The payments industry continues to reckon with the myriad ways the pandemic has permanently reshaped how people pay businesses and other people. One key example is how individuals are paying each other compared to just a couple of years ago, and how payment networks are responding. In just the two …
Read More »Capital One Is Likely to Weather Its Loss of the Walmart Card Portfolio
Even if Walmart Inc. is successful in terminating its contract with Capital One Financial Corp. to issue private-label and co-branded cards on the retail behemoth’s behalf, the loss is not likely to have a major impact on Capital One’s business, says a research note from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. The …
Read More »POS Veteran Verifone Launches a Barrage of Cloud-Based Tech for C-Stores
Consumers have been returning to physical stores as the pandemic wanes, and that’s spurring point-of-sale technology providers to bring fresh products to market. The latest example is Verfone Inc., which said Tuesday it is rolling out a panoply of new devices and services for the highly competitive petroleum and convenience-store …
Read More »Visa+ P2P Service in Tests And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/11/23
Visa Inc. announced a pilot for Visa+, a service that allows users to move payments between rival peer-to-peer payments networks. The pilot, set to launch later this year, will begin with transfers between PayPal and Venmo, a PayPal-owned network, but plans are to include P2P services DailyPay, i2c, TabaPay, and Western …
Read More »Domino’s Adds Tap to Order to CarPlay In-Car App
Ordering ahead for a Domino’s pizza from your car just became a little easier for iPhone users with the release Monday of an order-ahead app for CarPlay, the in-car infotainment app from Apple Inc. The Domino’s Pizza Inc. app now enables consumers to Tap to Order or Call to Order …
Read More »Praxis Debuts Card-on-File Option And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/10/23
Payments provide Praxis Tech Ltd. has introduced a service it calls Merchant Initiated Transactions, which allows sellers to leverage a card-on-file option to initiate single-click payments on behalf of customers. GoDaddy Inc., a provider of payments and other services for small business, has released a small-business generative AI prompt library, which offers …
Read More »Kasheesh Launches a One-Time-Use Visa Card to Split In-Store Purchases
Digital-payments platform Kasheesh, which allows consumers to split purchases between debit, credit, and prepaid cards for online purchases, has introduced a one-time-use Visa card to its mobile wallet that can be used at physical stores. The feature, called Mobile Wallet Dashboard, allows users to add their Kasheesh account to their …
Read More »COMMENTARY: How Payments Have Boosted the Customer Experience
When you’re pressed for time, there’s probably a handful of neighborhood stores where you shop regularly. You can depend on them in those hurried moments, whether it’s the small retailer that stocks your favorite items, the local coffee shop that knows just how you like your coffee, or the mobile …
Read More »Stripe Recaps a Strong 2022, Though Growth Has Slowed
While Stripe Inc. did not experience what it terms the “breakneck” growth it enjoyed in 2020 and 2021, the e-commerce payments giant still processed more than $817 billion in total volume in 2022, up 26% from the previous year, the financial services and software-as-a-service company told customers in its annual …
Read More »Square Parent Block Slaps Mastercard And Visa With an Antitrust Suit Over Card Acceptance Costs
In a major case whose effects could ripple widely across the payments industry, Block Inc. has sued Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., alleging the global networks worked together to fix interchange fees paid by Block’s Square operation. Square, which processes card transactions for millions of mostly small sellers, pays interchange …
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