The payments industry has forged a symbiotic relationship with cloud computing. That isn’t likely to be swept away any time soon. More than two years ago, Global Payments Inc. took a big leap into marrying cloud computing with payments. The big payment processor signed an agreement with Amazon.com Inc. to …

Payments provider Adyen Inc. said Moneybird, a software-as-a-service platform, has agreed to use card-issuing and business-accounts services the payments company has recently released. Prepaid card specialist Blackhawk Network announced its rebates-redemption platform has exceeded 1 billion transactions. Rebates are processed via branded gift or prepaid cards. POSaBIT Systems Corp., a specialist in payments processing …

Despite consumer concerns over higher prices caused by inflation, spending for the holiday shopping season got off to a strong start over the weekend. Total retail sales in the United States, including in-store and e-commerce transactions but excluding the automotive sector, were up more than 12% on Black Friday from …

As businesses grapple with today’s economic uncertainty, many are facing difficult budget and resource constraints. But as company leaders focus on the slowing economy, they must not forget about cybercriminals. Placing fraud prevention on the backburner risks falling behind sophisticated fraudsters, who constantly take advantage of economic uncertainty, and refine …

In the wake of failures by the cryptocurrency lender Celsius and the crypto exchange FTX, MyChargeBack, a transaction-dispute service, warns users to beware of scams involving crypto-recovery promises. FIS Inc. intends to cut “thousands” of jobs, reported Bloomberg.com, in order to cut costs. Balance, a 2-year-old payments platform for business-to-business transactions, announced …

The surge in online shopping touched off by the pandemic has turned out to be something of a mixed blessing for smaller merchants. While it brought in a wave of new shoppers, it has also exposed a rising problem with glitchy checkouts at times of high demand, according to a …

By Michelle Jordan, SVP and Head of Payment Optimization The weighted average cost of payment acceptance is expected to have doubled from around 0.8% in 2009 to over 1.6% by 2025.[i] Fueled by the abundance of rewards cards, the shift to online payments, and the rise of commercial purchasing cards, …

Looking to speed payments through the automated clearing house while reducing risk, Plaid Inc. announced late Thursday the rollout of Signal, a machine-learning risk engine. Plaid has been piloting Signal for more than a year with select customers that generate high ACH volumes. To accelerate ACH transactions and make them …

Twenty percent of consumers plan to use a buy now, pay later plan during the holiday shopping season, according to an October survey of more than 1,000 consumers by the Electronic Transactions Association and The Strawhecker Group. An additional 20% were “on the fence” about using BNPL. In related news, Vagaro, a …

Months after the introduction of Google Wallet, Alphabet Inc. announced late Tuesday it is expanding the availability of the digital wallet to 12 more countries, bringing the total number of countries where the wallet is available to 57. Users will now also be able to make the wallet available on …