Thursday , March 28, 2024

Debit Cards

GoDaddy Says It Will Integrate Early Warning’s New Paze Online Checkout, Now Coming in 2024

Paze, an online wallet still in development, will be available to merchants using GoDaddy Inc.’s Web services. Paze is available for testing to select U.S. businesses on the GoDaddy platform. In March, at the announcement of Paze, Early Warning Services LLC, its developer, said full availability would arrive this autumn, …

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Slake’s Delivery App Supports Crypto Payments; Visa’s Billions in Crypto Volume Since 2021

Slake IT LLC on Monday launched a food-delivery app that enables consumers to pay for orders using cryptocurrency in addition to credit cards. The company, which is supporting the Ethereum platform to enable crypto payments, has partnered with drivers of multiple food-delivery companies, including DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, to …

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Rainforest Raises $11.75 Million And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/9/23

Rainforest, an Atlanta-based platform for embedded payments, has closed on an $11.75-million seed funding round led by Accel. Beverly, Mass., has contracted with Passport for support of mobile payments for parking in the town. Passport claims more than 800 cities and other entities using the app. Instant Financial, a provider of earned-wage …

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Pricing Rules Are at the Heart of a New Class-Action Lawsuit Against PayPal

A new lawsuit filed Thursday against PayPal Holdings Inc. alleges the online powerhouse uses illegally anticompetitive policies that increase costs for consumers. Filed by Hagens Berman, a law firm that specializes in class-action litigation, the suit contends that PayPal prohibits merchants that work with it to offer pricing discounts when …

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PayPal Makes Good on Its Apple Pay Card Vow

Almost a year after vowing to make its PayPal- and Venmo-branded credit and cards available in Apple Wallet, PayPal Holdings Inc. has come through on that promise. With the move, announced Wednesday, eligible PayPal and Venmo cards can be added to Apple Wallet by tapping the “Add Debit or Credit” …

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Experian Launches a Checking Account With a Debit Card in a Move to Boost Credit Scores Faster

Experian PLC on Monday launched its Smart Money digital checking account and debit card. The product is part of the credit bureau’s strategy to offer consumers with no or minimal credit histories an opportunity to quickly build a credit score. To that end, Experian has embedded in the new product …

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Visa’s Friendly Fraud Rule Change Could Cut $1 Billion From Small Firms’ Chargeback Costs

Visa Inc. is touting recent changes to how chargebacks that could be first-party fraud, also known as friendly fraud, are processed as potentially saving small businesses globally $1 billion in costs over the next five years. Expectations are that the streamlined process will increase merchants’ ability to provide more accurate …

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TNS Lines up 1,500 ATMs Contract And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/29/23

U.S.-based network-management company Transaction Network Services said its technology will manage connectivity for Spain-based Euro Automatic Cash, a network of 1,500 ATMs. Tiptap, a donation platform, said it will enable Visa member financial institutions to offer customers a platform to make small donations to community charities while they are performing routine banking …

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Eye on Block: Citcon Adds Cash App Pay and Afterpay; Square’s New Sales Features Target Holiday Shopping

Citcon USA LLC, an e-commerce wallet-technology provider, is adding Block Inc.’s Cash App Pay and Afterpay buy now, pay later payment methods to its inventory of merchant options. In related news, Block’s Square point-of-sale unit is bolstering merchant selling tools with new online features. Citcon’s integration of Cash App Pay, …

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Mercedes pay+ Adds Mastercard to Its In-Car Payment Service

Automaker Mercedes-Benz is enabling in-car fuel payments for users of its Mercedes pay+ service. Announced Monday, the service also integrates Mastercard Inc.’s Secure Card on File for Commerce Platform technology. Available initially only on select Mercedes models in Germany, the fuel payment app joins a parking-payment app the giant carmaker …

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