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Mastercard Payment Passkey Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/29/24

Mastercard Inc. launched its Payment Passkey Service with payments processors and consumers in India, and says it will introduce the technology in other markets globally in coming months. The technology, aimed at online transactions, tokenizes payment credentials and enables biometric authentication of cardholders. Canada-based online travel agency justfly.com introduced a pay-by-bank feature, allowing travelers to …

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Sephora Loyalty Members Can Now Use Paze Checkout

Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, says consumers that belong to the Sephora loyalty program can now use it to pay for transactions on the retailer’s Web site. Backed by some of the nation’s largest banks, Paze is an expedited checkout service that includes addresses and …

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Onfleet’s Shopify Tie-up and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/26/24

Onfleet, a delivery management software platform, said its new partnership with Shopify Inc., an e-commerce and point-of-sale platform, integrated Shopify online orders with Onfleet’s platform. Rentvine, a software platform for rent payments and other property-management functions, raised $74 million in growth capital from Mainsail Partners. Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region are adopting …

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Jack Henry Revenue up 4.7% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/21/24

Processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. reported June-quarter revenue of $559.9 million, up 4.7% from the same quarter last year. Revenue for the 12-month period came to $2.22 billion, up 6.6%. Net income for the quarter totaled $101 million, a 3.4% increase; for the year ended June 30, $381.8 million, up 4.1%. …

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COMMENTARY: Why Merchants’ Legal Assault on Acceptance Costs Is Anti-Consumer: Part II

Merchants want lower interchange. In their Shangri-la, interchange would be negative, meaning merchants would be paid to accept credit and debit cards. This is not unknown in the real world. For example, Australia’s national debit network for many years had negative interchange. Merchants want to be able to freely surcharge …

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Lenders Bring Suit Against Illinois’s Newly Enacted Interchange Law

Several organizations representing banks and credit unions filed a lawsuit late Thursday challenging Illinois’s Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, which was signed into law June 7. The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, was brought by the Illinois Bankers Association, The American Bankers Association, …

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COMMENTARY: Why Merchants’ Legal Assault on Acceptance Costs Is Anti-Consumer: Part I

While merchants, like consumers, love credit and debit cards, they don’t like having to pay to accept them. It’s human nature to want to pay less for products and services, no matter how good they are. To reduce payment-acceptance fees, merchants have brought a battery of antitrust lawsuits against Mastercard …

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Consumers Favor Cash Back Over Other Rewards As a Counter to Inflation, J.D. Power Finds

Cashback has replaced miles and rewards as the top credit card perk consumers want, according to J.D. Power’s 2024 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study. The trend is being driven by inflationary pressures that have hiked credit card interest rates and annual fees. As a result, consumers are gravitating to cards …

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FIS’ New P2P Payments Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/15/24

FIS Inc. said it will make a peer-to-peer payment service from Neural Payments available to its banking customers. The white-label product enables bank customers to transfer money from their accounts to anyone, regardless of weather the recipient’s financial institution uses Neural Payments and without the need to download a third-party app …

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Eye on Fraud: Most Say AI Will Make Fraud Worse; ClearSale’s New Fraud Prevention Tools

It’s early days for artificial intelligence use, but already most consumers—74%—are concerned it could be used to advance further fraud attacks. That’s the word from risk-management provider Abrigo in its latest survey. In related news, ClearSale launched a suite of tools to help retailers counter online fraud. Fraud worries are …

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