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• Payments processor Vantiv Inc. said its eProtect payment-security service now works with Android Pay. Vantiv also announced its validated point-to-point encryption service now includes VeriFone Systems Inc. point-of-sale equipment. • PayPal Holdings Inc. said consumers now can make PayPal payments using PayLease, a payments and billing platform for property …
September, 2016
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27 September
An Appellate Court Victory Bolsters AmEx in Its Efforts to Enforce Acceptance Terms
By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews A federal appeals court on Monday handed American Express Co. a signal victory in the age-old battle with merchants over card-acceptance costs, but in doing so it may also have bolstered the card giant in its efforts to set and enforce merchant pricing. The U.S. Court …
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27 September
E-Retailers Take Heed: Certain ZIP Codes Harbor a Lot More Fraud Than Others
By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews E-commerce fraud, the bane of online retailers and payments providers, is not only on the rise, certain U.S. locations seem more prone to this deceit than others. That’s according to a recent report from Experian plc. Data-specialist Experian says the riskiest ZIP code for shipping-address fraud is …
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27 September
ACI and VocaLink in Faster Payments Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Processor Fiserv Inc. said ATM services provider FCTI Inc., a U.S. affiliate of convenience-store giant 7-Eleven Inc.’s Japan-based parent company, picked it to provide transaction processing for 7-Eleven’s nearly 8,000 U.S. ATMs when FCTI takes over the portfolio next July from Cardtronics plc. • Payment technology provider ACI Worldwide …
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26 September
Notes From Using Apple Pay on the Web: Easy And Slick; Too Bad It’s Safari Only
By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Apple Pay’s latest incarnation—enabling one-click payments for mobile and desktop Web-site purchasing—deftly brings the familiarity of such payments to Apple Pay users and merchants. At least, that’s my take on it, having used it last week when the service was released as part of an Apple Inc. …
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26 September
TCF Makes Dual Interface Its Standard EMV Debit Card Offering
In a break from the practice of most EMV chip card issuers, TCF National Bank reported this month that it will be issuing all of its customers’ debit cards with both contact and contactless capabilities. The bank, the principal subsidiary of Wayzata, Minn.-based TCF Financial Corp., said it will begin …
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26 September
Bank Adds Mobile Card Control Feature and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• E-commerce marketplace Rakuten.com will allow merchants outside the United States to sell to U.S. customers and collect payments in their local currency through a new arrangement with processor Payoneer. • First National Bank of Pennsylvania added a feature called CardGuard to its mobile-banking app that lets users turn their …
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23 September
Avidia Bank Among Same-Day ACH Pioneers and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Avidia Bank announced it is offering same-day ACH payments using technology supplied by linked2pay, a payments-technology company. • Fuel-pump manufacturer and convenience-store technology provider Gilbarco Veeder-Root said Colbea Inc., which does business as Seasons Corner Market, is installing Gilbarco’s Passport Point of Sale system to handle EMV chip card payments …
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22 September
The Decade-Old PCI Council Looks Forward, But Some Things Don’t Change
By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews The PCI Security Standards Council is now a decade old, and as it concludes its annual North America community meeting in Las Vegas Thursday it faces a payments-security landscape vastly changed from the one it confronted 10 years ago, with mobile payments, tokenization, and so-called fin-tech startups …
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22 September
On the Eve of Same-Day Clearing, ‘Excitement Is Palpable’ at ACH Nerve Center
By John Stewart@DTPaymentNews Same-day processing starts Friday on the nation’s automated clearing house network, and months of preparation and planning appear to be paying off. “Everybody is heads-down getting it done. We haven’t been getting any SOS calls,” Jane Larimer, executive vice president of network services at NACHA, the governing …
