Top management at FIS Inc. made it plain Tuesday morning that growth through further acquisitions is a key priority only about 18 months after the company completed its massive buyout of the merchant processor Worldpay. But while the Jacksonville, Fla.-based company still keeps its powder dry for M&A, executives on …
Read More »Mobile Wallet Gains and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/9/21
Consumers continue to show affinity for using mobile wallets for payments with debit-based mobile wallet use growing at 59.6% for the week ending Jan. 31, compared to the week ending Feb. 2, 2020, according to the PSCU Tracking Transaction Trends report. Credit-based mobile wallet use was up 35.7%. The results include the …
Read More »A Multiple-Acquirer Strategy Can Yield Improved Conversion Rates, Study Finds
Merchants that use multiple acquirers may benefit from more than just payment-acceptance resiliency. Some—85%—have seen an increase in their conversion rates, finds a study from Edgar Dunn & Co. commissioned by Naples, Fla.-based ACI Worldwide Inc. In the study, which surveyed 93 merchants and 68 payment-service providers, 43% of the …
Read More »With Google Cloud’s Technology, Global Payments Looks for a ‘Substantially’ Expanded Merchant Base
Global Payments Inc. will move its acquiring technology to Google Cloud and serve as a worldwide merchant acquirer for Google under a sweeping agreement announced Monday morning. The pact will also allow Global’s merchant clients to access a long list of Google Cloud services, ranging from payments to data and …
Read More »Another Campus Adds ParkMobile and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/8/21
ParkMobile LLC said its mobile app will allow students at the University of Wisconsin-Superior to pay for parking at 420 spaces in seven lots on campus.Visa Inc. said it U.S. consumer cardholders now have access to NortonLifeLock, a digital safety service.Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems NV Corp. made several improvements to its APPSos customer relationship management service.NCR …
Read More »Western States Acquirers Names 2021 Leaders and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/5/21
The Western States Acquirers Association announced two new board members, Amanda Beam of Humboldt Merchant Services and Glenn Smith of NCR Corp. Also, Scott DeFazio, Fiserv Inc., was elected secretary for 2021 and Jason Putnam, The Independent Bankers Bank N.A., Deborah Camm, SafraPay, and Lane Connor, Fuzse, were reelected as president, vice …
Read More »Lightspeed’s Revenue Jumps 79% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/4/21
Payments provider Lightspeed POS Inc. reported total revenue of $57.6 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, up 79% year-over-year. Revenue was $49.3 when excluding the recent acquisitions of payments providers ShopKeep and Upserve. The company’s merchant base grew 74% year-over-year to 115,000, or 84,000 excluding the acquisitions, up from 66,000.Fiserv Inc. and the Inclusive Innovation …
Read More »PayPal Registered a Record Year in 2020 And Looks for an Even Bigger 2021
Buoyed by an explosion of e-commerce activity following the onset of Covid-19, PayPal Holdings Inc. last year enjoyed what turned out to be a record year for growth. Now, it looks to roll out a flurry of new services. “We released more products and services in 2020 than in any …
Read More »Payoneer Agrees to a SPAC Merger That Will Take the Company Public
Global e-commerce payments provider Payoneer Inc. announced Wednesday morning it will go public via a merger with a blank-check company, confirming reports about a deal that first emerged last month. In the merger, which values Payoneer at $3.3 billion, the 15-year-old, New York City-based firm becomes the eighth payments-related company …
Read More »FedNow To Launch in 2023 and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/3/21
The FedNow real-time payment service will launch commercially in 2023, the Federal Reserve said, narrowing the launch date from the 2023-24 timing it has projected since announcing the project in 2019.Fuel retailer Valero Energy Corp. said it is working with payments-technology provider P97 Networks to launch a mobile app that allows users to activate …
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