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The Covid-19 pandemic forced many restaurants to change the way they do business by providing online and mobile ordering, and even setting up pickup and delivery-only kitchens to meet consumers’ changing ordering preferences. With that need in mind, Square Inc. on Thursday announced its kitchen-display system, Square KDS, will now …
May, 2021
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20 May
Certegy Debuts White-Label BNPL Option and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/20/21
Certegy Payment Solutions LLC added a white-label version of its buy now, pay later service that enables merchants to add their own branded BNPL option.Buy now, pay later specialist Quadpay Inc. said its inaugural “Quadpay Fest” sale, which offered deals to users over a four-day period, saw 40% of purchases on average made …
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19 May
Phishing Attacks on the Financial Sector Increased 45% in 2020, Akamai Report Finds
While some parts of the economy slowed in 2020, criminals paid no mind to that as their phishing attacks against companies in the financial sector increased 45% over 2019 to 3.4 billion, Akamai Technologies Inc. found in its “State of the Internet / Security report: Phishing for Finance” released Wednesday. …
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19 May
Eye on E-Commerce: Digital River’s Single Integration; BitPay Signs Jomashop for Crypto
With consumers flocking to online stores and marketplaces, processors and technology providers are carving out new paths to make it easier to sign up sellers and process their transactions. The latest development comes from commerce platform Digital River, which on Wednesday launched a program that allows independent software vendors and …
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19 May
Western Union Ready at Walmart Stores and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/19/21
The Western Union Co. said its money transfer services are now available at almost 4,700 U.S. Walmart Inc. stores. The two companies announced the addition of Western Union in January.Grocery chain Food Lion said it is accepting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s electronic benefit transfer card in the 10 states where the chain has …
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18 May
P97 Beefs Up Petro Canada’s Mobile App With Pay at the Pump Functionality And More
Houston-based P97 Networks Inc., a provider of cloud-based mobile-commerce technology, on Tuesday announced it is adding pay-at-the-pump and electric-vehicle charging functionality to Petro-Canada’s and Petro-Canada EV’s mobile apps. Consumers will also be able to use the apps to locate Petro-Canada locations and earn and redeem loyalty points. P97’s mobile technology integrates …
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18 May
Appetize Payments Served up and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/18/21
Appetize Technologies Inc., a provider of point-of-sale technology for the hospitality and entertainment industries, launched Appetize Payments, which combines payment processing with the company’s cloud-based software.Ally Lending, the personal-lending unit of Ally Bank, a subsidiary of Ally Financial Inc., said buy now, pay later provider Sezzle Inc. will offer Ally’s longer-term …
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18 May
How Low-Code Integrations Help Dwolla Link to Businesses With Limited Programming Expertise
Building on its strategy to enable application developers to connect to its platform faster, and in turn bring their applications to market faster, Dwolla Inc. is offering what it calls Drop-in Components. It’s a low-code programming option, so called because it allows developers to integrate Dwolla’s application programming interface using …
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17 May
MagicCube Partners With Dojo to Roll Out i-Accept in the U.K. And Ireland
MagicCube Inc. announced Monday that Dojo, a United Kingdom-based payments provider, will adopt MagicCube’s i-Accept software, which converts off-the-shelf mobile devices into point-of-sale terminals. Dojo will integrate i-Accept into its SoftPos + PIN platform in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The integration is expected to give Dojo …
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17 May
COMMENTARY: From the Unbanked to the Digerati, Banks Must Decode the New Payments Landscape
Amid one of the greatest crises in a century, the way we execute commerce and pay for goods and services has seen an acceleration that will be with us long after we return to some semblance of normalcy. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated by five years or more the adoption …
