The United Kingdom-based point-of-sale technology specialist Miura Systems has launched its latest payment device, an Android-based terminal called the Miura Android Smart POS, or MASP. It’s the latest payment-acceptance device aimed at independent sales organizations and other third-party resellers to take advantage of the open-source capabilities of the Android operating …

Insurance-industry payments specialist ePayPolicy launched Payables Connect, which it says automates reconciliation, creation, and payment of due payables. Technical-standards provider Global Platform said it will offer a seminar in Brussels April 26 on security for digital wallets offering eID. MSP Recovery Inc., which offers a product called LifeWallet to help providers manage medical …

Payment processor Euronet Worldwide Inc. on Wednesday announced a new fraud-monitoring service called Skylight the company says will enable analysts to write rules for monitoring suspicious transactions without needing to change software coding. The cloud-based service comes from Euronet’s epay division and runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Amazon.com Inc.’s …

More than half the U.S. companies polled in a recent survey—56%—said they were the target of at least one business-to-business payment-fraud attempt in 2022, with paper checks the leading fraud type. Furthermore, 43% of companies said they had been targeted more than once, and 12% said they had been targeted …

You may have only recently started to hear about payments orchestration. You’re going to hear a lot more about it as payment methods and routing choices multiply. Everybody in the business has heard for years how complicated payments are. In the old days, merchants were local, and all they accepted …

By Tom Byrnes, SVP, Marketing, PayiQ It’s no great secret that much of the current payment processing infrastructure in place could use updating. Much of the technology that traditional processors were built on is clunky and inefficient. The result: Every business that integrates (ISV) or resells (ISO) the payment services …

The Federal Trade Commission issued a proposed rule that would require sellers to offer a “click to cancel” button that customers could use to more easily stop subscriptions and recurring payments. A global survey on cross-border payments found 29% of mid-size and large U.S. businesses cite high transaction cost as a challenge, …

Mastercard Inc. is adding another arrow of digital-security technology in its cybersecurity quiver with the acquisition of Baffin Bay Networks, a Sweden-based cybersecurity company. Payments companies constantly need advanced ways to counter fraud because criminals are relentless. In fact, credit card fraud accounted for 6.2% of digital fraud in 2020, …

Snack POS, a provider of restaurant software, has fortified its position in the hotly competitive restaurant point-of-sale payments market through a partnership with POS terminal maker Sunmi Technology Co. The deal will enable Snack POS to offer Sunmi’s POS and mobile devices to restaurants. Sunmi’s devices are designed to help …

Silvergate Capital Corp. said it will wind down its operations and return deposits to customers after it was forced to sell assets at a loss. Silergate last year acquired the assets of stablecoin venture Diem Group, formerly known as Libra. U.S. retail sales in February, excluding automotive, were up 6.9% from February 2022, …