Mike Peters, formerly chief executive of TSYS Merchant Solutions, is succeeding Robert O. Carr, who said last week he would step down as chief executive of Beyond Inc., the payments provider he founded in 2017. A longtime payments-industry veteran, Carr remains executive chairman of the Princeton, N.J.-based company. Peters, whose …
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Nearly four days after mega-processor Total System Services’ platform went offline, independent sales organizations that use the TSYS platform remain in the dark as to how and why the outage occurred. The outage, which has been described as a nationwide event for TSYS, occurred Saturday night and prevented TSYS, as …
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Payments provider Global Payments Inc. announced consulting firm PwC will be a charter member of Global’s TSYS Partner Program, an initiative aimed at developing business partnerships with companies globally.CloudPay Inc., a payroll-processing provider, launched CloudPay Now, a service allowing multinational companies to provide earned-wage access globally.InComm Payments will process prepaid card transactions online …
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The recent ranswomware attack on the big payments processor TSYS could portend worse to come for the payments business as cyber criminals seek vulnerabilities in the industry and carry out new tactics to squeeze out ransom payments from their victims. More attacks on credit and debit processors are “absolutely” coming, …
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Total System Services Inc. (TSYS) officially became part of Global Payments Inc. only on Sept. 18, but the massive task of stitching two large payment processors together didn’t stop Global from buying yet another financial institution’s merchant portfolio. Global announced Thursday that it will acquire the entire 40,000-merchant file of …
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The recently completed acquisition of Total System Services Inc. (TSYS) by Global Payments Inc. is “the best of the bunch” among the three megamergers in the payment-processing industry this year, investment research firm Morningstar Inc. says in a new report. The Global-TSYS deal “has the most capacity to reduce costs …
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