ParkMobile LLC said its mobile app will allow students at the University of Wisconsin-Superior to pay for parking at 420 spaces in seven lots on campus.Visa Inc. said it U.S. consumer cardholders now have access to NortonLifeLock, a digital safety service.Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems NV Corp. made several improvements to its APPSos customer relationship management service.NCR …
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The Western States Acquirers Association announced two new board members, Amanda Beam of Humboldt Merchant Services and Glenn Smith of NCR Corp. Also, Scott DeFazio, Fiserv Inc., was elected secretary for 2021 and Jason Putnam, The Independent Bankers Bank N.A., Deborah Camm, SafraPay, and Lane Connor, Fuzse, were reelected as president, vice …
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Fiserv Inc. on Wednesday announced CardFree Cash, a new feature within its CardValet mobile-banking app that allows consumers to facilitate a cash withdrawal from an ATM using their mobile phone. The service is available to financial institutions nationwide. Consumers can use CardValet at 30,000 Diebold Nixdorf and NCR ATMs driven by …
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Payments provider Lightspeed POS Inc. reported total revenue of $57.6 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, up 79% year-over-year. Revenue was $49.3 when excluding the recent acquisitions of payments providers ShopKeep and Upserve. The company’s merchant base grew 74% year-over-year to 115,000, or 84,000 excluding the acquisitions, up from 66,000.Fiserv Inc. and the Inclusive Innovation …
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Neobank First Boulevard will test a suite of crypto application programming interface tools as part of Visa Inc.’s digital-currency strategy, Visa announced Wednesday. And Uphold Inc., a platform for digital wallets and cryptocurrency trading, has acquired Optimus Cards UK Ltd. and intends to issue crypto-enabled debit cards in Europe on …
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The FedNow real-time payment service will launch commercially in 2023, the Federal Reserve said, narrowing the launch date from the 2023-24 timing it has projected since announcing the project in 2019.Fuel retailer Valero Energy Corp. said it is working with payments-technology provider P97 Networks to launch a mobile app that allows users to activate …
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Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive of Shift4 Payments Inc. and an experienced pilot, will command Inspiration4, the world’s first civilian space flight, scheduled for the fourth quarter and mounted in collaboration with SpaceX. Isaacman is also donating $100 million to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which will have two …
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Investing in digital account opening, mobile-banking applications, and customer-relationship applications are among bankers’ priorities for digital services in 2021, says a report from Computer Services Inc., a provider of cloud-based financial-services technology. Enabling consumers to open accounts digitally, even after the Covid-19 pandemic subsides, was cited as a top priority …
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With the Federal Reserve’s announcement last week that more than 110 financial institutions and processors have signed up for a pilot of the FedNow real-time payments service, third-party service providers are working to smooth the way for small banks that might otherwise be left on the sidelines. “We’re filling the niche …
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American Express Co. said it is working with its reservation-technology company Resy to encourage cardholders to order out from restaurants. The program includes new dining offers on many AmEx cards.Exactuals LLC, whose PaymentHub platform processes residuals, royalties, and other payments for the entertainment industry, said dollar volume on the platform grew …
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