Vesta, a fraud-prevention provider for e-commerce merchants, said it will integrate Stripe Inc.’s Radar risk scores and Stripe Connect, which enables businesses to facilitate purchases and payments between third-party buyers and sellers, into its Payment Guarantee platform. The Stripe Radar integration will help Vesta’s client merchants increase transactional approval rates …
Read More »Eye On BNPL: Consumers Look To BNPL To Avoid Card Debt; Sezzle’s Deal With Sportsman’s Warehouse
Consumers’ concerns about incurring credit card debt this holiday season is pushing many shoppers to consider buy now, pay later loans as a budget-management option, according to a report from the payments firm Klarna AB. Some 53% of respondents expressed concern about incurring credit card debt during the holiday season. …
Read More »2024 Juniper Trends Range from Account-to-Account Payments to Value-Added Services Atop FedNow
As 2023 winds down, Juniper Research is out with its top 10 trends for payments and fintechs in 2024. Chief among them is a challenge to cards in e-commerce and funding for wallets through account-to-account payments. Closely related is the prospect for FedNow, the nascent real-time payment service from the …
Read More »Eye On Stadiums: Shift4 Adds the Miami Dolphins; Oakview Group Partners With Oracle
Shift4 Payments Inc. extended its reach in stadium payments Wednesday by partnering with the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium to process payments for ticket sales for Dolphins games and other events at the stadium. The deal builds on Shift4’s integration with Ticketmaster Entertainment LLC, which was …
Read More »Some Merchants Take Issue with the CCCA
Small businesses claim they have legitimate concerns that their larger counterparts will be the beneficiaries of lower card acceptance costs should the Credit Card Competition Act become law, argues the Small Business Payments Alliance, a trade organization recently formed by the Electronic Payments Coalition. Among the concerns about how the …
Read More »Paysafe Continues Its Recovery As It Focuses on Bolstering Growth
Paysafe Ltd.’s chef executive early Tuesday pointed to progress in the processor’s growth plan and outlined moves aimed at bolstering both the company’s product line and its stock. A new digital wallet aimed at U.S. small businesses will launch before year’s end, while the company’s board authorized a $50-million share-repurchase …
Read More »Zelle’s New Education Campaign And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/14/23
Zelle, the person-to-person payment service from Early Warning Services LLC, said it will launch a consumer education campaign video series this month to help educate consumers how to spot and avoid financial scams, specifically imposter scams. Zelle, in a statement to Digital Transaction News, also said most Zelle transactions—99.9%—are without any …
Read More »Fanatics Adds Paysafe’s Raft of Card and Alternative Payments for Online Betting
Fanatics Betting & Gaming, which launched its first retail sports-betting location in January and its mobile sportsbook in May, will use the card-payment and alternative-payment methods offered by Paysafe Ltd. Announced Monday, the integration will enable U.S. bettors on the Fanatics platform to make deposits and receive payouts in a …
Read More »Eye on Processing: Cantaloupe Quarterly Revenue up 8%; Repay Boasts 4% Revenue Bump
Unattended payments and software specialist Cantaloupe Inc. boosted its roster of customers in its fiscal 2024 first quarter, which helped increase the company’s revenue to $62.7 million, up 8.5% from $57.8 million in the 2023 first quarter that ended Sept. 30. Malvern, Pa.-based Cantaloupe said the number of active customers …
Read More »A New Merchant Group Voices Opposition to a Bill Aimed at Credit Card Acceptance Costs
The political battle over the Credit Card Competition Act has heated up as the Small Business Payments Alliance (SBPA), a recently formed merchant trade group, has come out in opposition to the proposed legislation. The group argues that, if passed, the CCCA would harm small businesses. The SBPA, which held …
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