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The Electronic Transactions Association said Thursday it will take on a bigger role in Canada. The Washington, D.C.-based trade group, which has represented the interests of payments-technology and merchant-acquiring firms before the Canadian government for the past two years, will now also take on liaisons with the card networks and …
March, 2020
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13 March
Eye on Acquiring: Revel Starts Merchant Hardship Fund; SEAA Conference Moves to June
The unprecedented impact of dealing with the coronavirus outbreak encircling the globe has hit close to the payments industry. Several conferences have been postponed or canceled, and one vendor has set up a relief fund for merchants. Point-of-sale system maker Revel Systems Inc. created the Revel Relief Program, which can help …
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13 March
OTG Experience To Use Amazon Go Tech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/13/20
Airport restaurant and retail operator OTG Experience LLC says it will be one of the first retailers to use Amazon.com Inc.’s “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology, the system that powers Amazon’s Amazon Go stores, when it opens a CIBO Express Gourmet Market next week in Terminal C of Newark Liberty International Airport.A technology …
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12 March
Suddenly, Ransomware Is Taking a Heavy Toll on State And Local Governments
As the plague of ransomware continues to roil digital payments and other industries, it turns out state and local governments are proving to be particularly vulnerable. In fact, ransomware attacks on school systems, police departments, city administrative offices, and other governmental agencies are rising fast. Last year, state and local …
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12 March
Eye on Covid-19: Payments Providers Hunker Down As an ATM Group Decries ‘The Scapegoating of Cash’
The electronic-payments industry is settling into a ride-it-out mode as panic selling resumed Thursday on Wall Street over the coronavirus, now deemed a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened down 1,700 points, and most payments stocks went over the cliff with it. In late-morning …
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12 March
NAB Debuts New Compensation Program and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/12/20
Payments provider North American Bancard LLC launched two new compensation programs for sales agents, including a restructured bonus program and a portfolio buyout program that includes an opportunity for qualified sales agents to have a portion of their residuals purchased.Processor Wirecard AG is partnering with point-of-sale credit specialist Klarna AB to integrate all of …
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11 March
Short-Term Coronavirus Impacts Are Unlikely To Hurt Long-Term Payments Viability, Analysts Say
As consumers and businesses contend with the uncertainty spawned by the coronavirus outbreak, payments companies will feel the effects, perhaps more than they’ve already announced. Though neither of the two larger U.S. card networks—Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc.—have updated their recent revisions to their financial guidance, some analysts suggest the impact …
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11 March
Ex-Twitter Execs Join a $50 Million Funding Round for Payment And Software Provider SpotOn
Fast-growing payment technology and software provider SpotOn Transact Inc. said Wednesday that it raised $50 million in a Series B funding round that included 01 Advisors, an investment firm led by three former Twitter Inc. executives. SpotOn, which says its revenues increased by more than 150% in 2019, will use …
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11 March
Nova Dia Adds Square Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/11/20
Novo Dia Group, a developer of point-of-sale software for electronic benefits transfer and other payments, said it has integrated with Square Inc.’s platform and enhanced its main product, Mobile Market, which it has renamed TotalPay.College payment-processing specialist PayMyTuition said it has developed a service that allows colleges and universities to settle cross-border …
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10 March
Eye on Fraud: ACI’s Self-Adjusting Machine-Learning Model; Consumers’ Fraud Fears
Machine learning is a popular fraud-fighting technology, but models have a tendency to become less effective over time as criminals adjust their tactics. On Tuesday, ACI Worldwide Inc. said it’s taking a crack at that problem with a service that the company says can adjust automatically to changing fraud patterns. …
