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Paysafe Ltd. entered the mobile sports-betting market in Arkansas with a partnership with BetSaracen, a sportsbook app offered by Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff, Ark. The partnership will start with BetSaracen’s integration of Paysafe’s Skrill USA digital wallet.The technology company Bushel launched a digital-payment platform to replace paper checks in transactions …
June, 2022
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29 June
Merchants And Issuers Are Pouncing on Inflation—But With Dueling Results
Price inflation is rising at its fastest rate since the early 1980s, and that’s prompting dueling releases from both foes and advocates of card interchange, the fee merchants pay when consumers use credit and debit cards. Merchant groups have long inveighed against interchange—also referred to as “swipe fees”—as a cost …
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29 June
FIS Launches Guaranteed Payments, a Service It Says Boosts Approvals And Cuts Fraud
FIS Inc. early Wednesday announced a platform it says will make the big processor the first to combine higher approval rates for e-commerce merchants with relief from financial liability for chargebacks stemming from fraudulent transactions. Information was not immediately available regarding whether the new capability carries fees for merchants using …
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29 June
How the Chip Shortage Is Prompting Payments Players to Adopt a Variety of Workarounds
After more than two years, payments providers are still reeling from the chip shortage. Indeed, lead times for chips used in POS terminals and credit cards can be as long nine months, compared to six months a year ago, says Stewart Watterson, a strategic analyst for Aite-Novarica. Pre-pandemic, lead times …
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29 June
Contactless Booms On Campuses And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/29/22
Transact Campus Inc., a specialist in mobile identity and payments for colleges, announced students have conducted more than 100 million contactless mobile-wallet transactions since the company’s start less than three years ago.TenureX, a platform founded in 2020 to enable correspondent-banking relationships, has added an extension to its Digital Transaction Certificate …
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28 June
Eye on Mastercard: Paysafe Adds Send; PayPal Launches a Cashback Mastercard
To provide merchants in the United Kingdom and Europe with an international and domestic payout service, Paysafe Ltd. is integrating Mastercard Send into its platform. The deal will enable businesses in those regions to send payments to cards, bank accounts, and mobile wallets. Such capabilities are expected to be highly …
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28 June
In a Crowded Market, Oracle Counts on Fixed Pricing to Boost Its New Platform for Restaurants
With restaurants scrambling to launch digital-payment options and a bevy of firms eager to satisfy that demand, the technology giant Oracle Corp. on Tuesday launched its Oracle Food and Beverage Payment Cloud Service. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company bills the new product as standing alone in offering contactless payments and …
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28 June
Blackhawk Makes a Move And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/28/22
Dining-deal Web site Restaurant.com will work with payments provider Blackhawk Network to expand the site’s gift card program via Blackhawk’s online distribution network.SpotOn, a payments provider for restaurants, has been named a preferred technology partner by the New York State Restaurant Association.Amount, a fintech specializing in the rapidly expanding buy now, pay …
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27 June
VividPayment Enters a Crowded Restaurant POS Fray
Competition in the hotly contested restaurant point-of-sale market continues to heat up as vendors transform themselves from payment-device providers to technology hubs. Sausalito, Calif.-based VividPayments LLC became the latest entrant looking to carve out a slice of the market Monday with the launch of Vivid POS, an iOS- and Android-based …
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27 June
LianLian Global Launches Cross Border Wallet to Iron Out Wrinkles for Small Online Sellers
E-commerce growth exploded during the pandemic, but international sales can be a challenge for small online sellers that confront challenges like currency conversions or sometimes burdensome fees. Early Monday, the cross-border payments firm LianLian Global announced its Cross Border Wallet, aimed at unraveling these challenges particularly for e-commerce merchants selling …