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Tap to Pay in North America And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/27/23

Payments-technology provider Aevi said it is working with contactless-technology firm Bleu to offer tap-to-pay functionality in North America and Europe on both Android and iPhone devices. Cross River Bank said it will enable an expanded menu of payment options through open-banking platform Plaid, including instant transfers for payroll and other applications. Payments provider Lightspeed …

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Euronet’s Growth And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/26/23

Payments provider Euronet Worldwide Inc. said its money-transfer segment handled 41.1 million transactions in the second quarter, up 10% from 37.3 million a year earlier. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates national banks, assessed a $15 million civil fine against American Express Co.’s American Express National …

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Can Visa+ Transform P2P Payments?

Peer-to-peer transfers have turned into big business, but one nagging problem remains: there’s no interoperability between networks. Visa is forging a solution, though there are complications.  Peer-to-peer payments have in a relatively short period of time become ingrained in consumers’ daily lives. Whether it’s sending a family member birthday cash, …

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Travel Chargebacks up 71% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/27/23

Travel companies experienced a 71% growth in chargebacks in the past few years, according to the “Tackling the Travel Chargeback Challenge” report from Outpayce from Amadeus, a global travel company. The survey canvassed 46 airline and travel agent executives in the second quarter. The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. started an industry forum …

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How Will FedNow Unfold?

FedNow is set for commercial launch next month, but if you’re wondering how the Federal Reserve’s shiny new real-time payments service is going to be used and what it will cost, just look at how early participants are putting it to work now. As Digital Transactions learned this spring, the …

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Real-Time Payments Fraud on the Rise And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/10/23

Real-time payment fraud is on the rise, even before the expected July launch of the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service. Some 71% of financial institutions reported an increase in consumer account takeover fraud using real-time payment networks from 2021 to 2022, according to a February and March survey of financial-institution executives internationally …

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15th Annual Field Guide to Innovative Payments

It’s May, and that means it’s time for our annual exercise to seek out and describe the payments players, apart from the big networks, that are rewriting the rules for the digital exchange of value. Since 2004, Digital Transactions has traced the course of payments innovation through its nimblest practitioners—the …

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‘We’re Well-Positioned’ for FedNow, Says Mastercard’s CEO

The impending arrival of a commercial real-time payments service from no less an entity than the Federal Reserve will be a major event, but one Mastercard Inc.’s top brass says the card company will take in stride. “We’ll have to wait and see how it plays out, we’re well-positioned,” Michael …

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As FedNow Gears up for Its July Launch, Specific Applications Beckon, Including Payroll

The official launch of FedNow as a commercial service is set for July, but already the nation’s banking regulator, along with observers, have seen a pattern in where initial participants have been using the real-time payments service. “We’re starting to see more activity around business-to-consumer [payments], related to payroll front …

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The Fed Zeros in on July for the Launch of the FedNow Real-Time Payments Service

The Federal Reserve late Wednesday narrowed the launch window for its FedNow real-time payments network to July of this year. The move comes seven months after the banking regulator announced it would introduce the service some time between May and July. Formal certification of system participants will start the first …

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