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Deployment of cryptocurrency ATMs in 2022 significantly lags the pace seen last year, and one factor hastening the slowdown is increased regulatory scrutiny, sources say. Crypto ATMs are specialized kiosks that allow consumers to purchase Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies using cash or a debit card. Increasingly, regulators in several countries …
September, 2022
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20 September
Second Thoughts On Gun Code And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/20/22
The Wall Street Journal reported that Republican attorneys general for 23 states have warned American Express Co., Mastercard Inc., and Visa Inc. to stop their effort to create a merchant code for gun stores, alleging the effort could result in a mishandling of consumer data and would fail in its purpose of preventing gun …
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19 September
Flexbase Technologies Brings Buy Now, Pay Later To B2B Transactions
Seeking to carve out a slice of business-to-business sales, Flexbase Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based fintech that provides financing technology to businesses, has launched a buy now pay later app for the B2B market. The app, called Flexbase Pay, provides a fresh twist on the traditional net-60 credit terms in …
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19 September
The Credit Card Industry Faces a Cardholder Issue on Top of Durbin’s Routing Threat
As the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates for what would be the fifth time this year, U.S credit card holders are already feeling the squeeze. Some 60% of all cardholders are not only in debt to the issuer, they have been in debt for a year or more, …
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19 September
Netcetera and Mastercard And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/19/22
Netcetera, a provider of digital-payments software, has joined Mastercard Engage, the card company’s global partner network.Canada-based payments provider OTT Pay Inc. has expanded to the U.S. market to offer a cross-border payments platform for global e-commerce merchants.Technologies such as smart phones and the Internet will drive digital payments volume to $19.89 trillion …
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16 September
Block’s Cash App Expands Its Merchant Reach in a Deal With Adyen
Adyen Inc. has become the first third-party processor to offer Block Inc.’s Cash App mobile wallet to merchants. The news comes hard on the heels of reports earlier this month that Block had opened its Cash App wallet for payments to e-commerce merchants outside the Square seller network. Square is …
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16 September
NCR To Split into Two Companies And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/16/22
NCR Corp.’s board approved a plan to split the company into two publicly traded entities, one concentrating on digital commerce and the other on ATMs. The move is expected to take place at the end of next year.Warehouse-store chain BJ’s Wholesale Club said it will accept SNAP EBT payments across all of its …
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15 September
The CFPB’s Buy Now, Pay Later Report Offers a Regulatory Outline, But No Sweeping Overhaul
Long anticipated, a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers suggestions on how regulation might aid the buy now, pay later industry, but doesn’t recommend a wholesale review of its practices. Among the risks outlined in the “Buy Now, Pay Later: Market trends and consumer impacts” report, released Thursday, are …
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15 September
Dwolla And MX Aim at a Broader Approach to Open Banking
The open-banking platform MX Technologies Inc. has become the latest partner in Dwolla Inc.’s Secure Exchange solution. Through the partnership, which builds on the two companies’ existing relationship, digital-payments fintech Dwolla will be able to offer clients and reseller partners it has in common with MX access to account-verification services …
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15 September
POPcodes And Arcum Take on ISO Attrition Rates with Targeted Messaging
Having made a sale, independent sales organizations and merchant acquirers are loath to lose merchants to a competitor but they must contend with this turnover, called attrition, every day. POPcodes Inc., a smart point-of-sale terminal service provider, and Arcum Partners, an artificial intelligence firm, say they are working on reducing …
