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Paysafe’s Top Brass Notes Some Improvement But Adds Much Is ‘Yet to Be Done’

Bruce Lowthers has been a man on a mission since taking over as chief executive at a struggling Paysafe Ltd. nearly two years ago, and early on Thursday he laid out an agenda for the work his company has yet to do. While he touted some improvement so far, “there …

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PayPal Adds Tap to Pay on iPhone And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/7/24

PayPal Holdings Inc. said Tap to Pay on iPhone is available for all Venmo business profile and PayPal Zettle users in the United States. Tap to Pay on iPhone enables merchants to accept contactless payments using an iPhone with no extra hardware, only a payments app. The service had been in …

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Follet Partners with GK Software; Transact Rolls Out a B2B Portal

Follet Higher Education, an educational service provider and omnichannel retailer, has selected GK Software SE as its cloud-based point-of-sale provider for its more than 1,000 college campus and online stores in the United States and Canada. Follet will deploy such apps as GK Software’s OmniPOS, which supports mobile POS, self-check-out, …

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An Active Year Helps Boost Results for Canada’s Nuvei

The big Montreal-based processor Nuvei Corp. has had a busy year since its headline acquisition early in 2023 of Atlanta-based Paya Holdings Inc., and late on Tuesday it disclosed how that activity has helped buoy its financial results. Nuvei, which was known until 2018 as Pivotal Payments, reported it processed …

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PayRange Battles Alleged Patent Misuse And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/6/24

Unattended payments specialist PayRange Inc. said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against CSC ServiceWorks, an operator of laundry machines in multi-family housing and college dorms. This is in addition to a previous patent infringement suit it filed in March 2023 against CSC ServiceWorks. In the new suit, PayRange seeks more than …

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Eye on Restaurants: SpotOn Adds a Marketing App; IHG Hotels & Resorts Partners With eTip

Payment technology provider SpotOn Transact LLC looks to expand its footprint in the highly competitive business of restaurant payments with the introduction of SpotOn Marketing Assist, an app that automates email and social-media marketing campaigns for restaurants. The app—which integrates with Spot On’s SpotOn Restaurant POS, SpotOn Order, and SpotOn …

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CFPB’s New Card Late Fees Cap and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/5/24

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule that caps late fees on credit card payments to $8, down from a typical $32. The rule goes into effect 60 days following its publication in the Federal Register. Other provisions include ending automatic annual inflation adjustment on the fee and requiring larger card …

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Eye on Travel: AmEx’s New Virtual Card Integration for Small-Business Travel and Expenses; IHG Hotels Endorses Grazzy for Digital Tipping

American Express Co. unveiled on Monday a new virtual card integration with AmEx Global Business Travel’s Neo1 platform for travel and spending management. And digital-tipping software developer Grazzy Inc. said IHG Hotels and Resorts has named it as an approved partner for providing tips to hotel employees electronically. The AmEx …

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Galileo’s RTP Addition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/4/24

Galileo Financial Technologies expanded its relationship with The Bancorp Bank NA that now includes access to the RTP network, the real-time payments service from The Clearing Payments Co. LLC. Apple Inc. was hit with a $2 billion fine by the European Union over its European app store payment practices, CNN reported. Synchrony …

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Newly Independent NCR Voyix Reports Platform Growth

In its first earnings report since its split from the former NCR Corp., point-of-sale and digital-commerce technology provider NCR Voyix Corp. on Thursday said it added 14,000 sites to its platform in 2023. Atlanta-based NCR Voyix’s platform handles payments, business-management and marketing functions for retailers, restaurants, and banks, and the …

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