Point-of-sale

February, 2022

• 2 February

  Zelle Rides a Rising Wave, Posting Strong Gains in ’21 in Transactions And Dollar Volume

  

  Spurred by rising demand from consumers and businesses alike for real-time digital payments, the peer-to-peer payments service Zelle continued to post strong double-digit growth in transactions and dollar volume in 2021. The bank-owned network, operated by Early Warning Services LLC, reported its latest results early Wednesday. Consumers and businesses sent …
• 1 February

  PayPal Logs A Strong Quarter As It Shifts Its Strategy to Boost User Engagement

  

  As all payments companies know, some active accounts are more active than others. On Tuesday, PayPal Holdings Inc.’s top executives made it plain the company’s 2022 priority is to emphasize—and pour money into promoting—accountholder activity. “The shift is, we’re not going to throw marketing dollars at low-value customers coming in,” …
• 1 February

  Block Closes on Afterpay, And Square Rolls It Out To Sellers in the U.S. And Australia

  

  Five months after announcing its deal to acquire buy now, pay later provider Afterpay Ltd., Block Inc. is making Afterpay available to Square sellers in the United States and Australia. The move comes as Block, Square’s parent company, officially closed the Afterpay acquisition on Monday. Block agreed to buy Afterpay …

January, 2022

• 31 January

  Eye On Restaurant POS: Full-Service Eateries Rebound As They Adopt New Payments Tech

  

  Full-service restaurants, one of the hardest-hit merchant segments at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, showed signs of a rebound in 2021, according to research by TouchBistro Inc., a provider of POS and restaurant-management applications. Findings from TouchBistro’s third annual “State of Full-Service Restaurants Report” reveals that 74% of full-service restaurants …
• 31 January

  85% Cite Real-Time Payments as Critical and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/31/22

  

  A survey of 260 corporate executives found that 85% said the availability of real-time payments is the most important factor when choosing a bank partner, said Citizens Financial Group Inc.Mozper, a contactless card intended to help educate children on responsible payments, launched in Brazil on the Visa Inc. network.A mobile-commerce startup …
• 28 January

  QR Code Transactions Are on the Rise, But Now So Are Concerns About QR Code Fraud

  

  With the Covid-19 pandemic helping fuel broad adoption of Quick Response codes by merchants for payments and ordering, it was only a matter of time before criminals exploited the contactless technology. Fraudsters are creating fake QR codes that, when scanned, take consumers to a bogus landing page that collects payment …
• 28 January

  The Fed Releases Some FedNow Fees and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/28/22

  

  The Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments platform will charge a monthly $25 participation fee for each receiving routing transit number, 4.5 cents per credit transfer to be paid by sender, and a penny for a request for payment message, paid by requestor. The Fed expects to release a full fee schedule later this …
• 28 January

  A Re-Energized Visa Sees Growth Coming From ‘BNPL, Crypto, And Wallets’

  

  Visa Inc.’s top executives made it plain Thursday afternoon that the story of the company’s growth into the near future is threefold, including cryptocurrency, cross-border transactions, and the buy now, pay later trend. “Visa is enabling scale for BNPL, crypto, and wallets,” Visa chief executive Alfred Kelly told equity analysts …
• 27 January

  MagicCube Launches Its Cloud-based Acceptance Platform For Mobile Devices

  

  The vision of turning mobile devices into tap-and-go POS terminals took a big step forward Thursday as MagicCube Inc. announced i-Accept Cloud, an open, cloud-based softPOS acceptance platform. i-Accept Cloud is expected to simplify the creation of new merchant payment acceptance and digital commerce solutions. By connecting the currently siloed …
• 27 January

  Mastercard: All in on Open Banking, But Not on Amazon’s Fee Dispute With Visa

  

  Top executives at Mastercard Inc. made it plain early Thursday the card network is determined to develop its account-to-account payment capabilities, while maintaining its distance from the dispute between its rival Visa Inc. and the e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. over transaction pricing. “That’s fundamentally a question for Visa and Amazon,” …