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The shares of Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. reached all-time highs Wednesday following a report from The Wall Street Journal that the two major card networks plan to raise interchange and network fees in October and April. Visa closed at $246.23 per share, and Mastercard at $413.91. The networks have historically introduced new pricing …
August, 2023
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30 August
Consumers Are Paying Record High Out-of-Network ATM Withdrawal Fees
ATM owners are charging consumers a record high $3.15 per transaction for making out-of-network withdrawals, up slightly from $3.14 a year ago, according to Bankrate.com. The new high is also the 22nd time in the last 25 years that out-of-network fees levied by ATM owners have hit a new high. …
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30 August
Eye on P2P Payments: Hallmark Adds Venmo Gifting; Zelle Second Quarter Volume up 10%
Sending cash with birthday cards in the mail is risky, but now Hallmark Cards Inc.’s service with Venmo makes it easier and presumably safer. The new Hallmark + Venmo line of cards includes a QR code inside the card that recipients scan to receive the funds to their Venmo accounts. …
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30 August
70% Prefer In-Person Shopping And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/30/23
Sixty-three percent of consumers in a survey of U.S., U.K., and German shoppers say they prefer to shop in person rather than online, with 70% of U.S. shoppers saying so. The results, released by payments platform Digital River, stemmed from a canvass of 3,000 consumers across the three countries. Garmin launched its …
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29 August
To Grow Sales, Merchants Are Diversifying Into New Lines of Business, Square Finds
As consumers seek greater value from what they purchase, merchants are responding by diversifying their products and services to know their consumers better and grow sales, research from Square, Block Inc.’s merchant-processing unit, says. One way merchants are engaging consumers on a deeper level is through subscription services, which …
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29 August
Grubhub Deploys Amazon’s Just Walk Out Tech on Campus
Students at Loyola University Maryland are the first to use Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out technology in a Grubhub partnership. The tech enables students, faculty, and staff to shop and walk out with their purchases billed within the app. Funding sources can be a meal plan, account balance, or credit …
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29 August
Snack POS Adds PAX Devices And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/29/23
Restaurant point-of-sale provider Snack POS has agreed to offer EMV terminals from Pax. Soundhound AI Inc., a specialist in artificial intelligence, said it will work with online-ordering platform ChowNow to help restaurants answer and respond to customer calls. Payments provider Nayax Ltd. is working with loyalty-technology platform Giift to enable consumers to convert loyalty …
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28 August
Shift4 Grows Its Sports Portfolio By Signing the NHL’s St. Louis Blues
Shift4 Payments Inc. has expanded its stadium-pay domain by signing a deal with the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues to provide payment processing at the Enterprise Center, the team’s arena, and the adjacent Stifel Theater. Shift4 will also provide software for the Blues’ loyalty program, mobile wallet, and ordering …
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28 August
Eye on Wallets: BMO’s Virtual Card Move; Startup Tezro Deploys a Wallet
Digital wallets continue to find a foothold in payments. The latest entry is BMO Commercial Bank’s debut of Extend, a virtual card service for its app. And startup Tezro launched a digital wallet aimed at integrating banking, payments, and shopping through messaging apps consumers already use. BMO Commercial Bank, a …
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28 August
VSoft’s Real-Time Pidgin Integration And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/28/23
VSoft Corp., a specialist in financial-services technology, said its core-processing and digital-banking platforms are processing real-time transactions through an integration with instant-payments provider Pidgin. Payments providers ACI Payments and Link2Gov Corp. have been awarded Internal Revenue Service contracts worth $2.07 billion to support credit and debit card payments for taxes and user …
