Shift4 Payments Inc. is scheduled to have its first quarterly earnings call as a publicly held company on Thursday. Ahead of that call, company founder and chief executive Jared Isaacman is expressing satisfaction with the merchant acquirer’s June 4 initial public offering. The oversubscribed IPO was priced at $23 per share, …
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Galileo Inks Plaid Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/30/20
Payments-technology provider Galileo Financial Technologies LLC announced an integration with data aggregator Plaid Inc. Through Plaid’s links to financial institutions, the tie-in will allow Galileo clients to more readily authorize users for automated clearing house transactions. Visa Inc. announced in January a deal to acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. Social Finance Inc. (SoFi) agreed in April …
Read More »More Straight Talk for ISOs: Maintaining a Relationship during a Crisis
Ross Paup is Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships Angela Carranza is Manager, Strategic Partnerships Failure to communicate with customers during a crisis can come at a high cost: lost business, lack of trust, etc. How is First American ensuring customers know they are top of mind in today’s environment? Ross: …
Read More »Zelle Users at BofA Defy the Pandemic Gravity
Payment card usage in the U.S. might be taking a hit during the Covid-19 pandemic, but not the Zelle person-to-person payments service among Bank of America Corp.’s customer base. Charlotte, N.C.-based BofA reported Thursday that it had 11.3 million active Zelle users, including small businesses, in the second quarter, up 41% …
Read More »EMVCo’s New Travel Authentication Guidelines and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/16/20
Standards body EMVCo has developed guidelines on how the travel industry can provide data to payment card issuers to better verify the authenticity of an e-commerce transaction using current authentication processes. The guidelines are an extension of EMVCo’s 3-D Secure messaging protocol.The number of data breaches in the United States dropped by approximately one-third in the …
Read More »U.S. Bancorp’s Merchant Revenues Plunge and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/15/20
U.S. Bancorp, owner of merchant acquirer Elavon Inc., saw merchant-processing revenues decline 34% year-over-year in the second quarter to $266 million thanks to reduced consumer and business volumes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.Processor Shift4 Payments Inc. has been named the official credit card processing company for the Las Vegas Raiders National Football …
Read More »COMMENTARY: How 3-D Secure 2.0 Will Change the Payments Industry
With the massive increase in e-commerce this year, and new merchants moving to an online model out of necessity, combating card-not-present fraud is incredibly important. EMV 3-D Secure 1.0 (or 3DS1) has been continually upgraded as technology and consumer habits changed; however, from its first iteration it has always had …
Read More »Eye on the Point of Sale: Behind the Coin Shortage; The Decline in ATM Cash Withdrawals Slows
Consumers have been spending considerably less in most stores over the past four months, but that hasn’t prevented a shortage of coins from developing. But in one sign of a nascent revival of cash usage, the number ATM cash withdrawals by credit union members has finally broken a 15-week streak …
Read More »Contactless Transactions at Small Businesses Have More Than Doubled Since March
New data from a point-of-sale services provider show just how much of a boost the Covid-19 pandemic has given to contactless payments. New York City-based CardFlight Inc., a technology company serving more than 60,000 small businesses through its SwipeSimple service, says in its latest weekly report on payment trends since …
Read More »Report: Apple Testing QR Codes With Apple Pay
Apple Inc., whose Apple Pay is the leading mobile-payment service based on near field communication technology, reportedly is testing Quick Response codes as an alternative technology with Apple Pay. That development was first reported Tuesday by the 9 to 5 Mac blog, which said a second beta version of the …
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