Visa Inc. on Wednesday unveiled enhancements intended to further remove friction from the customers’ payment experience for merchants of all sizes. The enhancements, which are being launched on Visa’s Acceptance Platform, were developed in response to merchants’ needs for simpler implementation of payments technology, Visa says. The enhancements include Developer …
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Klarna Gets Set to Launch a New U.S. Credit Card ‘Over the Next Few Months’
The buy now, pay later specialist Klarna AB signaled its intention Wednesday to issue a new credit card in the U.S. market. The company said it has opened a waitlist for the product, which it calls a “new and improved Klarna Card.” The new Visa card, which does not offer …
Read More »As Data Drives Sales, Shift4 Adds A Business Intelligence Module to Its SkyTab POS System
Shift4 Payments Inc. says it has added a new business-intelligence module to its SkyTab POS platform for restaurants. The new module, aimed at dining establishments of any size, provides more granular data-filtering options for restaurants’ point-of-sale system, such as detailed transaction-management and revenue-center reporting. Chains can use the module to …
Read More »Aurora Releases the Arise Platform; FastSpring Adds Apple Pay and Pix
Evolving merchant expectations are a primary factor in Aurora Payments’ newly released Arise Payment Platform, which is intended to match sellers’ needs, says Brian Goudie, Aurora chief executive. Announced Tuesday, the Arise platform includes same-day onboarding capability, surcharging, cash discounting, and dual- pricing options, Aurora says. It also offers acceptance …
Read More »Nium’s New Zealand Expansion and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/16/24
Cross-border payments platform Nium has registered as a financial-service provider in New Zealand. The company, which maintains headquarters offices in San Francisco and Singapore, claims licenses and registrations in more than 40 countries. Payments provider Dejavoo announced a corporate rebranding and an overhauled Web site. Cigo Tracker, a delivery app, released a digital-tipping application …
Read More »Restaurant Price Strategies Come Under Fire As Advocates Push to Pass a Credit Card Bill
As restaurants turn to surcharging and dynamic pricing to offset rising operating costs, consumer backlash is raising concerns the practice could negatively affect customer loyalty and ultimately, restaurant profits. The backlash comes hard on the heels of the Electronic Payments Coalition’s attacks on restaurant surcharges and other price increases. The …
Read More »Eye on Bitcoin: Get Set for the Latest ‘Halving;” Bitcoin Depot Welcomes Investors for its Kiosk Deployments
Bitcoin was designed to be a medium of exchange, like dollars, but it has become over time more like an investment, such as gold. Now, Bitcoin investors and consumers alike face an event that will significantly affect the value of their holdings, drive up Bitcoin’s price, and affect the digital …
Read More »Henry Helgeson’s Return as a Payments Chief Executive Signals Bigger BlueSnap Ambitions
As a payments executive, he started an independent sales organization in 1998 that 19 years later would be acquired by Total System Services Inc. for $1.05 billion in cash. Now, more than four years since Henry Helgeson held a position at a payments company—other than as a board director or …
Read More »A Card Industry Group Cites Retailers’ Price Boosts And Surcharges in Its Latest Campaign to Stop the CCCA
A trade group representing card networks and issuers is taking aim at restaurant surcharges and price increases by large grocers as part of its efforts to defeat the Credit Card Competition Act. The Electronic Payments Coalition’s first salvo in its new campaign against the CCCA was fired last week. In …
Read More »As Dining Heats up, Toast And Qu Aim at Increasingly Larger Restaurant Operators
Restaurants are roaring again, and now the companies that enable digital payments for them are setting their sites on the biggest chains. Two major players, Toast Inc. and Qu POS Inc., separately announced early Thursday initiatives aimed at bolstering their positions with regional and national restaurateurs. The moves come as …
Read More »Despite BNPL’s Popularity, Overspending and Missed Payments Remain Top Issues, Bankrate Finds
Consumer demand for buy now, pay later loans may be high, but consumers are still at risk of overspending when using BNPL to finance a purchase or missing a payment. A survey released Thursday by Bankrate LLC reveals that overspending and missing a payment are two of the most common …
Read More »Embedded Payments Platform PayIt Aims at Hunters and Anglers Looking to Buy State Licenses
PayIt, a government-services platform and embedded-payments provider, has expanded its relationship with the Ohio Division of Wildlife to provide a digital-licensing system for hunters and fishermen. The deal is expected to offer a better process for online purchases and provide the agency’s staff with insights and tools to improve user …
Read More »Consumer Fraud Recovery Costs Rocket 70% in One Year
Rising costs aren’t just happening in grocery stores. They have caught up to fraud-recovery costs when consumers work to untangle the mess caused by identity theft and scams. The average out-of-pocket expense for a consumer in that situation ballooned 70% from $119 in 2022 to $202 in 2023, according to …
Read More »How Discover Looks to Reap Call-Center Efficiencies With Generative AI
The generative AI revolution received a significant boost from Discover Financial Services with the card network’s announcement early Tuesday it is deploying the artificial-intelligence technology within the Google Cloud platform in Discover’s call center. With the deployment, Discover’s nearly 10,000 customer-service agents will have access to intelligent document summarization through …
Read More »Mastercard Realigns Units and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/9/24
Mastercard Inc. announced an organizational realignment that centers on core payments, commercial and new payment flows, and services. Jorn Lambert will lead core payments as chief product officer. Raj Seshadri will head commercial and new payment flows as chief commercial payments officer. Craig Vosburg becomes the chief services officer in charge …
Read More »Consumers Don’t See Any Benefit from the Credit Card Bill, a Bankers’ Group Contends
Merchants and credit and debit card issuers have controlled the bulk of the narrative, pro and con, about the proposed Credit Card Competition Act since the legislation was reintroduced last year. But now a recent poll from Independent Community Bankers of America says that most consumers feel they would not …
Read More »Eye on Fraud: Oracle Puts AI to Work Against Laundering, While the UK Works to Stop Misdirected Checks
Payments fraud takes many forms, forcing banks and processors to adopt fresh tactics. But sometimes the technology to prevent fraud can be expensive enough to wipe out any near-term expectation of return. Early Monday, Oracle Corp. launched Oracle Financial Services Compliance Agent, a platform it says can leverage artificial intelligence …
Read More »Eye on AI: PayBlox Enlists AI for Statement Reviews; Colleen AI Tackles Rentals with Voice AI
The promise of lower credit and debit card processing fees is a big attraction for merchants to switch merchant providers. Statement reviews are a key part of that process and now PayBlox, a merchant services referral site, has enlisted artificial intelligence to help. With the debut of its Statement Spy …
Read More »Mobile Wallets and Contactless Payments Growing in Popularity, NFC Forum Says
Consumers are not only favoring contactless payments more, they are relying more on their mobile wallets to initiate payments, according to the NFC Forum’s bi-annual Near Field Communication Usage and Adoption study. The study, conducted by ABI Research, reveals that 95% of respondents have left their physical wallets at home …
Read More »Klarna Launches a Web Page to Rebut the Idea That BNPL Burdens Consumers With Debt
Looking to dispel criticism that buy now, pay later loans are predatory-lending products, BNPL provider Klarna AB has launched Wikipink, a Web page that details information about its BNPL business, such as repayment rates, late fee rates, and consumer demographics. “By publishing our facts and figures with full transparency, including …
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