News

September, 2019

• 9 September

  Five Years On, Is Apple Pay Ready To Bloom At Last?

  

  Five years ago, Apple Inc. laid claim to offering one of the first smart phone-based mobile-payment services, and now some observers say Apple Pay, with an estimated 43% of iPhone owners using the service, may be poised to score a breakthrough. Apple Pay was announced with great fanfare Sept. 9, …
• 9 September

  USAT Gets Nasdaq Extension and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/9/19

  

  The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC granted an extension to USA Technologies Inc. allowing the provider of vending-machine payments technology more time to file financial statements. The new deadline is Sept. 23.Everlink Payment Services Inc., a payments provider in Canada, expanded deployment of the UP Payments Risk Management platform to eScore, Everlink’s machine-learning antifraud service. …
• 9 September

  COMMENTARY: Why Software is Eating Payments (Part 2)

  

  As the payment-facilitator model matures, hundreds of thousands of fintech and software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies worldwide are realizing they can provide a better customer experience and increase revenues and valuation by becoming a payment facilitator (PF). We’re seeing companies spanning every imaginable software vertical take over their payments business.  Companies like …
• 6 September

  Fiserv Debuts Contactless POS Tech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/6/19

  

  Fiserv Inc. said its First Data unit, together with Visa Inc. and Samsung Electronics, is demonstrating a new software-based point-of-sale technology that allows an everyday mobile device to accept contactless payments from contactless cards or phones or wearables equipped with near-field communication. A pilot of the technology is set for Poland …
• 6 September

  COMMENTARY: Why Software is Eating Payments (Part 1)

  

  In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote his now-famous article, Software is Eating the World, which predicted that software companies would “take over large swaths of the economy.” Due to the wide adoption of broadband, mobile, and cloud-computing technology, Andreessen pointed out that the ingredients were in place for a huge boom …
• 5 September

  Stripe Gets Into Merchant Cash Advances With Stripe Capital

  

  The big online merchant processor Stripe Inc. on Thursday introduced Stripe Capital for its U.S. merchants, thus joining competitors such as Square Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc. in providing financing for its merchants. “Stripe Capital makes it easy for Internet businesses to get the funds they need, when they need …
• 5 September

  A Security Flaw Lets Hackers Control Traffic on Android Smart Phones, Researcher Says

  

  Cyber threat intelligence provider Check Point Research disclosed this week what it says is a flaw in some Android smart phones that enables hackers to send bogus messages that trick users into entering malicious settings that could, among other things, route traffic through a proxy server controlled by the hacker. …
• 5 September

  Digital River’s WordPress Plugin and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/5/19

  

  Digital River Inc. said it made an e-commerce plugin for WordPress users available. Among its features, the plugin enables payment processing, PCI compliance, and fraud screening.Puerto Rico-based payment processor Evertec Inc. said it will donate $100,000 for disaster relief in the Bahamas, which have been racked by Hurricane Dorian.Compulocks Brands Inc. released a …
• 4 September

  U.S. Merchants Enabled 600,000 New Locations for Chip Card Acceptance in 2019’s First Half

  

  U.S. merchants added 600,000 locations for EMV chip card acceptance in 2019’s first six months, and Visa issuers cranked out an additional 10 million EMV payment cards, according to new figures from Visa Inc. In its latest update on the U.S. conversion from magnetic-stripe payment cards to the EMV chip …
• 4 September

  USA Technologies Seeks Another Deadline Extension for Filing Late Reports; Shares Plunge

  Already nearly a year late in filing the first of several overdue financial reports and with its stock facing delisting, vending machine payments provider USA Technologies Inc. on Wednesday reported it has asked The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC for yet another extension to file required documents. The delay request is …