Philip McHugh is stepping down as chief executive of Paysafe Ltd. and is being succeeded by Bruce Lowthers, a 15-year veteran of FIS Inc. McHugh, who is also leaving Paysafe’s board, is departing after two quarters in which Paysafe’s crucial digital-wallet business has struggled with declining payment volumes.BankProv, a unit …
Read More »Adyen Poised To Offer Tap to Pay on iPhone To U.S. Merchants
Processor Adyen NV is poised to be among the first to offer Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone service to U.S. merchants. Sometime later this year the service will launch, enabling compatible iPhones to accept contactless payments without the use of additional hardware or payment terminals. Announced in February …
Read More »Bolt To Acquire Wyre and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/7/22
The commerce platform Bolt has agreed to acquire the cryptocurrency provider Wyre to enable consumers to spend crypto at Bolt merchants, which will receive fiat currency. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close before year’s end, were not disclosed.In related news, payments platform Nium said it has partnered with cryptocurrency specialist BitPay to allow …
Read More »Big Banks’ Interest in Launching Zelle Into Retail Payments Puzzles Some Observers
A serious expansion of the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network or just saber rattling to get a better deal from the card networks? That’s one question raised by payments-industry experts after The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co.—two of the seven big financial institutions …
Read More »Fraud Is Trending Down Overall, But Businesses Must Remain Vigilant In The Fight Against It, AFP Says
Payment fraud continued to decline in 2021 with 71% of organizations reporting they have been victims of payments fraud activity, compared to 74% in 2020 and 81% in 2019, according to the Association for Financial Professionals’ annual fraud report. The 2021 results are the lowest since 2014. The Bethesda, Md.-based …
Read More »Eye on ISOs: Shift4’s Airport Deal; Payroc Snaps up Iroquois Merchant Services
Ontario International Airport in California is adopting Shift4 Payments Inc.s’ VenueNext mobile point-of-sale technology to allow passengers to order and pay for food and merchandise using their mobile phones. The service includes new self-checkout technology that allows travelers to scan a UPC code, add it to a shopping cart, and …
Read More »TouchBistro Adds Marketing Component and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/5/22
Payments provider TouchBistro launched TouchBistro Marketing, aimed at helping restaurants connect and market to customers via custom marketing campaigns. The new system links to TouchBistro’s restaurant-management platform.Innovative Payment Solutions Inc. announced the second phase of its IPSIPay App with approval from Visa Inc. for use of Visa debit cards within the app.PayPal Holdings …
Read More »The PCI Security Standards Council Launches the Latest Version of Its Security Standard
After years of soliciting input from more than 200 organizations in the payments industry, the PCI Security Standards Council Thursday published version 4.0 of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The new standard, which provides a baseline of technical and operational requirements designed to protect account data, replaces version …
Read More »Paysafe Bets on Ontario and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/4/22
Paysafe Ltd. announced it is processing payments for several iGaming operators in the Canadian province of Ontario, including PointsBet and theScoreBet.Diebold Nixdorf said Langley Federal Credit Union selected the company to operate and manage its self-service banking channel. The credit union said it has more than 320,000 membersBuy now, pay later specialist Klarna …
Read More »U.S. Merchant Acquiring Volume Surpasses $9 Trillion Even As E-Commerce Slows
The 25 biggest U.S. merchant acquirers control about 90% of payment dollar volume, even as e-commerce may be losing some of its recent momentum, according to the latest ranking of U.S. merchant acquirers by The Strawhecker Group, released this week. Overall, U.S. acquirers processed more than $9 trillion in payment …
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