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February, 2022

• 28 February

  Australia’s Zip Beefs Up in the U.S. Market With a $355.5 Million All-Stock Deal for Sezzle

  

  Australian fintech Zip Co Ltd. is poised to expand its buy now, pay later services through a definitive agreement to acquire Sezzle Inc. in an all-stock deal that values Sezzle at $355.5 million, or 491 million in Australian dollars (AUS). The deal is expected to significantly expand Zip’s presence in the …
• 25 February

  Phishing Attacks Hit a Record High in the Fourth Quarter, the APWG Says

  

  Phishing attacks in December totaled 316,747, the highest monthly total ever recorded by Anti-Phishing Working Group, (APWG) since it began tracking the cybercrime in 2004. Overall, the number of phishing attacks has tripled from early 2020, when the APWG was observing between 68,000 and 94,000 attacks per month. The APWG, …
• 23 February

  Consumers Say Friction Is a Leading Cause of Late Bill Payments, Especially Online

  

  More than half of consumers in the United States have been late paying a bill in the past 12 months, even if they pay online, but not always for reasons associated with unemployment and financial hardships. For many consumers, late bill payments are a result of friction in the bill-payment …
• 18 February

  With Consumer Payment Habits Changing, Enterprise Retailers Are Investing In Cloud POS Again

  

  During the two years since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, point-of-sale technology for enterprise merchants in the United States has gone from being a low-growth channel for POS solution and hardware providers to one that now presents significant growth opportunities, according to a report from Moody’s Investor Service. Sparking the turnaround …
• 16 February

  As Users Seek More Choices, PayNearMe Adds PayPal And Venmo To Its Bill Pay Platform

  

  Responding to demand from consumers and billers for digital bill-payment options, electronic billing and payment platform provider PayNearMe Inc. on Tuesday announced the addition of PayPal and Venmo to its payment options. A recent study by PayNearMe revealed that 43% of respondents rated the convenience of using PayPal to pay …
• 14 February

  Epos Now’s New App Links U.S. Third-Party Delivery Platforms With Restaurants

  

  With online ordering capabilities now table stakes for restaurants, Epos Now, a London-based provider of cloud-based software, announced Monday it is rolling out its Epos Now Delivery application for restaurants in the United States. The decision to launch Epos Now Delivery in the U.S. market was prompted by the massive …

January, 2022

• 31 January

  Eye On Restaurant POS: Full-Service Eateries Rebound As They Adopt New Payments Tech

  

  Full-service restaurants, one of the hardest-hit merchant segments at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, showed signs of a rebound in 2021, according to research by TouchBistro Inc., a provider of POS and restaurant-management applications. Findings from TouchBistro’s third annual “State of Full-Service Restaurants Report” reveals that 74% of full-service restaurants …
• 28 January

  QR Code Transactions Are on the Rise, But Now So Are Concerns About QR Code Fraud

  

  With the Covid-19 pandemic helping fuel broad adoption of Quick Response codes by merchants for payments and ordering, it was only a matter of time before criminals exploited the contactless technology. Fraudsters are creating fake QR codes that, when scanned, take consumers to a bogus landing page that collects payment …
• 21 January

  The Fed’s Paper on a U.S. Digital Currency Offers Few Signs of How the Regulator Is Leaning

  

  The Federal Reserve Board released a paper Thursday afternoon on the question of a central bank digital currency for the United States, and even though the Fed would play a crucial role in any such venture, observers looking for hints on how the central bank is leaning on the issue …
• 14 January

  Venmo Adds a Gift-Wrap Feature for Users Sending Money on Special Occasions

  

  Peer-to-peer money transfers have become a hyper-competitive market, driving even the best-known providers to seek out an edge. One such idea is to introduce a feature that lets senders add virtual gift-wrapping to payments they’re sending for special occasions, and on Thursday Venmo started rolling out just such a feature. …