News

September, 2022

• 9 September

  Aurora Payments Bulks up With Its Deal for the ISO One Payment

  

  Aurora Payments LLC, which specializes in integrated-payments technology for small to medium-size businesses, has acquired One Payment, a Florida-based fintech payment company, for an undisclosed sum. One Payment services more than 6,000 merchants, with a focus on minority-owned small and medium-size businesses. The company processes more than $1 billion in …
• 9 September

  Feeney Will Step Down As CEO of Cantaloupe Following Record Revenue Results

  

  Sean Feeney, the veteran software executive and former U.S. Army officer who took over as chief executive of Cantaloupe Inc. in June 2020, will retire Sept. 30 and will be replaced by Ravi Venkatesan, who has been serving as chief operating officer of the vending-payments specialist since February. The move …
• 9 September

  Lavu Partners With Up ‘n Go; BofA’s Payments Data And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/9/22

  

  Lavu, a payments-technology provider specializing in restaurants, said it is partnering with Up ‘n Go, a vendor of contactless-payment technology based on QR codes, for pay-at-table checkouts.Data from the Bank of America Institute indicate overall consumer spending seen by the big bank in August was up 13% over the same month in …
• 8 September

  Fraud’s Long Shadow Prompts Socure to Enhance Its Identity Verification Solution

  

  In an effort to combat the rise of financial crimes, such as fraud, Socure Inc. has enhanced its know your customer (KYC) identity-verification solution. Socure says the update gives customers stronger tools—such as reason codes and field-validation intelligence, which tests the results of machine-learning models against live data—to verify the …
• 8 September

  Early Warning And Its Zelle Network Celebrate Five Years of Rising P2P Volume

  

  Underscoring the rapid growth of digital payments between individuals, the Zelle Network early Thursday celebrated five years in business with numbers showing it has processed more than 5 billion transactions worth almost $1.5 trillion. In that time, almost 1,700 banks and credit unions have added Zelle to their mobile apps, …
• 8 September

  Zelle’s Big Results; Square’s Canada Gambit And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/8/22

  

  Block Inc.’s Square unit announced it has integrated accounting software from Sage into its point-of-sale software in Canada.A fintech called DailyPay launched a Visa-branded card called Friday that allows users to access earned pay before payday. The card is issued by The Bancorp Bank.Insurance-industry payments network ePayPolicy launched CheckMate, a facility that converts paper checks into …
• 7 September

  Shift4 Ups Its Game As Rivalry Gets Intense in the Restaurant POS Market

  

  Shift4 Payments Inc., which has built a large client base in the hotel and hospitality market, made a bid for greater share in the highly competitive restaurant POS market Tuesday with the introduction of SkyTab POS, a modular, Android-based software application that combines back-end functionality and point-of-sale capabilities in a …
• 7 September

  Eight Embedded-Payments Players Issue a ‘Bill of Rights’ to Bolster Industry Ethics

  

  Eight companies involved in the rapidly expanding industry of weaving payments capability into business software have announced an “Embedded Payments Bill of Rights” to stress ethical practices for the young industry. More companies will join these eight very soon, says Todd Ablowitz, co-chief executive and co-founder of Denver-based Infinicept, one …
• 7 September

  Paysafe Bets on Iowa And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/7/22

  

  Paysafe Ltd. announced a link to mobile sportsbook ClutchBet that will allow Paysafe’s Skrill USA digital wallet and Paysafecash digital-cash platform to support online payments for ClutchBet’s Iowa sportsbook.Payments platform Spreedly launched a payments-orchestration capability for marketplaces and other merchant aggregators. Payments orchestration manages transactions arriving from various gateways and by means of …
• 6 September

  As The Value of Crypto Plummets, So Do Installations of Crypto ATMs

  

  After riding a strong growth wave in 2021, installations of specialized ATMs that allow users to convert their local currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, into cryptocurrencies have cooled off considerably in 2022. Through August, just 5,000 cryptocurrency ATMs have been installed globally this year, bringing the total to more …