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Lavu, a payments-technology provider specializing in restaurants, said it is partnering with Up ‘n Go, a vendor of contactless-payment technology based on QR codes, for pay-at-table checkouts.Data from the Bank of America Institute indicate overall consumer spending seen by the big bank in August was up 13% over the same month in …

Block Inc.’s Square unit announced it has integrated accounting software from Sage into its point-of-sale software in Canada.A fintech called DailyPay launched a Visa-branded card called Friday that allows users to access earned pay before payday. The card is issued by The Bancorp Bank.Insurance-industry payments network ePayPolicy launched CheckMate, a facility that converts paper checks into …

A study of fraud losses in European countries by FICO indicates the United Kingdom cut losses by 49 million pounds last year, the most of any European country, according to the 2021 European Fraud Map from FICO, a predictive-analytics company.Checkout-technology provider Bolt launched Checkout Links, which it says enables consumers to check out …

Grocers and home-improvement retailers may have something to take pride in. These two merchant categories are among the most improved in terms of managing their gift card programs. That’s the insight from the fifth 2022 Merchant Gift Card Omnicommerce Evaluation–U.S. Edition released by Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. The rankings of …

First National Bank of Omaha Tuesday gave the trend of virtual card issuing a boost with the launch of Bend, a suite of embedded open, application programming interfaces that enable the integration of financial services, such as customized virtual cards, into existing environments. Brands can use Bend to roll out …

While the Federal Reserve mulls the concept of a national digital dollar, private-sector actors are working toward the same end. The Digital Dollar Project early Wednesday launched what it calls a Technical Sandbox Program in an effort, it said, to help advance understanding of the technical requirements undergirding a central …

Pet Supplies Plus, an operator or franchisor of more than 600 pet stores in North America, chose Adyen NV to process online and in-store payments.Plug’n Play Technologies, a provider of e-commerce technologies, said it has implemented a platform from Authvia that allows stores to request and receive payments via messaging, text, and chat services.Mercury …

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides low-income families with benefits to supplement their food budget, suffered a nationwide outage on Sunday, according to news reports. The cause of the outage, which reportedly affected millions of recipients, is unknown. On Sunday several state agencies that help the U.S. Department …

To make modern fraud detection technology more accessible to community banks, Jack Henry & Associates Inc. late Thursday announced plans to launch early next year Financial Crimes Defender, a cloud-native platform for detecting fraud and other suspicious account activity that can hurt consumer’s financial health, as well as financial crimes, such …

Square announced early Tuesday its first integration in the United Kingdom of Clearpay, a buy now, pay later service known as Afterpay outside the U.K. and Europe. Square, the point-of-sale payments unit of San Francisco-based Block Inc., said the latest move is also its first major integration of BNPL in …