In the wake of 2019’s major merger-and-acquisition activity in the payments industry, the impact of Covid-19 is affecting the timing of deals, capital availability, and the due diligence process. That’s the assessment from panelists in the “M&A Trends in a Pandemic World” session at Transact Connect, the Electronic Transactions Association’s …

It was a nasty April for Priority Technology Holdings Inc. as the Covid-19 business downturn tightened its grip, but the merchant acquirer is looking to integrated payments and other growth areas to soften the blow. “In the month of April we processed roughly $2.7 billion in volume, which was down …

Green Dot Corp. chief executive Dan Henry has only been on the job for about six weeks, but on Monday he was emphatic about one thing: The prepaid card and payments specialist is going to hold on to one particular and—in the view of Henry—very valuable asset. “We are not …

Lockdowns and social distancing have been a gut punch for many payments businesses, but early Wednesday top executives at Atlanta-based processor Global Payments Inc. indicated the pain may be wearing off. “We’ve already seen stabilization in April,” chief executive Jeff Sloan said during a morning call with equity analysts. “We …

When it comes to making a purchase, who doesn’t use a credit or debit card? Most of the world, that’s who. While paying with a credit card is standard in the United States and much of the Western world, that’s definitely not the global norm. It’s estimated that less than …

The guide has a slightly different name now, but the same purpose—to seek out and describe the nonbank players, apart from the big networks, that are rewriting the rules for the digital exchange of value. Since 2004, Digital Transactions has traced the course of payments innovation through its nimblest practitioners—the …

The Covid-19 pandemic is overhauling payment habits, and hence payment technology. How long-lasting are the changes? On 9/11, when terrorists attacked New York City and Washington, D.C., they commandeered passenger airliners and used them as flying bombs. Nobody knew in the heat of the moment how many more might be …

The Covid-19 pandemic is a mandate for making investments in customers, employees, and corporate infrastructure. The pandemic has caused many new problems, but even more so it has shown that old problems need to be addressed more than ever before. Long-recognized concerns in financial services have become acute problems under …

Contactless payments may finally be gaining further adoption by U.S. consumers. Spurred by prevention efforts in reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic, many consumers—51%—use some form of contactless payment, Mastercard Inc. says. In what may be the most detailed data yet publicly released about U.S. consumers and contactless payments, Mastercard’s survey …

Citing the risk to their businesses from the coronavirus pandemic, securities rating agency Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to negative for seven publicly traded consumer-finance companies, including American Express Co., Discover Financial Services, and Synchrony Financial.Main Event Entertainment Inc. issued a notification indicating malware collected data from cards used on point-of-sale devices for food-and-beverage and entertainment …