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The SWIFT international payments network announced two tests it has completed have shown that central bank digital currencies and other tokenized assets can be handled without incident on existing processing technology.In related news, the fintech CryptoBucks said its CrytoBucks Wallet is available for download from the App Store and Google Play. The wallet allows …

Point-of-sale software developer Zuza launched its Zuza Marketplace on its Super App platform. Merchants can peruse the marketplace to find tools and third-party apps that can aid their businesses, Zuza said.U.S.-based Uplift, which offers buy now, pay later capability for the travel industry, announced Royal Air Maroc, a Morocco-based airline, has adopted its …

Despite economic headwinds from supply-chain bottlenecks and geopolitical instability, the payments industry continues to show resilient revenue growth, says a new report from the Boston Consulting Group. Global payments revenues are projected to grow about 9.5% in 2022, according to the report. Beyond this year, revenues are projected to grow …

Indications emerged late last week that Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., has embarked on a strategy for his credit card routing bill that follows a path similar to one he forged a decade ago for his rules governing debit card routing. The veteran senator, along with co-sponsor Roger Marshall, R-Kan., have …

Lightspeed Commerce announced it has added a data-analytics capability, Lightspeed Advanced Insights, to its Lightspeed Restaurant payments service.The French payments company Worldline announced it has closed on the sale of its Terminals, Solutions & Services unit to Apollo Funds. The 2.2-billion-euro deal, which includes the Ingenico line of point of sale devices, was announced in …

Consumers’ usage of debit cards has finally surpassed that of credit cards. Through the second quarter of 2022, 56.2% of consumers preferred debit as their primary payment card, compared to 39.5% for credit, according to a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Those numbers represent a dramatic change in the …

In response to consumers’ growing concerns over the security and management of their personal data by businesses with which they interact, ATB Ventures on Thursday introduced its Oliu platform, a set of identity products aimed at helping businesses safely manage and verify the credentials of consumers they interact with digitally. …

Fiserv Inc. said its Carat operating system has added a capability for large enterprises to more readily access and analyze payments data.Mastercard Inc. said it is launching Strive USA, a small business imitative, in the United States for the first time. The goal is to support 5 million SMBs over the next five years.Also, …

The big payments processor Elavon Inc. has joined the movement to convert mass transit in the United States to contactless technology for fare transactions. The Atlanta-based company on Tuesday launched its Mass Transit Payments platform, aimed at both public and private agencies and with gateway and acquiring services provided by …

One country—the United States—accounts for 46% of all ransomware attacks, a sobering statistic revealed in a new report from NordLocker, a European cybersecurity provider. Yet, within the 50 states, not all have the same propensity for the nefarious attacks, NordLocker says, which analyzed multiple databases of ransomware incidents that affected …