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Lightspeed’s Revenue Jumps 79% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/4/21

  • Payments provider Lightspeed POS Inc. reported total revenue of $57.6 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, up 79% year-over-year. Revenue was $49.3 when excluding the recent acquisitions of payments providers ShopKeep and Upserve. The company’s merchant base grew 74% year-over-year to 115,000, or 84,000 excluding the acquisitions, up from 66,000.
  • Fiserv Inc. and the Inclusive Innovation Incubator announced the launch of Inclusive Innovation Labs, a program focused on helping Howard University students and alumni launch and scale their businesses.
  • Buy now, pay later provider PayBright Inc. said it has signed Little Burgundy, a footwear retailer in Canada. Customers can opt for the installment credit upon checkout on Little Burgundy’s site. BNPL provider Affirm Inc. last month closed on its $340-million (Canadian) acquisition of PayBright.
  • Chargeback Gurus released an ebook on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected chargebacks.
  • Payments provider Nuvei Corp. said it has added technologies aimed at buttressing protection against chargebacks for merchants. These include Dynamic 3D Secure and an integration with Visa Inc.’s Verifi anti-fraud platform. Founded in 2003, Nuvei was known as Pivotal Payments until October 2018.
  • Aria Systems, an enterprise subscription payments provider, said it expanded its partnership with Worldline S.A. to offer new payment options and reduce fraud and failed transactions.
  • Nacha, the automated clearing house governing body, said 26.8 billion payments were made on the ACH network, an 8.2% increase from 2019. The value of these payments in 2020 was $61.9 trillion, a 10.8% increase.
  • Payments-technology provider Mogo Inc. said its Carta Worldwide unit is entering the Japanese market in support of the launch there of a multicurrency debit card by payments provider TransferWise Ltd. Mogo closed on its $24-million acquisition of Carta Worldwide last month.
  • Bill.com, a provider of cloud-based payments-processing technology, has added former eBay and Salesforce executive Steve Fisher to its board of directors.
  • Payments and banking provider Green Dot Corp. appointed Gyorgy Tomso chief technology officer. Formerly, Tomso held positions at PayU and at Euronet Worldwide, which was co-founded by current Green Dot chief executive Dan Henry.

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