Tyler Technologies, a specialist in government services and payments, said it will acquire Rapid Financial Solutions, a provider of payments, card issuance, and digital disbursement services, for $68 million. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.Prepaid card specialist InComm Payments has acquired The Card Network, a gift card issuer based …
Read More »Zip Adds Physical BNPL Card To Its Portfolio
Zip Co. Ltd. expanded its buy now, pay later portfolio Wednesday with the roll out of the Zip Card. Cardholders can use the card, issued by WebBank, a Salt Lake City-based industrial bank, to make purchases in store and online and pay off those purchases in four installments. During the …
Read More »Events.com Snaps up Brown Paper Tickets And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/26/22
Events.com announced it has agreed to acquire Brown Paper Tickets, a payments processor for ticketing. Terms were not announced.PayPal Holdings Inc. said Amazon.com Inc. has added its Venmo digital wallet as a payment method on Amazon.com and in the Amazon mobile app. Venmo on Amazon will be available to U.S. customers by Nov. 25 …
Read More »Adyen Marks Banking Debut And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/24/22
Payments provider Adyen NV launched two new services—Capital and Account, offering to small businesses cash advances, business bank accounts, and card-issuing capability.Payment platform GoCardless launched Protect+, an anti-fraud service offering payor authentication, fraud monitoring, and chargeback challenges.Payments-technology provider Payoneer said it has collaborated with e-commerce platform WooCommerce to enable Payoneer Checkout via a plug-in for small …
Read More »Signifyd Tackles Authorization And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/21/22
Fraud prevention services provider Signifyd launched Fearless Payments, a suite of services to help payment service providers increase authorization rates. Among its features are automated risk decisions, authorization rate optimization, and chargeback guarantees on all approved orders.Diebold Nixdorf Inc. announced it will integrate fraud-prevention technology from Featurespace into its Vynamic payments-processing platform.CSG Forte, …
Read More »Eye on BNPL: Certegy Ties in a Rewards Network, And Klarna Launches a Search App
The buy now, pay later trend, which soared into prominence as a consumer-payments option during the Covid pandemic, continues to gain momentum. Certegy Payment Solutions LLC on Monday said it is working with a Tempe, Ariz.-based Ionia and its rewards platform to offer a BNPL service leveraging Certegy’s risk-management technology. …
Read More »SpotOn Beefs up Restaurant Services And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/19/22
SpotOn, a payments provider specializing in the restaurant industry, launched Experiences by SpotOn Reserve, a reservation and waitlist platform.Checkout.com launched Fraud Detection Pro, aimed at helping online merchants combat bot attacks, account takeovers, synthetic identities and other newer fraud technologies.Payments provider Paysafe Ltd. said it will support payments for U.S. hotels via a …
Read More »Recurly Adds a Ramp Feature to Its Subscription Pricing Model
Clients using Recurly Inc. to manage their subscription-pricing models have a new feature to use. Recurly on Tuesday launched a ramp-pricing model that enables its clients to dynamically increase or decrease pricing within their subscriptions. This is in addition to the fixed, one-time, usage-based, tiered, volume, stairstep, and hybrid models …
Read More »Pay With Karma Debuts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/17/22
Fintech app Karma launched Pay with Karma, an embedded checkout service that enables for consumers a simplified purchase experience across different retailers with multiple payment options.Ammo Inc., owner of GunBroker.com, an online marketplace for the firearms and shooting-sports industry, said it will launch a proprietary payment-processing platform on or about Jan. 1.Mastercard …
Read More »Samsung Eyes 13 New Markets for Samsung Wallet
Consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics is looking to expand to 13 new markets for its Samsung Wallet service. Announced Friday, the expansion of the digital-wallet platform will more than double its presence from the eight nations where it is already available. Samsung Wallet is the new brand for the combined …
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