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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The PCI Security Standards Council published version 4 of the PCI Data Security Standard. Features of the new standard include, among other changes, updated firewall terminology and a requirement to implement multi-factor authentication for access to the cardholder data environment.Processor Adyen said it is expanding beyond payments to offer embedded financial products, including Adyen …

Payments providers are increasingly resuming business-as-usual as the pandemic eases, but so are criminals. Losses from identity-fraud schemes, in which fraudsters use stolen payment credentials for their own gain, soared 79% last year to $24 billion, according to a study released Tuesday by Javelin Strategy & Research. Moreover, this so-called …

Panini S.p.A., which has been expanding beyond its base in devices for image processing, said early Tuesday the Federal Bureau of Investigation has certified its fingerprint-authentication technology, called BioCred. The scanning technology meets image-quality specifications set by the FBI’s Appendix F standard, said to be the law-enforcement agency’s highest standard …

Two years after the Covid-19 pandemic helped make buy now, pay later loans popular with online shoppers, BNPL remains a highly attractive payment option, according to a study by BNPL provider Sezzle Inc. Of the 1,153 online shoppers surveyed by Sezzle, 60% of BNPL users plan to use BNPL more …

The return of travel following the impact of the pandemic is testing airlines in various ways, not the least of which is their openness to payment methods beyond cards in what for them is a global market. That new emphasis, combined with a need to work with multiple acquirers, is …

The European Union on Thursday advanced legislation to curb the power of tech companies, legislation that would force them to provide more billing options to consumers on their highly popular app stores. In related news, Google and the big music streaming service Spotify this week announced Spotify users with Android …