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MagicCube Inc. has chiefly aimed its tap-to-pay technology at small sellers to allow them to take card payments directly on an off-the-shelf mobile device. But on Monday the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company announced a version of its i-Accept platform for enterprise and big-box merchants. To make i-Accept more attractive to …
June, 2022
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7 June
BofA Card Volume up and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/7/22
Total credit and debit card dollar volume for Bank of America Corp. increased 9% in May year-over-year, with credit card volume up 16% and debit volume up 9%, the Bank of America Institute reported.A research report from Aite-Novarica finds what the report calls “excessively high rates” of identity theft, which the report says …
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6 June
Apple Makes It Official: With Apple Pay Later, It’s Jumping With Both Feet Into the BNPL Fray
Apple Inc.’s sneak peek at its iOS16 operating system on Monday included the news that the new version will include Apple’s widely expected entry in the hot buy now, pay later market. Available in the U.S. market, Apple Pay Later will be accepted at all places that take Apple Pay …
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6 June
Canada’s Interac Hits 1 Billion Payments Thanks to Rising Consumer And Business Adoption
High usage rates and increasing adoption by small businesses are the primary factors that have led Interac, Canada’s national debit and account-to-account payment network, to hit a record 1 billion transactions for the 12-month period ended April 30, a 16% increase from the same period a year earlier. A recent …
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6 June
As Sellers Seek out a Broader Payments Array, Trust Payments Adds Acquiring-as-a-Service
Payments-as-a-service and other “as-a-service” technologies have emerged in recent years to package the technology and expertise needed for fintechs to expand their reach and expertise in payments. Now acquiring-as-a-service is stepping onto center stage with news that Fiserv Inc. has agreed to support payments for merchants using Trust Payments Ltd. …
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6 June
LumaPay Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/6/22
Luma Health Inc. debuted LumaPay, which allows patients to pay medical bills via text messages.U.S.-based payments provider FreedomPay said it is working with Network International to provide digital-payment capability to the hospitality industry in the Middle East and Africa region.Canada-based Kapsch TrafficCom announced it has now manufactured 100 million toll-payment transponders, which are used in …
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3 June
Contactless Card Shipments Broke Through the 2 Billion Barrier for the First Time in 2021
Despite a persistent shortage of microchips, global shipments of contactless cards hit the 2-billion mark for the first time in 2021, totaling 2.63 billion for the year, according to the Smart Payment Association, a Munich-based trade group. Propelling the surge was the shipment of an additional 269 million contactless cards …
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3 June
How Square’s Embrace of Apple Could Help Propel a Trend Toward ‘SoftPOS’
Square intrigued the payments industry a decade ago when it emerged to provide small sellers with a simple dongle they could attach to a mobile phone to accept card payments. Now Square says it’s moving to the next step. The company announced Thursday that later this year it will adopt …
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3 June
Huntington Creates Payment-Strategy Unit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/3/22
Huntington Bancshares Inc. said it is establishing a unit within the bank dedicated to payments strategy and investment. Amit Dhingra has been appointed to lead the group as Enterprise Payments Director.A platform called i-payout said it is launching a real-time service for payouts in the U.S. and Canada. Rather than …
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2 June
Shopify Teams With DePay to Bring Token Acceptance To E-Commerce Merchants
The drive to achieve mainstream merchant acceptance of cryptocurrency received a boost Thursday as Shopify Inc. and DePay, a Swiss blockchain payments platform, teamed up to enable consumers to send direct payments to Shopify merchants’ wallets. Shopify will leverage DePay’s blockchain to enable merchants to receive any preferred tokens, with …