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COMMENTARY: Cap One’s Bid for Discover Will Lift Many Boats

Capital One’s proposed $35.3-billion acquisition of Discover will be a thunderclap for the debit-card, retail-banking, and payment-network markets. The Discover network has long been the number-five U.S. retail-payment network, after Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and PayPal. Since its acquisition of Diners Club from Citi in 2008, Discover has struggled as …

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ParkHub and JustPark Combo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/22/24

Parking management and payment providers ParkHub said it will merge with JustPark, a United Kingdom-based parking reservations and payments platform. Dallas-based ParkHub said the new organization serves more than 20 million drivers and more than 500 business-to-business clients representing more than $1 billion in booking volume. Terms were not disclosed. Payments provider North …

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JPMorgan Retains Its Top Acquiring Spot in TSG’s Annual Review

TSG’s yearly review of more than 300 U.S. merchant acquirers is out, and there is little surprise that JPMorgan Chase & Co. retains the top spot with an estimated 2023 U.S. processing volume of $2.4 trillion. While the top three slots in the annual TSG Directory of U.S. Merchant Acquirers …

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Nuvei Could Be in Play To Be Taken Private by Advent International

Montreal-based Nuvei Corp. early Monday issued a statement confirming it has received interest from potential investors and has created a “special committee” of independent directors to review “expressions of interest” regarding offers to take the company private, as well as other “strategic alternatives.” Private-equity firm Advent International Corp. is making …

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FIS Enlists AI in Fraud Detection And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/18/24

FIS Inc. said its SecurLock service, working with artificial-intelligence technology from the fintech Stratyfy, is set to increase the volume of card transactions accurately identified as fraudulent, allowing clients to stop the transactions before they are consummated. FIS said the technology “was able to deliver a significant improvement of accurately identified …

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FedNow User Group Formed and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/15/24

The Federal Reserve launched a user group for the 607 financial institutions that have signed on so far to participate in FedNow, the real-time payments network the regulator launched last summer with 35 participants, a count that had reached 400 by January. All live financial institutions and certified service providers are eligible …

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Blockbuster Deals Aside, a Slower M&A Trend Continues to Grip the Payments Industry 

The news nearly three weeks ago that Capital One Financial Corp. is looking to acquire Discover Financial Services stunned the payments industry. But even if the $35.3-billion deal closes in the coming months it will represent a notable exception in the middle of a continuing slowdown in merger-and-acquisition activity in …

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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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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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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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Is Shift4 Seeking a Buyer? News Reports Say So, But the Company Stays Mum

Shift4 Payments Inc. went public in June 2020 after more than two decades as a privately held processor, but now its senior management may be looking for greater returns via an acquisition by an outside company. Both the processing giant Fiserv Inc. and a Spain-based reservations-processing company called Amadeus could …

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Play Ball! Shift4 Lands Yankee Stadium; Sound Payments Adds Boarding And Deployment Services

With 29 days until Major League Baseball’s opening day on March 28, the New York Yankees have selected Shift4 Payments Inc. as the team’s concessions and retail sales point-of-sale system provider. Announced Wednesday, the deal will see Shift4 payment technology deployed at Yankee Stadium and at the George M. Steinbrenner …

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Post Worldpay, FIS Looks to Share Buybacks And Growth in Digital Payments

Having completed on Feb. 1 a 55% spin-off of its massive Worldpay processing operation, FIS Inc. is now looking to concentrate on priorities including digital banking, real-time payments, and share buybacks, the company’s top executives said early Monday. Nor is the big Jacksonville, Fla.-based processor ignoring its potential gains from …

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For Cap One, the Pulse Network Is the ‘Rare Asset’ in Its $35.3 Billion Deal for Discover

(Editor’s Note: This story follows up on news late Monday concerning a planned acquisition of Discover Financial Services by Capital One Financial Corp.) On the Tuesday morning after news broke that credit card giant Capital One Corp. intends to shell out $35.3 billion in an all-stock deal to acquire Discover …

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Capital One May Acquire Discover. What Could That Mean?

Capital One Financial Corp. may be on the brink of acquiring Discover Financial Services, if two news reports are accurate. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.com separately reported on Monday a deal between the two credit card juggernauts is in the offing, with The Journal reporting an announcement could come …

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Global’s ‘Profac’ Model Starts Paying Dividends for Its Acquiring Business

A new tactic Global Payments Inc. began pursuing last year is delivering continuing benefits for the company as its merchant-solutions unit saw year-over-year point-of-sale volume growth of around 20% in the fourth quarter, top management at the big Atlanta-based processor said early Wednesday. Much of the credit for the growth …

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FIS’s Pay by Bank Path And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/14/24

FIS Inc. said it is working with Banked, an open-banking provider, to develop new pay by bank services for businesses and consumers. Gateway provider Trice Technologies Inc. said it is a technology provider and real-time payments gateway for the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC. Web services and payments provider GoDaddy …

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Payroc Beefs Up Its Presence in Canada With Its Deal for SterlingCard

Payments-platform provider Payroc LLC has expanded its footprint in Canada through its acquisition of SterlingCard Payment Solutions Inc., a provider of retail and e-commerce payment solutions, for an undisclosed sum. Tinley Park, Ill.-based Payroc announced mid-day Tuesday it had closed on the deal. The acquisition enables Payroc to offer a …

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Affinipay’s Tap-to-Pay Play And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/6/24

AffiniPay, a specialist in payments for professional offices, launched a refreshed version of its In-Person-Payments service featuring new payments devices that include tap-to-pay functionality. Fiserv Inc.’s Small Business Index for January remained unchanged from December at 138. Year-over-year sales grew 1.7%, down from December’s 2.6% rate. The Index, introduced in January, measures …

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