Kiosks & Ticketing Machines

Shift4 Payments Inc.’s determined push into venue point-of-sale transactions got another win with the announcement the payment company’s products will be used at the Frost Bank Center and Toyota Field venues in San Antonio. The number of Shift4 devices to be used at both locations was not disclosed. The Frost …

Payments provider BlueSnap launched its Channel Partner Program, through which it has signed eight system-integration partnerships in the U.S., Canadian, and U.K. markets. Visa Inc. said it is working with governing entities around the world to help them create digital access to government services for their citizens. Mastercard Inc. announced it has extended its …

Mastercard Inc. unveiled Mastercard Move Commercial Payments, a service to allow banks to support commercial cross-border payments flowing in near real-time. Real-time payments led to more than $1 billion in savings on transaction costs for U.S. businesses and consumers last year, a number forecast to grow to $4.4 billion by 2028, …

Mastercard Inc. said its Identity Attribute Verification service soon will enable issuers to confirm cardholders’ information such as age, date of birth, or address. The initial focus will be select markets in Europe with plans to expand into others in 2025. Expense-management software developer Findity announced its Real Time Card platform, which it …

Rain Technology, a provider a directional-display technology, has developed a solution that aims at reducing the risk of onlookers visually stealing a consumer’s PIN at an ATM. The solution, called ATM Switchable Privacy, enables as little as 0.2% of an ATM screen to be visible outside of a 45-degree viewing …

Bitcoin Depot Inc. has added more than 1,500 merchants across six more states to its BDCheckout program, which allows consumers to load cash into their Bitcoin Depot wallets at participating merchants. The expansion brings the number of BDCheckout merchants to 7,723 in 31 states. The new states into which Bitcoin …

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a lawsuit challenging the Federal Reserve’s 2011 debit card cap as too high can move forward. The suit, brought in 2021 by a North Dakota truck stop, had been opposed by banks as having been filed too late. Downloads of digital-identity apps will grow 126% worldwide, …

Visa Inc. unveiled Digital Emergency Card Replacement, a service that works on behalf of card issuers to replace lost cards with digital replacements, using text or email. Cardholders can store the replacement card in a digital wallet. Elavon launched Elavon Cloud Payments Interface, an application programming interface aimed at easing digital and …

Contactless payments are forecasted to surge 113% in value by 2029, reaching $15.7 trillion by 2029, up from $7.4 trillion this year, predicts a new report from Juniper Research. Ticketing and soft point-of-sale applications will be significant drivers of this growth, United Kingdom-based Juniper says. “As access becomes more widespread, …

The onset of the covid pandemic spurred deployers and developers to bring contactless technology to the ATM, and now industry organizations are offering guidelines on the matter as deployers look to widen acceptance of contactless cards and mobile devices. Calling contactless technology “table stakes” for most consumers, the Redwood City, …