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Like a coiled spring, consumer demand is set to explode once social, entertainment, and shopping restrictions are lifted. Retail and hospitality will be the first to benefit as consumers seek to make-up for lost ground. But has Covid left businesses too weak to reap the rewards or has it helped …
September, 2021
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15 September
Visa’s 16 Million SMB Tally and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/15/21
Visa Inc. announced it has helped enable an estimated 16 million small businesses globally for digital payments, reaching 30% of its goal to so enable some 50 million small concerns.The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said it will acquire GreenSky Inc., a provider of payments and loans at the point of sale for more …
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14 September
Capitalizing on Cash App’s Fast-Growing Popularity, Square Launches Cash App Pay
Six years after it shut down its last effort in mobile wallets for merchant payments, Square Inc. on Monday announced it is launching a new payments feature that will let users of its highly popular Cash App pay sellers in-store and online. Cash App Pay, which can be used at …
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14 September
Behind SKUx’s Bid To Turn Coupons Into Digital Currency
In a bid to help brands and retailers counter fraud, counterfeiting, and misredemption losses from coupons, all of which can total more than $100 million annually, fintech SKUx early Tuesday introduced SKUPay. The application allows brands to replace paper and digital coupons with serialized digital offers that have individualized tracking …
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14 September
Bot Attacks up 41% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/14/21
Bot attack volumes increased 41% year-over-year in the first half of 2021, according to the latest Cybercrime Report from LexisNexis Risk Solutions.Outseer, an RSA Security LLC company, said its 3-D Secure technology has processed $100 billion in transactions to date in 2021. It also released its third quarter “Fraud & Payments …
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13 September
TransUnion Beefs up Its Identity Technology As Online Transactions Explode
As digital commerce continues to proliferate globally, the need for identity-resolution technology has grown exponentially. Credit-reporting giant TransUnion LLC on Monday strengthened its hand in that capability with the announcement it is acquiring Neustar Inc. for $3.1 billion. TransUnion will finance the deal with a combination of cash and debt. …
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13 September
Numbers From Mastercard And Visa Indicate Growing Momentum for Consumer Spending
It’s more than 100 days until Christmas, but forecasts for the 2021 holiday shopping season are already rolling in. Mastercard Inc., in its SpendingPulse report released Monday, forecasts that U.S. holiday retail spending from Nov. 1 to Dec. 24 will increase 7.4% over 2020 and 11.1% over the same period …
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13 September
SpotOn To Acquire Appetize and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/13/21
Commerce specialists SpotOn Transact LLC said it will acquire Appetize Technologies Inc., a point-of-sale technology provider for the hospitality and entertainment industries. Terms were not disclosed. SpotOn also said it raised $300 million in Series E funding, which it will use to help pay for the Appetize acquisition.Integrated-payments provider EngageSmart LLC announced an initial public …
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10 September
Square Wins a 10-Year Deal To Make Los Angeles’s SoFi Stadium Cashless
The trend of professional sports stadiums toward adopting cashless technology to bring greater operating efficiencies to concession stands and other retail outlets within the venue has taken another leap forward with Square Inc.’s 10-year deal to provide payment and merchant services to Los Angeles’s SoFi Stadium and adjoining Hollywood Park development. …
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10 September
Kayak Adds More Uplift BNPL Options and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/10/21
Travel search engine Kayak Corp. said it will expand its offering of buy now, pay later capability through provider Uplift Inc. to include bookings on the mobile Web and through the Kayak app.In related news, Wisetack, which specializes in buy now, pay later services for home and auto repair, said it raised $45 …
