News

February, 2016

• 25 February

  Sky’s the Limit for Amazon Payments As It Handles Onboard Purchases for Southwest

  Many consumers will find it easier to make onboard entertainment purchases when flying on Southwest Airlines Inc. now that the airline is accepting Pay with Amazon. Announced Wednesday, the service enables Southwest passengers who have stored payment data in their Amazon.com Inc. accounts to pay with those credentials. To pay for …
• 25 February

  With Its EMV Conversion Nearly Complete, Canada’s POS Debit Fraud Falls to New Low

  Canada’s Interac Association PIN-based debit card network once again is reporting lower fraud losses as the country’s conversion to the EMV chip card standard nears completion. The Toronto-based network said Thursday that fraud losses from skimming, in which card data are stolen from the magnetic stripe, to financial institutions that …
• 25 February

  Known for Its Mobile-Deposit App, Ingo Money Adds a Unique Check-Splitting Feature

  Ingo Money Inc. this week introduced a feature on its 3-year-old mobile app that allows users to split check deposits across multiple accounts, including bank accounts, prepaid cards, bill payments, and PayPal. Using Ingo’s decision engine and bank integrations, the feature also offers immediate, guaranteed funds availability. The feature works …
• 24 February

  Green Dot Launches New Products, Aims To Be a ‘Fin-Tech Powered Branchless Bank’

  Green Dot Corp. announced a number of a new products Wednesday and said it was getting into lending in order to generate new revenues and expand beyond its prepaid card base. Under pressure from a large investor to boost its bottom line and flagging stock price, Pasadena, Calif.-based Green Dot reported …
• 24 February

  Pin4 Extends Cardless ATM Withdrawals to Non-Bank ATM Operators

  HalCash North America is making its cardless-cash ATM service available in four U.S. cities prior to eventual national expansion later this year. Under the Pin4 moniker, the HalCash North America service enables consumers to securely send cash that recipients can retrieve at participating ATMs without having to insert a card …
• 23 February

  For the First Time, MasterCard Opens up MDES to a Third Party With G&D Deal

  Ever since MasterCard Inc. introduced its tokenization platform nearly 18 months ago, no third party has been allowed to offer the product, called the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service. That changed Tuesday with the company’s announcement that Giesecke & Devrient is connecting its Convego CloudPay platform to MDES and will be …
• 23 February

  Chase Pay Takes First Important Stride Forward With a Deal for Acceptance at 7,500 Starbucks Stores

  When JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced its own mobile wallet, Chase Pay, in October, it said the new payments service would begin rolling out by the middle of this year, and on Tuesday the money-center bank announced an important step in that direction. The fledgling service, which is up against …
• 22 February

  MasterCard And Visa Jockey To Cash in on Expected Jump in Payments on Wearables

  Payments made via so-called wearables are forecast to soar in the years to come, so Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. are positioning themselves to cash in with announcements made Monday at the huge Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. MasterCard unveiled a partnership with WiseKey, a Swiss company whose security …
• 22 February

  Tennessee Fee-Disclosure Law Forces Non-Bank Processors To Pull Out the Calculators

  A new Tennessee law governing merchants’ payment card contracts could create headaches for non-bank entities such as independent sales organizations and payment facilitators, merchant-acquiring industry sources say. The law will require processors on a monthly basis to list all fees assessed since the last statement. That’s certainly not unusual in …
• 22 February

  Thompson Investments Steps in to Acquire Troubled Powa Technologies

  Powa Technologies Ltd., the troubled startup behind PowaTag and the PowaPOS line of mobile point-of-sale gear, is being acquired by Thompson Investments, according to a terse announcement released late Friday. No terms were released. Before Thompson stepped in, London-based Powa Technologies had been reported to be close to appointing management consultancy …