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With a variety of checkout strategies confronting merchants, NCR Voyix, which styles itself the “world’s largest self-checkout vendor,” has launched new self-checkout technology that relies on a software-as-a-service foundation that enables stores to offer barcode scanning, contactless payments, and other features. The company’s announcement came on the opening day of …
January, 2024
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15 January
Eye on NRF; BofA Zelle Users Grow 18% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/15/24
Banking giant Bank of America Corp. reported combined credit and debit card volume of $228.9 billion for the fourth quarter, up 3% year-over-year. The number of BofA users of the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network grew 18% to 21.5 million, while Zelle volume climbed 25% to $101 billion. Late in 2021, the …
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12 January
Despite Musk’s Bravado, X Faces an Uphill Battle in Launching Its P2P Network
Despite its formidable reach, the social-media platform X faces a steep climb to achieve its goal of launching a peer-to-peer payments service, according to payments experts. X, formerly known as Twitter, announced in a blog post earlier this week its plans to add P2P payments to its platform this year …
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12 January
COMMENTARY: A Rigged International Payments Market Is Bad for the U.S.—And Bad for Free Trade
On Nov. 20, 2023, Mastercard Inc. announced that its Chinese joint venture with Netsunion to process domestic payments had been approved by the People’s Bank of China and the National Administration of Financial Regulation. Was it a victory for, or a mockery of, free trade? If this landmark approval were …
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12 January
Underdog Picks Sift for Fraud Prevention And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/12/24
Sift, a provider of technology to prevent online fraud, said it has been engaged by Underdog, an online sports-fantasy platform, to prevent the use of stolen payment credentials. Darwinium, a fraud-prevention provider, said it will work with email-address technology from AtData to enable clients to identify fraudulent emails. Digital authentication …
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11 January
Merchants Nudge Congress to Vote on the CCCA As Members Reconvene for 2024
The battle between merchants, on one hand, and financial institutions and payment networks, on the other, over the Credit Card Competition Act continues to heat up. The Merchants Payments Coalition on Thursday sent a letter to Congress signed by nearly 2,000 merchants, including hundreds of small businesses, calling on legislators …
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11 January
Tap to Pay on Android Comes to GoDaddy Merchants
Web services and payments provider GoDaddy Inc. released its Tap to Pay on Android point-of-sale service for merchants, complementing the Tap to Pay on iPhone technology it already offers. Tap to Pay on Android enables merchants to use consumer-grade smart phones as contactless payment-acceptance devices without a need for separate …
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11 January
Global Payments’ New Venture And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/11/24
The big U.S. payments processor Global Payments Inc. announced Commerz Globalpay GmbH, a joint venture with Commerzbank to offer digital-payments technology to businesses in Germany. Global Payments will hold a 51% stake in the venture. The United Kingdom-based retailer Co-op said it has moved its payments technology into a cloud configuration on a platform …
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10 January
Eye on BNPL: Affirm Adds Vacation Property Rental Firm Evolve; ePay Policy Rolls Out BNPL for Premiums
Affirm Holdings Inc. has extended its reach into the vacation-property rental market through a partnership with Evolve Vacation Rental. Consumers renting vacation properties through Evolve can use Affirm as a payment option for bookings exceeding $500. Consumers pay in monthly installments and as little as 0% interest. Evolve says it …
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10 January
BitPay Looks to Add More Than 100 New Digital Currencies to Its Payments Platform
BitPay Inc. said Tuesday it will start adding dozens of cryptocurrencies to its platform this week in a move that includes a revamp of the company’s payments service. The Atlanta-based company, which has been processing crypto-based payments for more than 10 years, said it will start supporting more than 100 …
