Fraud & Security

Technology firm Orduo has launched a white-label online ordering system for restaurants. The product is aimed at independent sales organizations and value-added resellers.NCR Corp. said its NCR Aloha Cloud point-of-sale system has a refreshed user interface, a small handheld device, and next-day funding of deposits.Routable, a business-payments platform aimed at mass payouts, launched …

With some fast and near-instant payments services and apps already available, and more coming, it turns out fear of fraud, reluctance to manage multiple apps, and ignorance about the services are consumers’ biggest hurdles to adoption. Approximately 40% of U.S. consumers are wary of using faster-payments options overall, according to …

Payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. reported first-quarter revenue of $153.2 million, up 35% year-over-year.PayBright said it will provide installment payments to passengers using CheapOair.ca, an online travel agency.Travel platform Agoda said it now offers interest-free credit card installment payments on its booking platform in a partnership with Visa Inc.E-commerce fraud protection provider Signifyd said it …

Apartment-rental platform Livly said tenants can make rent payments in cryptocurrency through the Livly Resident Mobile App. Landlords will be paid in U.S. dollars.Banking-technology provider Jack Henry & Associates said consumers and businesses will be able to access cryptocurrency trading through the company’s Banno Digital Platform. Jack Henry is partnering with NYDIG, a crypto …

Large retailers that use Fiserv Inc. payments-acceptance technology can add loyalty functions via a new agreement between Fiserv and loyalty-technology provider Exchange Solutions.The global standards body EMVCo said it is developing an EMV Contactless Kernel Specification for contactless payment acceptance around the world. The new specification will take the place of the more than …

There’s a bit of apparent good news when it comes to chargebacks. The chargeback-to-transaction ratio decreased from 1.94% in 2020 to 1.52% in 2021, and is also down from the remarkable 3.76% seen in 2017. That’s according to the fourth annual “The Year in Chargebacks Report” from Midigator LLC, a …

Against a background of emerging real-time payments and steady growth in automated clearing house transactions, The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC is working to mask those transfers with a technology the payment card business has used for years—tokenization. The job is enormous. “We’re just starting—it’s going to take time,” says …

Processor Fiserv Inc. announced it is adding buy now, pay later services from Affirm Inc. to its Carat operating system. Affirm joins Bread, Synchrony, and Zip as current providers. Affirm said its service will be the first fully-integrated BNPL provider with Carat.Payments provider Rapyd Financial Networks Ltd. launched Virtual Accounts, intended to allow businesses anywhere globally …

Buy now, pay later provider Afterpay said retailer Rite Aid now accepts the installment payment option online and intends to offer it in-store in coming months.MoneyGram International Inc. rebutted claims by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that the company is a “repeat offender” with respect to “consumer harm,” citing the fact that the …

Global Payments Inc. Monday morning reported continued recovery from the pandemic’s impact along with new developments the Atlanta-based company says will deepen its ventures in buy now, pay later, cryptocurrency, and support for banks overseas. Global chief executive Jeff Sloan also said the processor has exited its operations in Russia in …