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- Business-software provider Infor said it purchased Vivonet Inc., which provides point-of-sale software to the hospitality industry. Terms were not disclosed.
- Global Payments Inc. announced its Heartland acquiring and technology unit has developed application programming interfaces, end-to-end encryption support, and other software for Ingenico Group’s Desk/3500 terminal.
- PayPal Holdings Inc. announced it is expanding PayPal Checkout With Smart Payment Buttons and PayPal Marketing Solutions internationally. Both had been introduced in the U.S. market.
- CellPoint Mobile, a payments specialist for the travel industry, said Ethiopian Airlines now accepts Alipay in its app via an integration with CellPoint Mobile.
- FourStop GmbH, a global provider of know-your-customer compliance and fraud-prevention services, announced a deal with Web Shield, a merchant-monitoring service provider, to offer a global merchant-underwriting service.
- Forty-five percent of consumers who have a rewards credit card prefer paying with cash for purchases under $10, according to a new study of 1,000 such cardholders from Bankrate Inc.’s CreditCards.com marketplace unit. The median purchase total at which rewards cardholders say it makes sense to use credit is $25, the study found.
- The global board of directors of the Merchant Risk Council, a not-for-profit for e-commerce risk-control professionals, named as its new chief executive Paul Kuykendall, vice president of payment products at Ticketmaster and until now chairman of MRC’s global board. The board named Brad Mares, senior manager of fraud strategy and analytics at Target Corp., as its new chairman.
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