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48% Don’t Use Mobile Wallets and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/21/17

  • Some 48% of surveyed U.S. consumers don’t use Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Venmo, or Bitcoin and 46% say not enough places accept these payment methods, according to invoicing and payments firm Viewpost, which canvassed 1,000 people.
  • Mobile-payments provider LevelUp announced a link to delivery.com, which serves more than 12,000 restaurants. The connection will offer more restaurant choices to LevelUp and Chase Pay app users.
  • The Saatva Co., an online seller of luxury mattresses, will offer financing plans to customers through mobile-payments provider Klarna.
  • Speedpay Inc., a unit of the The Western Union Co. that services more than 350 billers across the country, announced it is offering its clients the Expresso app from Nordis Technologies. The app is expected to help billers prepare and distribute billing statements and other communications.
  • Online retailer Zulily has launched its first proprietary credit card. The issuer is Synchrony Financial.

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