(This is the first part of a two-part column. Part Two will appear next month.) From the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to the laboratories of Silicon Valley, innovation is the most important thing happening in payments today. We are re-inventing not only the technology of payments but …

After years of ever-tightening regulation in payments and other financial services, it comes as a relief to witness some of the encouraging steps Congress and the Trump administration are taking to unshackle innovation. As our Acquiring story starting on page 20 documents, movement is afoot on a broad front to …

Advent International, a private-equity firm with considerable experience in the payments space, announced Friday that it had acquired a majority stake in the big independent sales organization and payment processor Clearent LLC and merged it with FieldEdge, an independent software vendor serving home-services contractors. Advent had also bought FieldEdge. Financial …

JetPay Corp. reported a 15% year-over-year increase in fourth-quarter 2017 revenues to $19.9 million. The payment and payroll processor posted a net loss of $3.9 million, including $2.87 million in accretion of convertible preferred stock. Shift4 Payments said more of its payments services are available to users of ResortSuite, a …

According to the Breach Level Index, more than 9.24 million data records have been lost or stolen since 2013, and while the introduction of EMV chip cards has caused a drop in counterfeit card fraud, US Payments Forum says “card not present” (CNP) fraud is on the rise. “The United …

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Braintree e-commerce processing unit launched Braintree Extend, a service offering that includes support for transaction services, rewards and loyalty, and contextual commerce. Brazil’s central bank this week announced a cap on debit card interchange of 0.80% of the transaction, while averaging no more than 0.50%, according to …

A strong majority of consumers—60%—would use an intelligent personal assistant or voice-activated speaker to make a purchase or payment, finds the latest iteration of the TSYS U.S. Consumer Payment Study. The response is notable in because it was less than a year ago that another survey found only 19% of …

For 20 years, USAePay has been shaking up how things are done in payments. Since inception, USAePay has been leading the payments industry, working directly with reseller banks, ISO’s, merchants, and developers. Back in 1998, computers and the Internet had limited capabilities. However, over the last couple of decades, technological …

Buy online, pick up in store is now a mainstream expectation for consumers, finds a survey from Kibo Software Inc., an e-commerce platform provider. In the Kibo “2018 Consumer Trends Report” of 3,000 U.S. consumers, 67% said they made a purchase online and picked it up in a store in …

With about 18 months of experience with contactless debit cards under its belt, TCF Financial Corp. says it’s all-in for so-called dual-interface cards and mobile payments as the number of U.S. merchant locations accepting contactless payments continues to grow. The Wayzata, Minn.-based company’s TCF Bank began supporting the major mobile …