News

February, 2017

• 2 February

  Equinox Reseller Adds Equipment and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • Merchant processor CardConnect Corp. unveiled a new release of its CardPoint Mobile app for smart phones and tablets that includes a feature called Catalog that allows businesses to label, price, discount, and categorize their products and services in one place. • Point-of-sale terminal maker Equinox Payments announced that POS-equipment distributor POSDATA added the …
• 2 February

  The New Administration Brings Uncertainty But Also Optimism, Payments Experts Say

  

  By John Stewart@DTPaymentNews The new Trump administration injects much uncertainty into U.S. business, with payments being no exception, but a panel of experts on Thursday said the net result should be positive for at least the acquiring side of the market. “If Hillary Clinton had won, we would have been …
• 2 February

  Visa’s Globetrotting New CEO Inherits a Solidly Profitable Company

  

  By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews As the new chief executive of Visa Inc., a company that is still digesting its former European franchisee, Alfred Kelly has had a busy couple of months. Since taking charge from former CEO Charles W. Scharf in December, Kelly has stopped by 12 Visa offices globally, met …
• 1 February

  Notes on Loyalty: Apple Pay, USAT, VeriFone, FIS

  Payments companies are taking strides toward integrating rewards for everyday purchases into mobile wallets, while making it easier to redeem those rewards at point-of-sale terminals. Last month, vending-payments specialist USA Technologies Inc. said it is integrating its MORE. loyalty platform into Apple Pay. The deal is designed to induce more …
• 1 February

  Do Surcharge Bans Suppress Free Speech?

  A layman would have a hard time equating a ban on credit-card surcharges with repression of free speech, but that was the crux of the argument Jan. 10 between lawyers for merchants and the state of New York as they debated for about an hour before before the U.S. Supreme …
• 1 February

  Identity Fraud Climbs to an All-Time High As Card Fraud Rises ‘Across the Board’

  

  By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews Payments professionals who suspect fraud is getting significantly worse were confirmed in their suspicions Wednesday with a report indicating identity fraud hit an all-time high in 2016, affecting some 15.4 million U.S. consumers. That’s up nearly 18% from 2015 and represents a one-third increase from the …
• 1 February

  Vantiv Posts 14% Merchant Services Revenue Increase and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • Processor Vantiv Inc. reported its Merchant Services unit increased net revenue in the quarter ended Dec. 31 14% to $412 million from $363 million in the year-ago quarter on a 13% rise in transactions and 1% increase in net revenue per transaction. For all of 2016, Merchant Services’ net revenue jumped …
• 1 February

  Vantiv Views Moneris as Key To Growing Integrated Payments Volume

  

  By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Vantiv Inc.’s
• 1 February

  The CFPB Orders Mastercard, UniRush To Pay $13 Million for 2015’s RushCard Glitch

  

  By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday announced a consent order that requires Mastercard Inc. and UniRush LLC, program manager of the prepaid RushCard, to pay $10 million in restitution to cardholders and a $3 million civil fine as a result of an October 2015 processing glitch …
• 1 February

  A Higher Gear for Dashboard Commerce

  It was only a matter of time before the 120-year-old automobile became a payments device. At the 2017 CES, a consumer electronics exhibition in Las Vegas, American Honda Motor Co. Inc. early last month demonstrated an in-vehicle payments system for parking and paying for fuel. Honda held the demonstration in …