December 29, 2022
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Issuing/Originating, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Wallets, Prepaid Cards, Real-time Payments, Transaction Processing
Dealer-Pay, a payments-technology provider for automobile dealerships, has integrated its platform with Dealertrack, a management system serving the same industry. Guarda, whose cryptocurrency wallet includes a prepaid Visa card, added five more digital currencies to the 14 it already supports. Supported cryptocurrencies include Bitcoin and Ethereum. Japan-based Smartpay has launched Smartpay …
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December 15, 2022
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, E-Commerce, Issuing/Originating, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Transaction Processing
Afterpay, the buy now, pay later service owned by Block Inc.’s Square, is the one most used by Gen Z consumers—those between 18 and 25 years old—according to a survey from Insights in Marketing, a marketing consultancy, with 58% of them having used Afterpay. Next was Klarna at 44%; Affirm …
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December 9, 2022
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, E-Commerce, Law and Regulation, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Transaction Processing
Prepaid card platform Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. launched its One4All gift card, a single gift card accepted at more than 100 merchants and restaurants. The card is issued by Pathward N.A., a unit of Pathward Financial. Matera, a Brazil-based instant payments and QR code payments company, opened an office in San Francisco …
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December 6, 2022
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Fraud & Security, Issuing/Originating, Marketing, Mobile Commerce, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards
Curve OS Ltd. said it secured a deal with Credit Suisse to fund its first $1 billion in installment loans, via its Curve Flex product, in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. London-based Curve announced Curve Flex in 2021. A survey from Bango PLC of 2,500 U.S. subscription users found that 65% said …
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December 1, 2022
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Fraud & Security, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Wallets, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Transaction Processing
Thales, a French company known in the payments industry for its digital-identity technology, on Thursday introduced a product that it says will allow visually impaired shoppers to verify the details of a card transaction while standing at the point of sale. The Voice Payment Card, which Thales announced has been …
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November 30, 2022
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Fraud & Security, Issuing/Originating, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Transaction Processing
Payments provider Adyen Inc. said Moneybird, a software-as-a-service platform, has agreed to use card-issuing and business-accounts services the payments company has recently released. Prepaid card specialist Blackhawk Network announced its rebates-redemption platform has exceeded 1 billion transactions. Rebates are processed via branded gift or prepaid cards. POSaBIT Systems Corp., a specialist in payments processing …
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November 29, 2022
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, E-Commerce, Issuing/Originating, Marketing, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Wallets, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Transaction Processing
OTG Management, which manages airport restaurants, said it is supporting contactless payments and an expansion of Apple Pay and Google Pay acceptance, along with PayPal and Venmo, at two newly opened restaurants at LaGuardia airport. BigCommerce said merchants using its e-commerce sales had a 31% increase year-over-year in gross merchandise value …
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November 28, 2022
Acquiring, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, E-Commerce, Issuing/Originating, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Wallets, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Pricing, Transaction Processing
Despite consumer concerns over higher prices caused by inflation, spending for the holiday shopping season got off to a strong start over the weekend. Total retail sales in the United States, including in-store and e-commerce transactions but excluding the automotive sector, were up more than 12% on Black Friday from …
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November 23, 2022
Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Fraud & Security, Issuing/Originating, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Wallets, Person-to-Person Payments, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards
As businesses grapple with today’s economic uncertainty, many are facing difficult budget and resource constraints. But as company leaders focus on the slowing economy, they must not forget about cybercriminals. Placing fraud prevention on the backburner risks falling behind sophisticated fraudsters, who constantly take advantage of economic uncertainty, and refine …
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November 16, 2022
Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, E-Commerce, Issuing/Originating, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Wallets, Near-Field Communication (NFC), Person-to-Person Payments, Point-of-sale, Prepaid Cards, Radio Frequency Technology, Transaction Processing
Months after the introduction of Google Wallet, Alphabet Inc. announced late Tuesday it is expanding the availability of the digital wallet to 12 more countries, bringing the total number of countries where the wallet is available to 57. Users will now also be able to make the wallet available on …
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