News

November, 2016

• 21 November

  The Chase Pay App Debuts With In-Store Acceptance at Starbucks, Best Buy, More To Come

  

  By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Monday officially launched its Chase Pay mobile app, announcing users can now download the wallet and use it to pay at more than 7,500 Starbucks Corp. outlets and at almost 1,400 Best Buy Co. Inc. stores to start with. The app, …
• 21 November

  VeriFone Engage Marks European Launch and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • ATM network owner and operator Cardtronics plc announced an expanded relationship with Carnival Cruise Line that adds Cardtronics ATMs to the crew areas of Carnival’s 25-ship fleet and makes Cardtronics Carnival’s exclusive ATM provider for both guests and crew. Cardtronics will have two ATMs for passengers and two for crew …
• 18 November

  CanPay Makes ACH Electronic Payments a Reality for Legal Marijuana Merchants

  

  Recreational marijuana is now legal in a growing number of states, but cash remains the dominant payment method. Now, however, CanPay, a Littleton, Colo.-based payments provider, has developed a digital payment option that allows legal marijuana retailers to directly debit a consumer’s checking account from the point of sale. Typically, …
• 18 November

  ATM Fee Lawsuit Advances and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • The U.S. Supreme Court gave the green light to class-action lawsuits by ATM operators and consumers accusing Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and several U.S. banks of conspiring to inflate the prices of ATM access fees in violation of antitrust law, Reuters reported. The justices dismissed two related cases they earlier had …
• 17 November

  COMMENTARY: Cash Is Still King, And Opportunities Are Hidden in Plain Sight

  

  By Danny Shader In October 2016, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. released its 2015 National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households, providing valuable insight into the demographics and banking history of the unbanked and underbanked (often collectively referred to as the “financially underserved”). Many are surprised to learn that a …
• 17 November

  CanPay Debuts for Marijuana Purchases and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • Two merchant organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting a U.S. Department of Justice filing that asks the full panel of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear a 6-year-old case alleging anti-steering rules established by American Express Co. are anti-competitive. A three-judge panel of that court ruled …
• 16 November

  U.S. Online Newcomer Klarna Expands Its User Base And Rolls out New Features

  

  By Peter Lucas @DTPaymentNews Sweden-based e-commerce payments provider Klarna continues to expand its footprint in the United States by doubling its user base and adding new features to enhance the user experience. More than 2 million U.S. consumers now use Klarna’s streamlined checkout service, generating hundreds of millions of dollars …
• 16 November

  Visa’s EMV Debit Routing Practices Attract the Attention of the FTC And the Fed

  

  By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Visa Inc.’s practices involving EMV debit card transaction routing, Visa disclosed Tuesday. And the Federal Reserve earlier this month posted guidance about EMV debit routing that, according to retailer trade groups, was issued in response to their objections to Visa’s practices …
• 16 November

  NFC Rising: The Contactless Terminal Base Expands in North America And Globally

  

  By Peter Lucas @DTPaymentNews By the numbers, at least, merchants appear to be paving the way for mobile and contactless payments to become mainstream in the United States. The installed base of terminals ready for near-field communication in the U.S. and Canada is projected to reach 9.2 million by year’s …
• 16 November

  FTC Investigating Visa EMV Routing Practices and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • The Federal Reserve posted a notice that a payment network violates the debit card transaction-routing requirements in its rule implementing the Dodd-Frank Act’s Durbin Amendment if the network requires a merchant to allow a cardholder to choose an application that routes to only one network during an EMV debit card purchase. …