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U.S.-based blockchain platform Ripple Labs Inc. said its unit in Singapore, Ripple Markets APAC Ltd, has received a Major Payments Institution license from Singapore’s Monetary Authority, enabling Ripple to go on providing regulated digital-payment token services in that country. Online grocery-delivery service Instacart said it will now accept payments from users through Medicare Advantage …
October, 2023
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3 October
Nuvei Works With Solutions By Text for Embedded Bill Pay And Gains a Footprint in China
Solutions by Text is adding embedded bill-payment capabilities to its FinText messaging and payments platform. Consumers will now be able to pay bills through the FinText platform without leaving the platform’s Web site or mobile app, which creates a more convenient payment experience, the company says. Transactions will be processed …
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3 October
SpotOn Retreats From Stadiums to Focus on the Restaurant POS Market
Count one less competitor in the market for advanced point-of-sale technology at stadiums. Shift4 Payments Inc. has agreed to buy SpotOn Transact Inc.’s sports and entertainment business for $100 million in a move that beefs up Shift4’s position in the burgeoning stadium market and marks a retreat by SpotOn from …
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2 October
Exchange Bank Picks Pidgin for Real-Time Payments And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/2/23
Payments-technology platform Pidgin said it has agreed to provide real-time payments capability to retail and commercial account holders at Exchange Bank. AffiniPay LLC, a payments platform for professional-services firms, has sold its accounting-software unit, Soluno, to ActionStep, a provider of practice-management technology. Terms were not disclosed. The U.S.-based blockchain firm Coinbase Inc. announced it …
September, 2023
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29 September
Visa’s Friendly Fraud Rule Change Could Cut $1 Billion From Small Firms’ Chargeback Costs
Visa Inc. is touting recent changes to how chargebacks that could be first-party fraud, also known as friendly fraud, are processed as potentially saving small businesses globally $1 billion in costs over the next five years. Expectations are that the streamlined process will increase merchants’ ability to provide more accurate …
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29 September
COMMENTARY: Banks Must Embrace Fintechs If They Want to Reshape the Future of Global Payments
The world of global payments is undergoing major changes as new technologies and players enter the payment space. While banks and financial institutions have historically dominated international payments, we are seeing new innovations and non-traditional competitors redefine how money moves across the globe. In recent years, the entire payments chain …
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29 September
TNS Lines up 1,500 ATMs Contract And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/29/23
U.S.-based network-management company Transaction Network Services said its technology will manage connectivity for Spain-based Euro Automatic Cash, a network of 1,500 ATMs. Tiptap, a donation platform, said it will enable Visa member financial institutions to offer customers a platform to make small donations to community charities while they are performing routine banking …
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28 September
Shift4 Looks to Bring Amazon’s Just Walk Out Checkout to Stadiums And Other Venues
Shift4 Payments Inc. announced Thursday it is integrating Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out technology into its VenueNext application for sports stadiums and other arenas. The big payments processor says it will introduce the checkout system at the United Center in Chicago, a venue where Shift4 already provides processing for purchases …
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28 September
Eye on POS: Olo Adds AI-Based Voice Ordering, And an International Restaurant Group Taps Lightspeed
Unceasing competition for restaurant payments revenue has spurred two developments among point-of-sale system makers catering to the segment. Santa Clara, Calif.-based SoundHound AI Inc. says Olo, a New York City-based hospitality specialist, will make SoundHound’s voice-ordering service, which relies on artificial intelligence, available to its approximately 77,000 merchant locations. When …
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27 September
Eye on Restaurants: Inspire Turns to Fiserv; Shift4 Picks SkyTab Rescue Mission Winners
The hotly contested restaurant point-of-sale market shows no signs of cooling off. Inspire Brands Inc., a global restaurant chain that is home to Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin’, and four other brands, has expanded its work with processor Fiserv Inc. with the goal of unifying in-store, in-app, and online transactions for more …
