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MyKaarma, a payments service for automobile dealers, said its surcharge service, myKaarma Surcharge, has achieved compliance with Honest Pricing Laws that have been enacted in several states, including California and New York. Surcharging allows merchants to add their cost of credit card acceptance to a bill when a customer presents a credit …
September, 2024
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6 September
AmEx Looks to Smooth Checkouts With a Web-Based Card-on-File Move
American Express Co. expects its pilot program enabling cardholders to add their payment information at participating online merchants will please cardholders and make for smoother checkouts. The pilot, announced Thursday, allows AmEx cardholders to add or update their card information and store it for use at a participating merchant through …
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6 September
Co-Branded Airline Credit Cards Figure in Federal Rewards Scrutiny
The U.S. Department of Transportation is looking into airline rewards programs with an eye on protecting consumers from potential unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive practices, the department says. Many consumers use cobranded airline credit cards to earn points in these programs, though the DOT’s focus is on rewards, not on card-issuing …
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6 September
Chase Email Readies Cardholders for Paze and other Digital Transactions News Briefs from 9/6/24
Chase emailed its cardholders Friday that it will soon offer Paze, a new online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, and that eligible Chase credit and debit cards will be linked to Paze. The bank will notify cardholders when Paze is ready for use. Chase also provided the option to opt …
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5 September
Visa Prepares to Launch Account-to-Account Payments in Europe—Starting in the U.K.
Visa Inc. announced early Thursday it will launch account-to-account (A2A) payment capabilities in the United Kingdom in early 2025. The move will allow U.K. consumers paying bills to do so directly from their bank account, as opposed to paying by check, cash, or card. Visa’s plans for the service, called …
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5 September
PayPal Everywhere Debuts New Rewards for the PayPal Debit Card
With cash back as a favored consumer reward, PayPal Holdings Inc. is broadening its use with the debut of PayPal Everywhere, a rewards program for consumers on the PayPal Debit Mastercard. Announced Thursday, the program includes stackable cash-back offers and personalized ways to manage spending. It enables PayPal Debit cardholders …
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5 September
AmEx, Knot Test Updater System and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/5/24
American Express Co. said fintech Knot is testing a new feature that enables select AmEx cardholders to add their payment information at participating merchants, including Bloomingdale’s, Hilton, and Macy’s. With Knot, AmEx can enable its customers to update card-on-file information instantly, AmEx said, using Knot’s CardSwitcher technology and proprietary AmEx tech. …
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4 September
With Paysemble, Opus Looks to Simplify Payment App Integration
Payments-technology provider Opus Technologies Inc. has launched Paysemble, a suite of apps that are meant to streamline payment integration for financial institutions and merchants. A cloud-based solution, Paysemble allows businesses to consolidate payments from multiple channels through interoperable message hubs, configurable security, and batch processing. As a result, businesses can …
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4 September
Eye on Processing: EMS’s LegitScript Tie-in for Health Care; Insurer Picks InvoiceCloud for Billing and Payment Improvements
Electronic Merchant Systems LLC is teaming up with LegitScript to give its health-care merchants access to a certification tag, while InvoiceCloud says Western National Insurance Group picked it for a new digital-payment and policyholder-relations service. Cleveland-based EMS, which processes approximately $6 billion in annual volume for 25,000 merchants, says the …
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4 September
U.S. Bank’s New Smartly Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/4/24
U.S. Bank said it is launching two new products, the Smartly Visa Signature card and the Smartly Savings account. The former offers as much as 4% cash back on transactions. Some 48% of consumers in the U.S. market are using digital wallets for payments, up from 38% in 2021, according to …