Tuesday , January 14, 2025

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Luxury Retailer LVMH Adopts Tap to Pay on iPhone

A handful of U.S. retail outlets owned by luxury-goods retailer LVMH Group will offer Tap to Pay on iPhone later this year, the Paris-based company announced Wednesday. Tap to Pay on iPhone enables merchants to accept contactless payments using a payment-acceptance app and an off-the-shelf iPhone. The service, announced in …

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The CFPB Looks to Define ‘Larger Companies’ for Rulemaking in Payments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is looking at creating a rule to define so-called larger companies in the consumer-payments industry, according to a notice the regulator posted on Tuesday. The rule if established would clarify the CFPB’s supervisory authority with respect to nonbank payments companies, lending more impetus to a …

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Eye on Restaurants: New Gambits From SpotOn, Toast, And Oracle

Few retail markets have rebounded from Covid lockdowns as fast as restaurants have. And few have attracted as much attention from payments companies. No wonder. Sales at what the National Restaurant Association calls “eating and drinking places” in the United States totaled $88.1 billion in April, up 0.6% from March. …

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Mastercard Processing Woes And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/13/23

Mastercard Inc. Monday afternoon said it was looking into reports of problems with processing certain transactions on its network. Both Stripe, a major payments platform, and the U.K. bank Natwest reported issues, though Natwest said the problem had been resolved by day’s end. Prepaid card provider Paysign said it completed issuer certification with …

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Toast Signs Marriott Deal And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/12/23

Restaurant point-of-sale technology provider Toast Inc. has signed an agreement with Marriott International Inc. to make its Toast for Hotel Restaurants product available in the hotelier’s Select service hotels in the United States and Canada. A report from Mastercard Inc. indicates the proportion of cash-only customers in Latin America has dropped from 45% three …

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Nuvei Lands Nonprofit and Government SaaS Provider Sylogist

Sylogist Ltd., a global provider of software-as-a-service to more than 2,000 public-sector customers across the government, nonprofit, and education sectors, has selected Nuvei Corp. as its payments processor. Nuvei will provide Sylogist with payments functionality including support for mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. In addition, Nuvei …

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Six Flags’ Great Adventure Store Adopts Amazon’s Just Walk Out Technology

Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out payment technology is providing checkout-free shopping at Quick Six, a concept store at Six Flags Great Adventure, a Jackson, N.J., theme park. Announced recently, the store uses the Amazon-developed technology that requires consumers to scan a code on their cellphones that is tied to a …

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Estimated Merchant Savings from CCCA? $15 Billion Annually, Says One Researcher

As proponents and adversaries wrangle over the newly resurrected Credit Card Competition Act, a market-research firm has raised by more than one-third its estimate of how much the bill could save U.S. merchants. A year ago, the firm, Atlanta-based CMS Payments Intelligence Inc., calculated the bill would result in $11 …

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Apple Cash Adds Recurring Payments And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/8/23

Apple Cash users will be able to set up weekly, biweekly, or monthly Apple Cash payments in the iOS 17 iPhone software coming this fall, Apple Inc. announced. Users also will be able to present digital IDs stored in Apple Wallet to businesses, such as for age verification. More than 96% …

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Chargebacks911’s Hires Signal Growth as Chargeback Volume Increases

Chargebacks911 is setting the stage for an e-commerce world full of ever-increasing digital payment—and chargebacks, a frequent challenge to management. To help, it is bringing on two payments veterans, one who oversaw merchant acceptance at Apple Pay and another who led merchant services at Bank of America Corp. Eric Hoffman, …

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