News

February, 2017

• 9 February

  Surging Attacks Driven by Spoofed IDs And Mobile Devices Darken the Security Picture

  

  By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews Security jitters have hit the payments industry, and it’s no wonder. The arrival of new and sophisticated ways to spoof identities, coupled with the rapid rise of mobile usage for banking and payments, has created a minefield for security professionals charged with guarding accounts and the …
• 9 February

  Western Union Looks to the Digital Future After Posting a $355 Million Fourth-Quarter Loss

  

  By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews Westernunion.com, the online and mobile-payment service of The Western Union Co., is still small, but it’s the rising star of the world’s leading wire-transfer company, which posted a $355 million fourth-quarter loss in the wake of a recent $586 million settlement with the federal government over lax …
• 8 February

  E-Commerce Processor Adyen’s Volume Jumps 80% to $90 Billion

  It’s been the winter of chest-thumping for e-commerce payments providers. Amsterdam-based Adyen, which is targeting the U.S. market from its San Francisco office, on Wednesday announced that its worldwide transaction volume jumped 80% last year to hit $90 billion from 2015’s $50 billion. On Tuesday, the secretive Amazon.com Inc. disclosed …
• 8 February

  Financial Institutions Give NACHA an Upbeat Report on Clients’ Usage of Same-Day ACH

  By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews In an early glimpse of how U.S. businesses are using faster payments, the governing body for the automated clearing house issued survey results Tuesday showing that 90% of respondents at surveyed financial institutions report same-day ACH origination volume at or above what they expected. The same …
• 8 February

  Working at a Deliberate Pace, Chase Pay Lines up HMSHost and Parkmobile

  

  By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Chase Pay, the nascent mobile-payments service from banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co., has added two more merchants to its roster. HMSHost, a Bethesda, Md.-based dining-services company specializing in transportation locations, and Parkmobile LLC, an Atlanta-based parking company, will begin accepting order-ahead capability based on functionality developed …
• 8 February

  BluePay Makes Portfolio Acquisition and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • Independent sales organization BluePay Processing LLC announced its purchase of the merchant-services portfolio of VersaPay Corp., a business-to-business payments provider. Terms were not disclosed. • Merchant processor Total Merchant Services introduced Groovv mPOS, a mobile point-of-sale device enabling EMV and NFC contactless payments, as well as online transactions. The device links to smart …
• 8 February

  PayPal Plans To Raise Prices on Various Cross-Border Transactions in March

  By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews PayPal Holdings Inc. on Wednesday announced updates to its user agreements for consumers and merchants, and among the numerous changes are 0.5% price increases for several types of transactions involving U.S. sellers and foreign buyers. Beyond the price hikes, other changes include a new non-discrimination clause for …
• 7 February

  How Many Consumers Used Amazon Payments in 2016? Thirty-Three Million, Amazon Says

  

  By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews One-third of the payments that consumers made using Pay with Amazon in 2016 were on a mobile device, e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. revealed Tuesday. Pay with Amazon enables consumers to use their Amazon wallets to pay for merchandise on other retailer’s Web sites. In a rare release …
• 7 February

  Congress Takes Aim at the CFPB’s Pending Prepaid Card Rule

  

  By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews The new Republican-controlled Congress and Republican President Donald Trump want fewer government regulations, and the politically vulnerable now that Republicans have full control of Washington. Republicans say the CFPB has imposed excessive regulations on the financial-services industry and that its director, currently Richard Cordray, is not accountable …
• 7 February

  FIS Posts 4Q Revenue Growth and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • Processor Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) reported its revenue grew 30.4% in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, to $2.4 billion, from $1.9 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. Net earnings from continuing operations increased to $207 million from $105 million. For the year, revenue jumped 40.1%, to …