North American shoppers are notorious for their devotion to plastic. Credit cards remain the leading consumer payment method across the Continent today. However, mobile-payment methods are slowly revolutionizing the way they pay. In a recent consumer-behavior survey by Worldpay from FIS, 56% of respondents admitted they believed smart phones will …
Read More »Lightspeed’s Revenue Jumps 51% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/6/20
Payments provider Lightspeed POS Inc. reported revenue jumped 51% year-over-year in the June quarter to $36.2 million. Its net loss widened to $20.1 million from $9.1 million. Total gross payment volume increased 17% to more than $5.4 billion.Lightspeed also announced the U.S. availability of Lightspeed Capital, a financing service for merchants.Payments provider ACI Worldwide …
Read More »Green Dot Starts to Realize the Fruits of Its New CEO’s Insistence on Keeping Its Bank
Green Dot Corp. may be starting to show the fruits of new chief executive Dan Henry’s insistence on holding on tightly to the company’s bank and making it a linchpin of his strategy. The Provo, Utah-based institution, which Green Dot acquired in 2010, is key to three major card and …
Read More »E-Commerce Helps Buoy FIS as Merchant Volumes Post Positive Growth Rates Again
FIS Inc. had only begun to digest the massive processor Worldpay, which it acquired in July last year, when the global Covid-19 virus broke out, leaving the company on Tuesday to report a challenging second quarter marked by a significant hit to its newly integrated merchant-processing business. Still, given the …
Read More »Money 20/20 Canceled, Returning in 2021 and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs from 8/4/20
Money 20/20, set for Oct. 25-28 in Las Vegas, has been canceled. Dates for the 2021 event are Oct. 24-27 in Las Vegas, which will mark the 10th anniversary of the payments conference. Citing the impact pf the Covid-19 pandemic, organizers also canceled Money 20/20 Europe.Oto Analytics Inc.’s commerce platform …
Read More »Global Payments To Use AWS for Issuer Services and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/3/20
Global Payments Inc. announced a multiyear agreement with Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services to offer cloud-based issuer processing to financial institutions globally. AWS services in the deal will include storage, compute, database, security, analytics, and machine learning. For the second quarter, Global reported $1.52 billion in adjusted net revenue, down 14% year-over-year compared …
Read More »Apple’s Mobeewave Deal Could Turn iPhones Into No-Dongle POS Devices—Just Not Right Away
Apple Inc. has reportedly acquired technology that enables smart phones equipped with near-field communication to act as point-of-sale devices with no other hardware. In the deal, news of which broke as the weekend began, the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker has bought Mobeewave Inc., a 9-year-old technology firm based in Montreal. …
Read More »Debit And Services Help Mastercard Stay Afloat During the Pandemic
Like its bigger rival Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc. managed to remain profitable during the pandemic-ravaged second quarter and in recent weeks has been seeing improving transaction trends. Mastercard on Thursday reported total U.S. purchase volume of $405 billion in the quarter ended June 30, down 5% from $427 billion a …
Read More »Galileo Inks Plaid Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/30/20
Payments-technology provider Galileo Financial Technologies LLC announced an integration with data aggregator Plaid Inc. Through Plaid’s links to financial institutions, the tie-in will allow Galileo clients to more readily authorize users for automated clearing house transactions. Visa Inc. announced in January a deal to acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. Social Finance Inc. (SoFi) agreed in April …
Read More »PayPal Plots a POS Course With QR Codes As It Comes Off the ‘Strongest’ Quarter in Its History
PayPal Holdings Inc. has made big plays for the physical point of sale before, but on Wednesday the San Jose, Calif.-based company unveiled what could be its biggest strategy yet to capture transactions at the cash register. Top executives said an arrangement under way with CVS Pharmacy to run PayPal …
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