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- Discover Financial Services said it has enabled Samsung Pay on the latest Samsung Galaxy smart phones and wearables for its cards in the United States. Discover announced in 2015 that it would support Samsung Pay.
- Cross-border payments provider Veem, formerly known as Align Commerce, announced an integration with QuickBooks Online, used by small businesses, to streamline the payment of bills from international vendors.
- In related news, The Western Union Co. launched an enhanced version of its WU GlobalPay for Students service, which helps colleges and universities manage payments from international students, including the reconciliation function.
- In yet other cross-border payments news, First Data Corp. unveiled its Local Payments service, which, when fully rolled out, will allow e-commerce businesses to collect payment using 195 local payment options through a single interface…
- …And merchant processor Global Payments Inc. announced expanded e-commerce services that give merchants access to more than 120 local and alternative payment methods in 170 countries in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Americas.
- Mastercard Inc. has released more application programming interfaces to enable payments on digital platforms. The release includes APIs for cashless payments via a Masterpass quick-response code, mobile order-ahead capability, and branded chatbots. The release, which brings to more than 40 the number of proprietary APIs now available to developers, comes from the company’s Mastercard Developers unit.
- The National Retail Federation announced that Stephanie Martz, a former White House and Congressional attorney and partner at one of Washington’s top lobbying firms, will join the trade group in September as senior vice president and general counsel. Martz will succeed senior vice president and general counsel Mallory Duncan, who will retire in August after 23 years with the NRF.
- NICE Actimize, a vendor of risk-management technology, expanded its cloud-based platform to offer the Actimize Fraud Essential Cloud product, a set of fraud-detection and investigation tools for mid-size financial institutions.
- Fuel-card provider Fleetcor Technologies Inc. announced it has migrated its Comdata processing unit to a cloud configuration from IBM Corp.
- Point-of-sale equipment provider Star Micronics added its CloudPRNT support to three of its printers. CloudPRNT enables online orders to be sent directly to printers without requiring a tablet to manage that communication.
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