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Apple Inc. on Friday reversed course on Epic Games, saying it would allow the online game developer to build its own app store in Europe for Apple devices. The reversal came as the European Union’s Digital Markets Act took effect last week. In the U.S. market. Apple several years ago permitted Epic …
March, 2024
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8 March
Zil Money Surpasses $70 Billion in Volume and Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/8/24
Zil Money Corp. reported its automated check-payment app, OnlineCheckWriter.com, has passed $70 billion in volume since its inception in 2018. The service relies on various payment methods, including the automated clearing house, real-time payments, and QR codes. The payments platform Nayax Ltd. announced an offering of 3.13 million of its ordinary shares at …
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4 March
Galileo’s RTP Addition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/4/24
Galileo Financial Technologies expanded its relationship with The Bancorp Bank NA that now includes access to the RTP network, the real-time payments service from The Clearing Payments Co. LLC. Apple Inc. was hit with a $2 billion fine by the European Union over its European app store payment practices, CNN reported. Synchrony …
February, 2024
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29 February
Qu Lands GoTo Foods POS Deal And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/29/24
Hospitality point-of-sale specialist Qu Inc. announced GoTo Foods, owner of brands Auntie Anne’s, Cinnabon, Carvel, Jamba, McAlister’s Deli, Moe’s Southwest Grill, and Schlotzsky’s, will use the Qu POS platform across these brands. GoTo Foods said it has more than 6,700 global locations. Payments platform ACI Worldwide Inc. reported December-quarter revenue of $476.6 million, up …
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28 February
Zoccam And AppBrilliance Bring Real Time to Real Estate Payments; Orum Launches a FedNow API
AppBrilliance Inc., a provider of real-time payments technology, has partnered with Zoccam, a specialist in payments for the real-estate industry, to enable real-time payments for real-estate transactions. Zoccam will use AppBrilliance’s Money API to enable real-time transfers, such as earnest-money deposits, to be sent through The Clearing House Payment Co. …
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28 February
Mastercard’s Issuer Benefits And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/28/24
Mastercard Inc. launched its Open Banking for Account Opening program, aimed at U.S. issuers of consumer and small-business debit cards and issuers of consumer prepaid cards. The program aims to verify account ownership, reduce account abandonment, and cut non-sufficient funds returns. Brivo, a provider of technology for building access, has added …
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27 February
Par Revenue up 10% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/27/24
Payments-technology provider Par Technology Corp. posted fourth-quarter 2023 revenue of $107.7 million, a 10.2% increase from $97.2 million in the corresponding 2022 quarter. It had a quarterly loss of $18.6 million, up from a loss of $13.5 million the year prior. For all of 2023, Par had $415.8 million in revenue, a …
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26 February
Post Worldpay, FIS Looks to Share Buybacks And Growth in Digital Payments
Having completed on Feb. 1 a 55% spin-off of its massive Worldpay processing operation, FIS Inc. is now looking to concentrate on priorities including digital banking, real-time payments, and share buybacks, the company’s top executives said early Monday. Nor is the big Jacksonville, Fla.-based processor ignoring its potential gains from …
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23 February
Block’s Dorsey: Cash App Is Your New Bank, And Square May Enlist ISOs
Block Inc. posted double-digit increases in net income for its December quarter and for 2023, but its co-founder and chief executive let it be known late Thursday the company has work to do. “Across the board, we’ve been going through an exercise in how we work so we can move …
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14 February
FIS’s Pay by Bank Path And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/14/24
FIS Inc. said it is working with Banked, an open-banking provider, to develop new pay by bank services for businesses and consumers. Gateway provider Trice Technologies Inc. said it is a technology provider and real-time payments gateway for the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC. Web services and payments provider GoDaddy …
