vizibill. The Bitcoin ATM network Bitcoin Depot Inc. reported it expects second-quarter revenue to total between $196 million and $198 million, up …

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For ISOs And Other Acquirers, Picking a Sponsor Bank Entails Understanding Banks

Independent sales organizations can’t do much without a sponsor bank, also known as an acquiring bank, to get them access to the payment card networks. As with most business endeavors, the complexity of finding a sponsor bank has increased. It’s a challenge that attendees at the 2023 Midwest Acquirers Association …

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More Deals Like the Square Card Coming As AmEx Posts Record Quarterly Volume

American Express Co. is working to sign more card deals like the one it has with merchants using Block Inc.’s Square merchant-processing unit, while cardholder spending and revenue for the company have rebounded to hit record quarterly highs, top executives for the travel-and-entertainment giant said early Friday. The good news …

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Finzly and Other Providers Add FedNow Support And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/21/23

Service provider Finzly said it supports the FedNow real-time payments service that launched Thursday. Other providers— Jack Henry & Associates Inc. and Pidgin—also support the instant payment service. Fiserv Inc. said two of its clients are live on FedNow and nearly 100 others anticipate doing so in coming months. Banking services provider CSI said it offers FedNow access and noted …

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It’s Official: FedNow Launches With 35 Banks And Credit Unions Signed up For Instant Pay

The Federal Reserve’s instant-payment service, FedNow, is officially live with 35 banks and credit unions participating, the nation’s banking regulator announced early Thursday. The launch, which culminates four years of work since the Fed first announced its intention to build a real-time payments rail, comes as the payments industry moves …

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Relay Payments’ Latest Integration And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/20/23

Relay Payments, a payments platform for the trucking industry, announced an integration with McLeod Software, a vendor of management software for the same industry. ACI Worldwide Inc. introduced an acquiring-as-a-service platform in collaboration with Dock, a Brazil-based technology company. The product is aimed at retailers, restaurants, and e-commerce businesses. Consumer attitudes …

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FedNow’s Launch Is ‘Imminent’ As Observers Prepare for a New Age in Faster Payments

The Federal Reserve could launch its FedNow real-time payments service as early as tomorrow, sources tell Digital Transactions News. The network, which has been under development for nearly four years, represents the regulator’s first effort to create a nationwide network for instant payments, a service that other countries, and at …

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