Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the agency will begin to identity potential “interpretive guidance or rules to issue with the goal of ensuring that Buy Now, Pay Later firms adhere to many of the baseline protections that Congress has already established for credit cards.” This …
September, 2022
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14 September
Fiserv’s Clover Will Install 1,000+ Devices Across Three New Orleans Venues
The trend toward cashless sports stadiums continues to roll like a juggernaut. ASM Global, a provider of convention-venue management and event strategy and producer of entertainment events, is installing more than 1,000 point-of-sale devices from Fiserv Inc.’s Clover Sport unit across three New Orleans sports and entertainment venues. The three …
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14 September
A Lack of Payment Choices Figures in the Reasons Why Online Shoppers Walk Away
An absence of such payment features as one-click checkout and alternative payment methods at shopping sites is contributing to an overall cart-abandonment rate for online merchants that came to 75.7% of carts initiated in the year through March, according to a study released late Tuesday. The report, from Coresight Research …
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14 September
Bottomline Acquires Nexus Systems And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/14/22
Payments-technology provide Bottomline announced it has acquired Nexus Systems, a vendor of payments-automation software the real-estate and property-management sector. Terms were not disclosed.Payments provider Stax launched Stax Bill, a service that provides automated billing software. It had been known as Fusebill, a company that Stax acquired in 2021.Loyalty network Engage People said it partnered with FreedomPay to …
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13 September
NewStore Becomes the Latest Processor to Offer Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone
NewStore Inc., a payments-platform provider specializing in mobile transactions, has become the latest processor to roll out Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone solution to its merchants in the United States. The payment option, which allows merchants to accept Apple Pay and other contactless payments by using an iPhone …
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13 September
Merchants United Picks AI Service for Statement Analysis
In a move to automate much of the task of analyzing merchant statements, Merchants United LLC said it will use nRoad Inc.’s platform, which analyzes unstructured data in an effort to extract useful information from it. Charleston, S.C.-based Merchants United said the technology will help its bottom line because it …
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13 September
Worldpay for Platforms Debuts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/13/22
The big processor FIS Inc. launched Worldpay for Platforms, a service that lets software providers speed up access to FIS’s Worldpay processing unit while onboarding small and medium-size merchants.PayMyTuition, a payments platform for colleges and universities, launched a cashiering module that lets schools set up multiple cashier stations to process campus payments …
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12 September
Bread Teams Up With Marqeta to Strengthen Its BNPL Hand
Seeking to beef up its buy now, pay later offering, Bread Financial on Monday launched the Bread Pay One-Time Use Card, a virtual credit card that allows consumers to pay for purchases in four installments. The card, which will be issued by Marqeta Inc., can be used by consumers for …
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12 September
The Card Networks’ Move on Gun Data Raises As Many Questions As Answers
The decision over the weekend by three of the nation’s largest payments networks to introduce a new category code for gun shops could raise more questions for the payments industry than answers. The move by American Express Co., Mastercard Inc., and Visa Inc. would for the first time create a …
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12 September
JPMorgan Acquires Renovite And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/12/22
J.P. Morgan announced it has agreed to acquire Renovite Technologies Inc., a payments-technology company based in California, to help modernize the bank’s merchant-acquiring platform. Terms were not announced.The Western Union Co. announced it has acquired Te Enviei, a digital wallet based in Brazil, in an effort to introduce expanded Western Union services …