Wednesday , March 19, 2025

Marketing

Affinipay’s Tap-to-Pay Play And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/6/24

AffiniPay, a specialist in payments for professional offices, launched a refreshed version of its In-Person-Payments service featuring new payments devices that include tap-to-pay functionality. Fiserv Inc.’s Small Business Index for January remained unchanged from December at 138. Year-over-year sales grew 1.7%, down from December’s 2.6% rate. The Index, introduced in January, measures …

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Eye on POS: CardFlight Enables Mobile Invoicing; Clover Sport Hits the Ice

Point-of-sale specialist CardFlight Inc. extended the ability to create invoices to its SwipeSimple app, a feature that was previously only available via the Web version. Meanwhile, Fiserv Inc. says the Prudential Center, where the National Hockey League New Jersey Devils play, will adopt Clover Sport point-of-sale hardware and software. New …

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PayRange Licensing Victor And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/31/24

KioSoft Technologies has agreed to license technology from PayRange Inc. in a deal that could exceed $62 million in value over a 10-year period. The agreement stems from a settlement of a four-year dispute in which PayRange, a provider of payments technology for the laundry and vending industries, alleged KioSoft infringed its …

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Huntington’s Secure Card And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/30/24

The Huntington National Bank launched a secured credit card offering 1% cashback rewards and no annual fee. Secured cards require cardholders to make a one-time, refundable deposit to back activity on the card. Mastercard Inc. and BOK Financial Corp. expanded their agreement making Mastercard the exclusive payments network in BOK’s debit and …

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PayPal Ventures Invests in Mesh Connect—With Its Stablecoin

PayPal Holdings Inc. has put its new stablecoin to work as an investment tool with a PayPal USD investment in Mesh Connect Inc., an embedded-finance platform. Announced Monday, the stake from PayPal Ventures, the digital wallet’s investment arm, was made almost entirely in PayPal USD, a stablecoin PayPal introduced in …

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Visa Revenue up 9% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/26/24

Visa Inc. reported $8.6 billion in net revenue for its December quarter, up 9% year-over-year, on $3.9 billion in credit and debit card volume, up 7.8%. Apple Inc. announced changes to iOS, Safari, and its App Store to meet European Union rules, including new options on its App Store to use payment …

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PayPal Taps Multiple Updates for Its App And Venmo

A new way of shopping using the PayPal app and related services is in the offing. Announced Thursday, the update includes a one-click guest checkout experience, digital receipts PayPal calls Smart Receipts, a revised offers platform, and improvements to business profiles for Venmo, its social peer-to-peer payments service. The moves …

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Worldpay’s Gateway Ranking And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/25/24

Payments research and consultancy firm TSG conferred its Best Performing Gateway award on Worldpay, with Elavon’s Fusebox in second place. The firm monitors gateway performance through its Global Experience Monitoring platform, which monitors credit card transactions across 30 locations around the world. Digital workflow provider ServiceNow announced a five-year agreement with Visa Inc. to …

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Eye on BNPL: Klarna Debuts a Subscription Service; PublicSquare Enlists Credova

Klarna AB, a buy now, pay later provider, is entering the subscription arena with the U.S. launch of Klarna Plus. For $7.99 a month, Klarna Plus enables eligible consumers to earn double rewards points on their purchases, pay no service fee when using Klarna at merchants outside of the Klarna …

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Eye on E-Commerce: Nuvei Provides an API for Adobe Commerce; Citi Launches Citi Shop

Nuvei Corp. has partnered with Adobe Inc. to provide an application programming interface to Adobe Commerce customers that enables easier access to its platform. The API provides these customers access to more than 680 regional alternative payment methods. In addition to supporting an array of alternative payment methods, Nuvei’s API …

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