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20 Years of Payments Coverage

Digital Transactions celebrates its 20th birthday with a review of the 10 major themes that continue to preoccupy the industry. When publishers start a magazine, whether in print or online—or both—there’s simply no way to tell how long it will last. There are too many unpredictable factors. But the publishers …

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Eye on POS: Elo Pay Debuts; How Soft POS Transactions Will Bloom

The hotly competitive point-of-sale technology arena just got more so with the launch of Elo Pay and an accompanying POS terminal from Elo Touch Solutions Inc. Coming from Milpitas, Calif.-based Elo, Elo Pay provides payment acceptance, encryption, tokenization, and terminal-management tools in one service. Elo Pay also offers remote key …

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On The Fly Taps BYOD for a New Hospitality POS Product

On The Fly POS’s latest product, called Ground Control, is making it easier for hospitality merchants to use their own devices for ordering and table management. The new app, with versions for both iOS and Android mobile devices, enables merchants to use their own hardware with an integrated software app …

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Slake’s Delivery App Supports Crypto Payments; Visa’s Billions in Crypto Volume Since 2021

Slake IT LLC on Monday launched a food-delivery app that enables consumers to pay for orders using cryptocurrency in addition to credit cards. The company, which is supporting the Ethereum platform to enable crypto payments, has partnered with drivers of multiple food-delivery companies, including DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, to …

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The Fed on Request for Payment And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/27/23

The Federal Reserve issued a set of market practices, or a kind of blueprint, as part of an effort to introduce standards for a request for payment function for bill pay on the regulator’s FedNow real-time payments service, which launched nationwide in July. Block Inc.’s Square point-of-sale unit launched Tap to Pay on Android …

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Eye on Crypto: A MoneyGram Launch; Wirex Partners With OnRamper; Bitget Lists PayPal’s Stablecoin

MoneyGram International Inc. announced Tuesday it will launch in the first quarter next year a non-custodial digital wallet that will support stablecoins. The wallet’s support of stablecoins—digital currency tied to the value of a national fiat currency, such as the dollar— will enable consumers to move from fiat currency to …

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Processor NAB Enters the SoftPOS Sweepstakes With Tap to Pay on iPhone

North American Bancard has joined a growing list of processors offering Tap to Pay on iPhone or its Android-based equivalent to merchants for contactless transactions. A big advantage of Tap to Pay on iPhone, especially for small and micro-merchants, is that it enables them to accept in-person contactless payments on …

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Intuit Makes a Bid for More Small-Business Payments With a New Combo Service

Intuit Inc., developer of the QuickBooks accounting software and related services for small businesses, embedded itself further into the payments business on Wednesday when it unveiled QuickBooks Money. The free product allows businesses to send invoices accepting payment choices including credit, debit, automated clearing house, PayPal, Venmo, and Apple Pay …

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The CFPB Eyes Tech Firms’ Role in Governing Tap-to-Pay

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau late Thursday released a report raising questions about the part restrictions imposed by big technology firms like Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc’s Google subsidiary may play in hampering innovation, consumer choice, and the growth of open and decentralized banking and payments in the U.S. The …

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Tap to Pay in North America And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/27/23

Payments-technology provider Aevi said it is working with contactless-technology firm Bleu to offer tap-to-pay functionality in North America and Europe on both Android and iPhone devices. Cross River Bank said it will enable an expanded menu of payment options through open-banking platform Plaid, including instant transfers for payroll and other applications. Payments provider Lightspeed …

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