Ingenico Launches POS Device for SMBs and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/27/18

Liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court sharply questioned American Express Co.’s lawyer during oral arguments Monday for a major case involving a challenge to AmEx’s anti-steering rules for its merchants, Reuters reported. A group of 11 states led by Ohio alleges the rules violate antitrust laws and is challenging a federal appellate court’s ruling that upheld them.
Point-of-sale equipment maker Ingenico Group introduced Axium, an Android-based POS platform for small merchants that uses Ingenico’s Telium Tetra platform.
First Data Corp. launched the Clover Mini and Clover Flex point-of-sale devices in Germany and Austria. In addition to payments processing, Clover also enables merchants to use apps to run their businesses.
POS systems provider iVend Retail released its “2018 Path to Purchase Survey” that found 32.9% of consumers would like to see automatic payment via digital shopping carts, but 36.1% don’t want to use new technologies when they shop.
Visa Inc. said 14 technology companies in 10 nations joined the Visa Ready for Transit program, which aims to improve and promote contactless payments in transit.
Fraud-mitigation specialist Signifyd and Corra, a digital agency for retailers, announced a partnership that provides Corra clients access to Signifyd’s services.

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