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Eye on Acquiring: Fortis Expands Into Canada and Acquires SmartPay; FreedomPay Adds Visa Network Tokenization

It’s been a busy June for Fortis Payment Systems LLC. The payment facilitator and independent sales organization announced Thursday it is moving into Canada, has acquired payments provider SmartPay, and has added new funding and settlement capabilities. Also Thursday, merchant processor FreedomPay Inc. said it is integrating Visa Inc.’s tokenization …

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Gr4vy’s Tokenization Move And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/30/23

Gr4vy Inc., a payments-technology provider, has integrated network-tokenization services from Giesecke+Devrient GmbH into its platform in a move expected to improve authorization rates and cut transaction costs. Owlin, an artificial-intelligence technology developer, launched Owlin for KYC, said to be one platform to screen merchants and to ease onboarding, monitoring, and …

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Bluefin Partners With Visa to Offer Network Tokenization

Bluefin Payment Systems LLC is leveraging Visa Inc.’s technology to provide network tokenization through its ShieldConex vaultless-tokenization service. Bluefin will integrate directly with Visa to provide network tokens across card brands. In addition, Bluefin’s payment gateway, PayConex, will have the ability to process network tokens. ShieldConex protects payment and ACH …

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COMMENTARY: Payments Security Requires Tokenization, Biometrics—And You

Digital payments are on the rise, and so is payment fraud. As of 2020, nearly 80% of Americans used at least one form of digital payment. Between 2020 and 2021, payment fraud attacks rose dramatically on digital wallets (200%), payment service providers (169%) and crypto exchanges (140%). To keep up …

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COMMENTARY: With Digital Payments Rising Fast, Tokenization Is More Urgent Than Ever

Network tokenization is a term that’s quickly been finding its way into the fintech and payments spaces, and that’s for good reason, given consumers’ awareness regarding data breaches and security. So, what is it exactly? Tokenization is what major payment networks like Visa, MasterCard, and Discover use to replace primary …

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Behind The Clearing House’s Effort to Bring Tokenization to Its Real Time And ACH Services

Against a background of emerging real-time payments and steady growth in automated clearing house transactions, The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC is working to mask those transfers with a technology the payment card business has used for years—tokenization. The job is enormous. “We’re just starting—it’s going to take time,” says …

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