Since he took over as chief executive in 2022, Paysafe Ltd.’s Bruce Lowthers has stressed what he sees as a crucial need for stronger, and direct, merchant sales to effect the turnaround he wanted to see at the international processing giant. Early Wednesday, he noted the company is ahead of …
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Shift4’s Jaguars Tickets Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/13/24
The National Football League’s Jacksonville Jaguars agreed to use Shift4 Payments Inc. to process ticket sales at its home venue, Everbank Stadium. Buy now, pay later provider Sezzle said retailer Rural King, with 130 stores, will offer the BNPL service. Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. reported third-quarter revenue of $79.1 million, up 6% from the same …
Read More »BlueSnap’s Many Integrations and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/24/24
Payments provider BlueSnap launched its Channel Partner Program, through which it has signed eight system-integration partnerships in the U.S., Canadian, and U.K. markets. Visa Inc. said it is working with governing entities around the world to help them create digital access to government services for their citizens. Mastercard Inc. announced it has extended its …
Read More »Paysafe’s Latest GIG of Holiday Gift Budgets and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/7/24
Paysafe Ltd. will process transactions for clients of Gaming Innovation Group in North America, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Latin America that have adopted Gaming Innovations’ CoreX player-account management system. Silverblaze, a developer of customer-engagement software for utility companies, will adopt billing and payment technology from Kubra and has joined …
Read More »Combatants Take Up Their Positions in Reaction to the DoJ’s Antitrust Suit Against Visa
Reaction from the payments industry to the Justice Department’s announcement Tuesday that it is suing Visa Inc. over antitrust issues involving its debit card business was swift and pointed. As expected, representatives of the payments industry denounced the lawsuit as baseless, while representatives of the merchant community and legislators friendly …
Read More »Lightspeed’s New Data Tool and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/14/24
Lightspeed Commerce, a specialist in hospitality payments, launched Retail Insights, a data service for merchants. Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it will process all ticket sales and foodservice payments at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, the arena for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. U.S.-based fintech software firm OMNIQ Corp. said …
Read More »Lowthers Cites Steady Progress at Paysafe, But Says ‘We’re Not Done’
When Bruce Lowthers took over a struggling Paysafe Ltd. two years ago, he immediately plunged into what he noted then was a wide-ranging reclamation project. On Tuesday, he called out some progress but also offered a blunt update on his transformation efforts. “We have the right strategy and our execution …
Read More »AmEx Outlines an Aggressive Plan for Expansion in Marketing
At more than $16 billion, revenue for American Express Co. hit an all-time high in the company’s June quarter, and now the travel-and-entertainment card giant is looking to ramp up marketing—radically. The company’s top brass said early Friday AmEx will pour $6 billion this year into selling consumers and businesses …
Read More »Tiptop Adds a New Twist to BNPL By Applying Trade-In Value to New Purchases
Tiptop Labs Inc., a payments-service provider, has launched a buy now, pay later program that allows consumers to trade in items for a credit toward a new purchase with select e-commerce merchants. The idea of applying trade-in value for a new purchase grew out of a trade-in-only app Tiptop launched …
Read More »Eye On Restaurants: NCR Voyix Launches a Self-Service Kiosk; Lightspeed’s Q4 earnings
Digital-commerce technology provider NCR Voyix Corp., formerly part of NCR Corp., has partnered with self-ordering software provider GRUBBRR to introduce a new ordering kiosk for restaurants. The kiosk, which integrates with NCR Voyix’s commerce platform, was developed as a response to consumers’ growing preference for self-service ordering, the company says. …
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